The pleasures of vinyl...

[swee'pea99]

That's not always true, lots of studios in the 50s and 60s had excellent equipment and engineers, there would be no pops, hisses, etc. Also some unremastered stuff sounds better than the remastered, the latest release isn't always the best.

Absolutely. Some of my old Pablo & Chess records deliver flawless sound - on a par with CD for lack of background noise.

 

[raleighnut]

I went with a Project Debut Carbon and it's certainly a different world from the old deck I had back in the 70s.

Maz has a Project 6.9 which the insurance company supplied as a 'New for Old' replacement for an old semi-automatic Thorens she had stolen when we were burgled, it is a suspended sub-chassis type costing @ £1200 when new with an Ortofon cartridge ( another £200) fitted.

They wouldn't supply us with a Thorens as a replacement (too expensive)

Luckily they didn't nick my modified Thorens from the other room.

Maybe it was just too scruffy but I know which one sounds best.

 

[subaqua]

Goodbye yellow brick road


Mainly for opening tracks side 1 disc 1 just had a great afternoon being 10 again when my dad bought new sound centre in 1982 . Not a stack or separates. A PYE silver machine . Took pride of place in front room cost £149 which was a huge amount for my dad . I still had speakers when I moved in to my house in 1996 .

 

[GuyBoden]

Never mind Vinyl or Digital crap, you just can't beat the sound of the Studio Masters on good magnetic Tape..................

 

[further]

My Turntable Rega P25

now has aluminium sub platter

 

[Chromatic]

I dug my old 70s Sony direct drive record player out of the loft a few months back. It would appear I've moved on somewhat from the chud I bought in the early 90s. It did lead to me buying and hearing 'in rock' by Deep Purple for the first time. Oh mercy!

Now I feel the burning need to find the whole Can back catalogue on vinyl. The searching is the fun bit.

Cripes new vinyl is expensive though. I wanted to buy the reissue of the Sleep LP until I spotted the £19.99 price tag.

An excellent choice!!!

 

[Chromatic]

That's not always true, lots of studios in the 50s and 60s had excellent equipment and engineers, there would be no pops, hisses, etc. Also some unremastered stuff sounds better than the remastered, the latest release isn't always the best.

Outside of the remastering argument I have found that that a lot of the records I bought in the seventies and eighties before cds etc, sound better than vinyl bought recently.

 

[swee'pea99]

Cripes new vinyl is expensive though. I wanted to buy the reissue of the Sleep LP until I spotted the £19.99 price tag.

New vinyl huh? Try old vinyl...

 

[MontyVeda]

Vinyl fan here...

Been having a good old sort out and have about 300 LPs destined for the charity shop. There's an original Tubular Bells, plus the orchestral version of Mike Oldfield's yawnfest, loads of Bob (feckin) Dylan and numerous Van (bloody) Morrison LPs, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and many more are all coming to a chazza near me very soon.

...still got the best part of a thousand to keep me occupied though

£20 is not bad for new vinyl these days, bearing in mind it was around ten to fifteen quid in the late 80s/early 90s.

EDIT... as for favourites... 70s psychedelic/prog rock, funk and disco, 60s easy listening, alternative 80s, breaks, bleeps and beats from the 90s, library music, TV themes and film soundtracks, anything with a really bad cover, anything cheesy, anything strange (the stethoscopic heart record is a good one, as is the Unipart jingles album)

 

[hopless500]

Always had a turntable. One of life's drunken pleasures is getting some vinyl out. Sorting the sleeves and records out the following day, not so much fun

 

[iandg]

Still listening to my vinyl - loads of old 60s/70s blues/rock that I haven't replaced on cd yet. I like the 'pops and crackles'too.

 

[raleighnut]

My Turntable
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now has aluminium sub platter

Another REGA arm.

 

[biggs682]

And i thought this thread was about gimp mask's etc etc .... oh well back to the turntable

 

[Andrew_Culture]

An excellent choice!!!

I'm going through a krautrock fascination of almost teenage like obsession. To the extend my band has gone a bit krautrock!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

New vinyl huh? Try old vinyl...

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Mr Davis is on my hit list. We had a brilliant trumpet player in my old band, he blew my tiny musical mind wide open.