Tacet Vinyl Check: New Signals and Recordings to Test and Adjust Vinyl Equipment

This record creates new possibilities of inspecting and adjusting record players. Most tests (except for frequency response) can also be carried out without measuring instruments, just by listening, and are therefore particularly well-suited for the ambitious music listener who wants to know how well his system deals with demanding signals under realistic conditions, and whether there is a need for repairs or improvements.
This LP gives the listener means to decide with his own ears and mostly (except for the frequency response) without measuring instruments how well his system works or sounds. Tacet has come up with quite a few novel tones and signals to systematically test the quality of an LP system. Some of them go to the limit of what vinyl technology can do at all.
The LP was created in collaboration with the Analogue Audio Association and with the help of Daniel Krieger of SST Schneidtechnik.
Tacet thanks Albrecht Krieger for his ideas and advice.

Features:

• Test LP
• 180g Vinyl

Selections:

Side A
1. Tracking ability
2. Wow and flutter
3. Phase
4. Crosstalk
5. Tracking angle error
6. Skating
7. Pick-up arm resonance
Side B
1. Strident sibilants and fricatives
2. Frequency response
3. Dynamics
4. Strident sibilants and fricatives, repetition