Music => Vinyl Grooves => Topic started by: BSD2000 on January 04, 2012, 06:14:47 AM
Title: Too cold to listen to my vinyl :(
Post by: BSD2000 on January 04, 2012, 06:14:47 AM
Some of you may not know this; my entire vinyl collection and turntable is setup on my enclosed back porch. It's air conditioned in the summer, but in the winter I either have to fire up my kerosene heater or plug in a small electric heater to keep warm. Right now, it's 9F(!) degrees outside and the porch temp is currently 41F degrees. Some heat from the house does warm the porch up, but not enough to beat back the cold since the porch is not as insulated as the house. The wrap-around windows on the porch also add to the cold getting in. When I do fire up the kerosene heater, it may take a few hours until the temperature settles to a comfortable 72F. I get about 10 hours of run time from a gallon of fuel, which isn't bad, but kerosene prices have been creeping up lately.
Plus, my Zyx cartridges absolutely HATE the cold. The cantilever suspension toughens up and the playback sounds thin and harsh until it fully warms up, which can take a while. All of this makes filming Youtube videos or recording/listening to my turntable a pain the the butt during the winter months. I would love to move the turntable inside but I don't have the room right now.
Later this week the temperature is supposed to warm up a bit so I should have a chance to get out there and finish filming a few videos I was working on. One of the videos is Boston's 'More Than a Feeling' from a Friday Music 180g reissue. Friday Music releases are generally decent (with the exception of Queensryche - Empire) and the Boston reissue surprised me.
Title: Re: Too cold to listen to my vinyl :(
Post by: lshin80 on January 05, 2012, 07:30:09 AM
Haha yeah I can see that. My music room is also exposed to low temperatures during winter, and here at the Alps foot, winters can be quite rigid. I didn't notice any change in the Denon 110 behaviour, but I have two cheap Persian style carpets on the floor that work as bass frequencies dampeners, and when it's cold, the fibers in the carpets shrink back, absorbing much more bass, and thus turning down the general listening volume. I have to turn up the volume knobs about 2 or 3 marks, compared to summer and hotter periods. And once a week I have to clean the carpets with a dust buster to open up the fibers.
I'm waiting for the Boston video :) I have a USA first pressing, very disappointing...the drums on More Than A Feeling are basically muted :(
Title: Re: Too cold to listen to my vinyl :(
Post by: BSD2000 on January 05, 2012, 08:00:32 AM
Here's another track from the Friday Music reissue: