Record Players

[Ming the Merciless]

Warmer as in

Will have a rolled off treble and a prominent mid-bass with a slow decline toward the high frequencies.

 

[simon.r]

Two more pluses:

It ‘forces’ you to listen to all the tracks, rather than skipping ones you think you don’t like.

The sleeve notes and inserts are big enough to read.

Poor quality photo, but that’s the insert that came with Sandinista.

 

[Yellow Fang]

MrsR is changing the furniture around and we’ve moved the record player (or “vinyl player” as I heard it referred to on the radio a few days ago) into the living room.

What a pleasure to listen to some old records.

They don’t last long though, do they? 20 minutes or so for one side of a LP, 3 or 4 minutes for a single.

Perhaps the exercise involved in getting up and changing records regularly was the reason we all so skinny in the 70’s and 80’s?

And you weren't even drunk? That's when I usually play my old 45s. Turn up The Damned to 11. Sod the neighbours.

 

[slowmotion]

I have a 45 of Traffic's single, Paper Sun. I can still just about play it if I swap over the belt on my turntable. FFS, how cool is that?

 

[Yellow Fang]

I used to think vinyl sounded somehow better, but now I am not entirely convinced. I was irritated several times when I bought a vinyl LP to hear it sound like it was gurgling underwater. It was only a slight effect, but it was annoying. Changing the needle did not fix it. It was more than one new record. I ended up getting a new record player. I was at a new year's eve party trying to get someone's record player to play through an amp. It was a cheap record player, but it sounded rubbish. Someone brought in some modern gizmo and it sounded great. I think vinyl sounded more alive than CDs, and maybe better than the MP3s, but I am not sure they sound as good as modern sound systems.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I have a 45 of Traffic's single, Paper Sun. I can still just about play it if I swap over the belt on my turntable. FFS, how cool is that?

Rega Planar. What a scam that was.

 

[slowmotion]

Rega Planar. What a scam that was.

You had to do the same on this one. If you got it wrong, I think the turntable went backwards or something.

I probably didn't notice at the time.

 

[Profpointy]

You had to do the same on this one. If you got it wrong, I think the turntable went backwards or something. View attachment 379145

I probably didn't notice at the time.

I had one of them. It was pretty good to be honest, especially as it was my uncle's 20 year old cast off. Replaced it with a Linn eventually

 

[simon.r]

Now playing the first LP I ever bought. T Rex, Ride A White Swan. If memory serves it cost 64p in about 1974.

 

[simon.r]

And you weren't even drunk? That's when I usually play my old 45s. Turn up The Damned to 11. Sod the neighbours.

Spinal Tap reference

 

[slowmotion]

Now playing the first LP I ever bought. T Rex, Ride A White Swan. If memory serves it cost 64p in about 1974.

Pah!

I'm searching for a Jimi Hendrix LP..........and it's mono.

 

[raleighnut]

Rega Planar. What a scam that was.

Nice Arm though, I've got an RB250 fitted to my Thorens, a great improvement on the original.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Warmer as in

Will have a rolled off treble and a prominent mid-bass with a slow decline toward the high frequencies.

That's the best explanation so far, even though I don't understand the rolled off bit.

 

[Venod]

i understand all the nostalgia, and the LP covers and sleeve notes were a pleasure to own and read, but my hearing doesn't warrant all the inconvenience for me, although a nice turntable would be a thing I would appreciate, nowadays its a NAS for all my music (I still have a lot of CD's that never get played) I am now looking for some good free cloud storage space, any recommendations ?

 

[srw]

Warmer as in

Will have a rolled off treble and a prominent mid-bass with a slow decline toward the high frequencies.

In other words the frequency response is artificially adjusted to favour tenor notes rather than what the musicians produced.