Cardas Audio Frequency Sweep and Burn In Record Mk II

Stereophile Magazine Recommended Component

Leave it to George Cardas to keep your turntable-based system at peak performance with a cutting-edge tool for system set-up, diagnostics, and maintenance. Produced by George Cardas and mastered by Stan Ricker, the Cardas Frequency Sweep and Burn-in Record includes all the essential standard tones plus relative and absolute polarity checks along with vocal channel identification.

To combat accumulated magnetic grunge, George provides a trio of frequency sweep tracks that ultrasonically clean the cartridge stylus and degauss the entire system. Also on-board are locked pink noise grooves that repeat endlessly, blank plateaus, and even a sync label to check platter speed. "The Sweeper" is mastered at 16 2/3 rpm, plays at 33 1/3 rpm and comes in a super-stable 180 gram pressing.

Tracks

Side One
1. 1000 cycles, -14 db for level set (55 seconds)
2. Frequency Sweep, 30 Hz to 30 KHz, -14 db, both channels, in phase Spiral
3. Frequency Sweep, 1 KHz to 30 KHz, -14 db, both channels, out of phase Spiral
4. Frequency Sweep, 1 KHz to 30 KHz, -14 db, both channels,out of phase Lock-out
5. 10 KHz, -14 db, both channels, in phase Spiral
6. 10 KHz, -14 db, left channel Spiral
7. 10 KHz, -14 db, right channel Lock-out
8. 1 KHz triangle wave -14 db, both channels, in phase
9. 1 KHz, -14 db, both channels, in phase
10. 1 KHz, -14 db, left channel Spiral
11. 1 KHz, -14 db, right channel Lock-out
12. 400 Hz, -14 db, both channels, in phase Spiral
13. 400 Hz, -14 db, left channel Spiral
14. 400 Hz, -14 db, right channel Lock-out
15. 65.4 Hz, both channels, in phase Lock-out
16. 65.4 Hz, both channels, out of phase Lock-out
17. 49 Hz, both channels, in phase Spiral
18. 49 Hz, both channels, out of phase Lock-out
19. 1 KHz, "0" db for level-set. Lead-out Spiral and final tie-off.

• Mastered at 16 2/3 rpm
• Designed to be played at 33 1/3 rpm.