voice check

[Bill13]

This might be hard to explain in a post but it relates to voice quality of certain vinyls that I would expect to have great voice quality.

Let me begin by saying that last night I replayed a mintish Mobile Fidelity Dark Side of the moon and I found the vocalist's voice (what else would a vocalist have!!) to be for a lack of better word
"grainy" and "distant" not pure and smooth and upfront.

I thought it was my set up: 2300, 275s, Elipsa SE, MT10 but when I put SADE on or the new Nightfly on it sounded beautiful. Several of my older Jazz albums have a similar voice effect as the
Pink Floyd album has.

Is it just the way they recorded it or could I be missing an issue?

 

[Petro85]

first thing i always check is tracking weight, sometimes a record needs the cartridge to be a little heavier or lighter. too light and everything is grainy, too heavy and everything is muffled. those 200g records are also one that i would put a little extra weight on sometimes.
i run most of my records at 2.3g but some i push it up to close to the 2.5g mark. and real thin ones i run at around 2.25g, just sound the best that way.
im not the scientific guy but those thick records make the cartridge and arm stand a little straighter which makes them track a little lighter. there could be more but that is always my problem and an easy fix.
wow bill looking at your sig i just realized what a serious mac guy you are.

 

[dlb2]

I think a lot of it has to do with how it's recorded. I have a Wilco record that has the vocals sounding different from song to song. One song has them nice and clean and open and perfectly integrated with the rest of the instruments. Another song has the vocals sounding like Tweedy is laying in an old cast iron bathtub with the mics down the hall covered in plastic wrap. Okay, maybe that's laying it on a bit thick but whoever was in the control room during the sessions didn't record them with the same settings, or even close to it.

 

[Bill13]

I think the Pink Floyd Dark Side Mobile Fidelity probably is "grainy" particularly the money cut. Does anyone agree?
I would hate to have to change the tracking wieght with the MT10. There is no guage on it.