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Name: sound library – Stereo Test Record (LP)
Brand: Hi-Fi Sound
SKU: HFS 81
Price: 14.70 EUR
Availability: OutOfStock

Stereo Test Record (LP)

LabelHi-Fi Sound

FormatLP

GenreLibrary/Soundtracks

Out of stock

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1981 technical audiophile record on Hi-Fi Sound with test sounds for diagnostic testing, cartridge alignment and system calibration of vinyl turntables. Cover eventually 'imitated' by Stereolab.

condition (record/cover): NM / EX

Gatefold sleeve.

Issued by the British magazine Hi-Fi Sound for its readers in the late sixties: a record of tones, sweeps, channel-identification announcements, tracking tests and a few musical excerpts, designed to let the home listener diagnose a turntable and a pair of speakers without instruments. The voice announcing "left channel" in received pronunciation is, half a century on, as evocative as any of the music in this sale.

Test records are the purest form of sound library, sound with no content but itself, and this one is a good, clean example from the golden age of the British hi-fi press. UK pressing, HFS series.

Details

File under: Sound Effects

Cat. number: HFS 81

Year: 1981

Release notes

Each complete test or group of test ends with a locked groove. Intensive notes are found on the sleeve for each test, care of records, about this record and Ambisonics. Although the sleeve states that 'The master disc was cut at Strawberry Mastering, London, on a Neumann lathe fitted with an Ortofon cutter head', Side A was in fact cut by Tape One, as evidenced by the runout etchings.

Tracklist

Test 1: Channel Recognition And Phasing
A1a		Band A: Left And Right Channel Identification
A1b		Band B: Phasing Check, Signals In Phase
A1		Band C: Phasing Check, Signals Out Of Phase
Test 2: Lateral Modulation For Determination Of Tracking Pressure In Conjunction With Bias Correction
A2a		Band A: +8dB Ref. Nominal 5cm/sec RMS
A2b		Band B: +11dB Ref. Nominal 5cm/sec RMS
A2c		Band C: +14dB Ref. Nominal 5cm/sec RMS
Test 3: Vertical Modulation For Determination Of Tracking Pressure In Conjunction With Bias Correction
A3a		Band A: +2dB Ref. Nominal 5cm/sec RMS
A3b		Band B: +5dB Ref. Nominal 5cm/sec RMS
A3c		Band C: +8dB Ref. Nominal 5cm/sec RMS
Test 4: Pickup Output, Channel Balance, Separation
A4a		Band A: Left Channel 1,000Hz, 5cm/sec Lateral
A4b		Band A: Right Channel 1,000Hz, 5cm/sec Lateral
A5		Test 5: Determination Of Bias Correction Test At Inner Grooves Of The Disc
Test 1: Ambisonic Tests
B1a		Band A: Test For Determining The Accuracy Of Directional Information Resulting From Ambisonic UHJ Decoding
B1b		Band B: Setting-up Signal For Ambisonic Surround-sound Decoders
B2		Test 2: Pink Noise
B3		Test 3: White Noise
B4		Test 4: Wow And Flutter - Test Tone
B5		Test 5: Pickup Resonance Test
B6		Test 6: Rumble Test - Unmodulated Grooves