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LP - first needle drop or 2nd or 3rd??

Been recording my LP’s  to cd for quite a while,
  recently bought the Coven box set (which is simply beautiful, never bought such an amazing box set)
 felt box, flag, heavy pristine LP’s, signed numbered certificate by Jinx, one of the best box sets I’ve ever purchased.

Anyway, question is: would I get the best sound from the first play, or play them all once or twice, to get the proper groove cut, and get the LP’s accustomed to my stylus, and record at the 2nd play?

 P.s. the Coven band predated the first Black Sabbath album by 4 months.
first song is titled Black Sabbath,   Hhhhmmmmmmm.......

first occult album is by Coven, it’s a stellar release, if you haven’t heard of them, worth a listen.
 Parents had 2 Coven records, I remember as a kid, traded them being dumb?
 Box set is simply amazing!!
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audioguy85
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Better off recording to a high quality cassette tape using an equally high quality cassette deck, preferably a 3 head deck. Some examples would be an Aiwa fd 770 or 990 ( mine) or a nakamichi dragon. This keeps it all analog. Better yet, buy 2 or 3 copies of the albums you like best, will take a lifetime to wear them all out. For example, I believe I own 3-4 copies of Nancy Sinatra country my way, as I play it regularly and happen to love the record. 
vinowino
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I have many LPs I bought in the '60's  Jimmy Witherspoon, Lightnin Hopkins, Beatles, Stones, John Mayall and on and on.
I still play them regularly (played lightnin last night) They are as good as ever. In fact sound better now with set up I can afford in my retired years.
My cart is 1.7 g on the vinyl, barely touching , how can it wear at all?
mcmvmx
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The type of diamond needle you use does leave traces in the groove of the lp producing noise . Depending on the type they ride on different levels of the groove .

Be it conical , eliptical or line contact . Conical because of its shape and size tend to track the groove on its upper part of the groove . Eliptical goes deeper tracking the groove in a lower level of the groove and because of this tracks information which the conical shape misses .

Line contact because of its shape is capable of tracing very deep in the groove and because of its shape can pickup information on the upper levels of the groove walls . With all three levels noise developes over time . Changing the type of needle used as from conical to eliptical minimizes the noise because you will be tracing a different level . 


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asvjerry
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Why not go direct to a hard drive?  Then you can dupe to CD, cassette, wax cylinder.....

Just kidding on the last...;)
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clearthinker
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Why have LPs and listen on CD??

You should copy at the highest resolution available.

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