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I really don't understand why sellers are putting so much denoiser on the encodings they do to make a clip for their sales. It is so obvious that it is ridiculous.

Seriously, who wants to buy a record which sound like this :
http://tinyurl.com/48f6ns
or http://tinyurl.com/4ukuvy
(found on ebay)

We know that it doesn't sound like this. It's very simple : when you encode, you can use a basic denoiser to get rid of the clics and present a record as EX. But basically, this denoiser is a low-pass filter and just cut all dynamics. It results in a chewing-gum encoding, that impression is it recorded through a pipe.

Maybe the record sounds EX but it's impossible to know and in those cases, I just don't buy because this just prove the seller is not totally honest.

So to all the sellers, stop using denoiser, it's not in your interest !

name and shame those sellers ton1!

Doesn't sound like noise reduction to me, more like cell phone recording from 'open air' (recording from speakers instead of direct audio from the turntable). Some sellers do that, always sounds like sh*t

http://tinyurl.com/4tfyfs

no doubt, it cannot be a record from speakers, maybe sometimes it is but not here.

well, I don't want to name someone, I've never bought records to them so I won't accuse without knowing.

Just beware of those "listen" tricks.