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Hello vinyl my old friend
Posted by tkdmart on 14 December 2011 - 2:03pm.
Just acquired, with Ortofon Red 2M cartridge. The loft has been raided and the kettle's on!
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The Kettle's On?
You've got a new turntable and the first record you put on is by The Feeling?
Welcome back to the wonderful world of vinyl, Mart. It lives happily in our house alongside digital.
One of my favourite phrases is Mr DG uttering: "Fancy a vinyl night?"
We get through a lot of talcum powder, mind.
It does sound better
I have an Older revolver Turntable(British made 1980's)next to a Denon cd player and after playing some cd's when you stick the vinyl on you can instantly hear the quality difference.Hard to say exactly what "it" is but it's definitely a superior sound.
Ah! A Pro-Ject RPM 9.2.
Very nice.
I know how this feels...
You are going to have such a good time.
Can I show off my turntable?
Mmmm...
Sexy.
SNAP
What arm and cartridge do you have? I have an Ittok LVII and a Goldring 2500 cartridge that isn't up to much.
Me?
Is that you, Mike?
It's an AudioQuest PT-9 tonearm and an AudioQuest 7000Fe5 MC cartridge.
Who will post the ultimate?
The Holy Trinity of Sondek, Ittok and Troika?
It's Sondek, Ekos and...
...Troika these days.
The Ittok is so old hat.
Actually, I used to have an Ekos (Mark 1) on my LP12 many years ago, and I've got an old Troika in a drawer somewhere at home with a bit of life left in it.
I'm "in the biz" as it were, so it's a perk of the job.
You've shown me yours,
so I'll show you mine.
A second-hand and much-loved Michell GyroDec. It's a beauty.
I think...
I've just come.
Ooh, I say, Mr Crowther.
Fancy seconds? The turntable is attached to one of these:
Stop...
Please stop.
I don't even know what that is, but it's giving me the raging horn.
It's an Audion valve amp
This, on the other hand, is a picture of several men with the raging horn:
GET A ROOM
It will need soundproofing, obviously
The thing for me about vinyl is the analogue sound - its not sampled. Only about 15% of the original sound gets onto a CD, even though your ears can be tricked by good hi-fi - and comprehensively tricked by those amps which put back an approximation of that which has been filetted out.
I also like the conceptual link in an analogue recording back to the original artist in the studio which digital doesn't give you.
And I like the word 'rumble'.
don't like jumping up every 3 minutes to play my old singles but blobbing out on the sofa with old albums is great - even the scratches take me back to their original infliction. What does irritate me is shite pressings of rare records and I have a distressingly high percentage of those - when they sound like somebody has sanded the run-out
It's an Orgasmatron!
...surely?
My Planar 3 now leaves me with a feeling of
abject circulatory inadequacy. Thanks, you bastards. Just in time for Christmas too. What unfeeling swine you are.
Patrick - you may need a lie down and a cup of tea...
... after seeing this one. Talk about the horn!
It occurs to me..
The turntable might have to be in an adjoining postal district
I think it might 'skip' otherwise?
That looks more like the arrival of an audiophile alien invasion than anything else - does it have its own power station
Now that DOES give me The Horn.
Folded, obviously. With passive baffles.
you lot
make me chuckle!
I have recently dug out my old turntable
(a very cheap Kenwood) after Mr Crowther's recent enthusiastic piece on buying one.
The last few weeks, I have thoroughly enjoyed trawling old junk shops and today I picked up the following for the ridiculously low price of $15.00 Canadian:
"Paul Simon" Paul Simon
"Sweet Baby James" James Taylor
"Wind and Wuthering" Genesis
"Songs For Swinging Lovers" Frank Sinatra
"Who Knows Where the Time Goes" Judy Collins
"Graduate Soundtrack" Siomon and Garfunkel etc
"Parsley,Sage, Rosemary and Thyme" Simon and Garfunkel
it has reawakened my enjoyment of listening to music again!
perhaps ma lugs ain't so good
but this makes me extremely happy...
The Goodmans Mezzo SL (bottom left) were bought back in 1974/5 for £80 I'd saved via a summer job. Till death etc...
I also have an old pair of Goodman's car speakers that survived from my XR2 days. They all fit really well and any time a mate comes over they allas say how ace my sound is.
so there!
just got my new denon moving coil cartridge installed
first disc on was a jan garbarek ECM release
ooooh la la
Jan Garbarek...
... plays The Faces?
Yes, that's a nice album
It's the one with "Stay with Me (while I play this ethereal alto sax solo)" on it, isn't it?