(Krautrock) [LP][24/96] La Dusseldorf - La Düsseldorf - 1976 (Original pressing), FLAC (tracks)

La Dusseldorf – S/T {Original German Pressing} | 96kHz & 44.1kHz Final Master Vinyl Rip

Posted by pbthal @ February 20th, 2012

Vinyl Ripping Process/Equipment

Vinyl Cleaning Process:

* 3 Liter Ultrasonic Cleaner (Tap water with Sporicidin) on custom rotating assembly at 1 RPM for one hour
* Vacuum off with Nitty Gritty
* AIVS Premium Record Cleaner Formula No. 15 applied with Mofi Brush while rotating on VPI 16.5
* McCulloch MC-1275 Heavy-Duty Steam Cleaner applied with Mofi Brush while rotating on VPI 16.5
* Vacuum off with VPI 16.5
* L’Art du Son Record Cleaning Fluid applied with VPI Bristle brush
* Vacuum off with VPI 16.5
* Whole Foods Deionized Water applied with Mofi Brush (Separate from AIVS Mofi Brush)
* Vacuum off with VPI 16.5
* Flip record and repeat
* Place record on Plate Demgnetizer

Turntable Equipment Profile:

* VPI Scoutmaster with inverted bearing and 300 RPM motor
* VPI Center Record Weight
* VPI Periphery Ring Clam
* Gingko Cloud 11 Vibration Control Platform
* VPI Synchronous Drive System turntable motor speed controller and line isolator
* Trans-Fi Audio Terminator T3Pro tangential tracking air bearing tonearm
* Zyx Airy 3X-SB cartridge

Phono Stage Profile:

* Musical Surroundings Phonomena Phono Preamplifier
* Musical Surroundings Battery Power Supply

Analog/Digital Convertion:

* E-MU 1212M (the 1212M contains the same A/D converters used in Digidesign’s ProTools HD 192 I/O interface)
* Adobe Audition 3.01 running on Windows XP in a Shuttle PC form factor

Post Processing Of Audio:

* Run thru ClickRepair(if necessary) at level 7 with
* Pitch Protection | off
* Reverse | on
* Simple
* Resample to 96khz in Izotope Rx2 using the default preset
* Manually listen to album in Adobe Audition cleaning any clicks/anomalies
* Flac with Xrecode II for hi-rez files
* Flac with Trader’s Little Helper for redbook files

What is this Final Master stuff?
After years of trying to improve both my ripping/cleaning process and upgrading my equipment to a level I feel comfortable sticking with I am proud to present these final versions of the best sources I can find.So I am happy to say that more than likely this is the last mother fucking copy you are ever going to need…or your money back

Wonderful original pressing on loan from Germany