Knoa Sudden Twists & Turns 1978 Opus 3 78-01 Swedish Audiophile Play Tested NM

Description: Knoa. Sudden Twists And Turns. Opus 3 78-01. Swedish Audiophile Label. Recording aim is to reproduce voices and instruments as natural as possible. Item Details Manufactured in: Sweden Recorded: March 25,26 1978 Lacquer Cut By: Peter Strindberg At The Cutting Room, Stockholn Sweden Pressing By: Grammoplast AB, Spanga Sweden. Original Issue: 1978 This Issue: 1978 Label: Ous 3 78-01 Runout Deadwax Matrix Numbers: Side 1: (stamp:) OP 7801 A CR GP 1 Side 2: (stamp:) OP 7801 B CR GP Was bought new by this seller many years ago and now offered from his private collection (you have absolutely known provenance). Has had just a few plays only on an expertly setup high-end audiophile turntable, arm, and cartridge. Has never been exposed to heat or tobacco smoke and always stored vertically in a specially designed record cabinet (Rackit brand) to prevent warpage. All vinyl sides are cleaned on a VPI HW-16.5 record cleaner. I use the Audio Intelligent "One-Step" formula that requires no rinsing and leaves no residue. It is alcohol free and uses enzyme agents to remove pressing mold-release compounds, fungi & bacteria, finger oils, and many other environmental contaminants. Made with laboratory-grade pure water(50X purer than distilled water). I neutralize residual static charge from both vinyl and new inner sleeve with a Milty Zerostat. I wear nitrile surgical gloves while cleaning and play testing to avoid any chance of transferring finger oils to the vinyl. Very sensitive play testing was performed straight off my Ayre P-5xe fully balanced phono preamp over Sennheiser HD 600 headphones using a Schiit Audio Valhalla 2 tube headphone amp fitted with NOS Soviet Voskhod matched tubes (see last photo). Track list For track listings, please see my attached record label photographs. I take close-ups under photo lamps so you can see nearly everything I describe in the jacket grading. After cleaning I use very bright light and close visual inspection on each side to assign "visual-only" grades. However, I always perform play testing with thorough coverage on high resolution equipment to assign play grades. Grading Details Note: Grading LPs by text characters is subjective and at best are only a guide as no two used records are of exactly the same quality. I do not use "EX" grades as my VG+ is right below "NM-." I never sell a "G" play grade and very rarely ever sell a "VG" play grade. Please, refer to both my photo evidence and detailed descriptions to judge by YOUR OWN grading standards. Questions are always welcome. Play quality is personally most important to me so vinyl visual qualities are separately graded and described in detail for your complete assessment. Outer Jacket Inspection/grading: (Front Face/Rear Face) NM/NM Both sides have no visible flaws. Vinyl Visual Inspection/Grading: (Side 1/Side 2) NM/NM Both sides looked perfect. Both labels do have LAST protective vinyl wear prevention treatment stickers on them. I usually treated my new vinyl with LAST before the very first play. Play Testing/Grading: (Side A/Side B) NM+/NM+ Extensive play testing was performed after visual inspection (continuous written notes were taken). I listen to the beginning, middle, and end of each track for a few minutes on each needle drop. When the track width is noticeably greater I take more play samples to get good coverage. I also listen to all lead-in, lead-out and transition grooves between each track. Some tracks get played all the way through if I digitize my favorites to 96k/24-bit WAV files for archiving. That allows me to go back and re-check some of my notes on digital playback in ProTools. Here is rundown of each side from those notes. Side A Play The center hole is tighter than average. I don't think I ever played this album more than about 2 times so that doesn't surprise me. It also lays very flat on my TT. All tracks were exceptionally clean. The transition grooves were some of the quietest I have heard in all my play testing and this explains why the music is so clean. It didn't even have that "LF rolling wind noise" at the bottom that is typically present in most transition grooves. I'd say the pressing was at the state of the art for 1978 vinyl technology. T5 was the gentlest music played at the lowest volume and the vinyl background was very silent. So impressed I gave it a "+". Side 2 Play Like Side A. the pressing quality on all tracks was exceptionally clean, even for T2 which was the gentlest played and at the lowest recording volume. So, another VG+. Non-conventional jazz featuring acoustic bass and guitar with strings and percussion was realistically recorded, mixed, and mastered. Also manufactured with an exceptional pressing quality. Packaging Records are placed outside the jacket to protect against seam splitting. Original inner sleeves (if still present) are included separately. All records will be placed into new MFSL-style "rice paper" plastic sleeves. Any original sleeves may be holding onto some dust and if paper lined could even be abrasive. This will keep vinyl surfaces clean and well protected during shipping and ultimately during buyer usage. Outer jacket is contained in a new clear polyethylene protective sleeve. Sent in high quality record mailer with cardboard stiffeners and all corners double-taped. Shipping Shipping will be via USPS Media Mail for a flat charge of $4.75 per single album sale. eBay keeps raising the rates for Media Mail but I still don't pass all of that or any costs for shipping materials on to the buyer. I do try to reduce additional costs for my customers. A combined shipping discount is available on multiple sales completed on the same day ($4.75 plus $0.50 for each additional LP). If you do buy more than one LP on the same daydo not pay immediately but wait for my all-combined with the discount applied to your total.eBay does give you the option to "Request an invoice from the buyer," but this option is not available on the eBay mobile app. A discount for the combined items will show on that invoice. Then, once payment is received, the items will ship.

Price: 11 USD

Location: El Dorado Hills, California

End Time: 2025-01-17T02:30:01.000Z

Shipping Cost: 4.75 USD