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SAE 5000 Noise reduction unit.

Strawman

Strawman

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OK, I think the purists are going to tear this one up but, I scored a 5000 pop & click unit for $30.00. I had one 20 years ago and frankly, a lot of my albums have seen better days and worse partys. Just put on Eric Clapton's Slow Hand, and I'm hoping that it can save this for me. A lot of people frown upon processors, but it was either this (which have been going for over a C-note) or try and find a Burwin Research (more $$$'s) I've had enough liquid courage, so I'll await the responses. Don't hold back, tell me what ya think.
 
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The 5000 can help a bit but you will find they work better with some cartridges then others. Most likely due to different outputs.
 
I like it, but be careful pushing it too hard. Use the invert function to fine tune. I found a deep cleaning on an LP does more to improve the sound than palying a dirty record and relying on the processor to clean up the sound.

Regards,
Joe
 
The 5000 is more of a "pop & click" filter, so it's not going to help a lot with a noisey record. It will help to take out spikes caused from scratches.
 
I've got a mint one in my basement for about 20 years now. Got it from DAK Industries long ago for about $150.

When I had my first system (Tech SA411, RSM236x, SL-Q350) it did clean up the records I once played on my 20-year old Magnavox console. However.....I got real disenchanted with it two systems later (Mac C33, Yam K-1020, Yam PF800) when I found it taking off the sharp high frequencies. Happened no matter what setting it was on.

In the basement in it's original box next to the dbx NX40.
 
Sae 5000a

The 5000A is a good product that can make a big improvement on some records. It works best on otherwise clean records that have occasional "ticks" or "pops". That being said, there is no free lunch. If the record is really scratched and dirty it works too much and then sounds kind of funky. It also has very sharp high and low pass filters at the audio band extremes. When engaged it removes some clarity from the sound. One of the best features is that it can be switched out when not needed.
 
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