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It's not been advertised/talked about over here that much, pretty sure you'll be fine!

Woah no I'm harmless, I'm from the UK for a start! Just paid for my first record in the buy/she'll forum from 'Zezima'

Suddenly regretting the 11 in my username :|

I'll check it out tonight and see if I can see anything before buying the cleaning solution. Appreciate your help, I'm getting fustrated how it's not sounding as good as it used to!

I'd stamp on anyone who called me mail.

Many thanks. You may be right about it just needing a clean, I kind of assumed since it's not been changed since the 80's (granted not played much) it was maybe time for a new one. I'll see if i can buy a stylus cleaning kit and hope it makes the difference first. Is there anything I should be looking for to see if the needle is damaged? If I can get away with not replacing it obviously that would be a bonus as I'm looking to get a new decent one in the future. Cheers for your help.

I'm new to all this and currently have a hand-me-down from my Dad which is a Dual CS 505-3. Sounded great for a while but recently started to sound more muffled and quite 'heavy base' on records I know were fine before. I'm assuming this is the needle that needs replacing? However budget wise it's limiting me and I can't really afford to get it wrong! Does anyone know a low budget stylus that would work for the Dual CS 505-3? The current one is a Ortofon DN 165E. I've seen the OM10 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ORIGINAL-Ortofon-Nadel-10-fur-OMB-OM-Super-uva-NEU-/260304084116?pt=Plattenspielerzubeh%C3%B6r&hash=item3c9b551c94) which looks to be within my budget however would this just be a simple swap and replace or would I need a new cartrdige too? Also seen this http://www.gettheneedle.co.uk/stylus/brands-d/dual/dual-cs505-3-stylus-needle.html but I'm assuming I should avoid it as it seems very cheap. Any help anyone could give me would be much appreciated, I've searched around and struggling to get a definite answer!

For any UK people, the Banquet pre order has just gone on sale (exclusive Red/Blue swirl variant) for £14.99. http://www.banquetrecords.com/aaronwest Silver Bullet Merch (Hopeless) also have the clear with grey haze for £15 http://silverbulletmerch.com/collections/hopeless/products/aaron-west-and-the-roaring-twenties-we-dont-have-each-other-pre-order-lp

Same with artists for me (but I may be doing something wrong). When I search City and colour it brings up every thread with the word 'and' in. Not ideal!

Waiting on the banquet issue tomorrow. Expecting the worse price wise.

Houston Calls - A Collection Of Short Stories

FYS have been on a steady decline for me with every record . Love Pure Noise variants and records though.

The guy at banquett didn't tell me. Considering their prices are usually pretty expensive it usually works out the same price to get it imported!

Sometimes they do but in the past I've bought stuff from Amazon expecting standard black and ending up with a fancy variant. Can't give you a definite answer mate.

But it is Amazon which is pretty trustworty, they wont' put the picture until a lot nearer the time usually. SRC are also doing it (I'd go with amazon though if it was me) http://www.shopradiocast.com/products/Four-Year-Strong-%252d-Rise-or-Die-Trying-LP.html I managed to just snag the white variant last week but was after the splatter one.

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Good point, can't say I even listen to this album much anymore it's purely for nostalgia!

For anyone interested in the UK these go on sale from Banquet tomorrow instead.

This is going to go so fast Any ideas what time they usually get put on sale at HT?

Kept on coming across it on google when serarching for records so finally signed up!