Vinyl, and Music in general.

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Dec 2, 2015 5:58:38 GMT phatfil said:

fwiw i got myself a Rega 'Planet' off ebay a while back for the bargain price of £50. I sat down with a few beers 'n pals for a vinyl session and ended up cringing at every pop crackle and skip from my 40+yr old collection.

I was gutted, donkeys years of cd and lossless digital music formats had spoilt me, there may well have been greater depth to the sound but all the drunken/stoned mishaps which have left my vinyl collection scarred with scratches n skips pops n crackles resulted in a cringefest of disappointment. To the extent i now regard my 5ft of album shelf space as 'object d'art' and a visual record of (bad?) musical taste of my teens/early 20's FULL STOP..

A couple of years ago I was given a usb turntable to record some of the albums I had (not sure it is 5ft but around 500 albums). The odd thing was playing some of a old favs I could remember where the clicks were on the record. 

The first LP I bought was Autobahn - Kraftwerk, the last Vinyl LP was Bummed - Happy Mondays.

There used to be a second hand record shop in Croydon called Beanos. I used to buy LPs just because I liked the intro of track 13 side 2, all for about 50p!

I do agree with you , while the sound is definitely warmer/deeper, the crackles, jumps and skips did start to get annoying.

Nick

[Bluefish]

Dec 2, 2015 5:58:38 GMT phatfil said:

fwiw i got myself a Rega 'Planet' off ebay a while back for the bargain price of £50. I sat down with a few beers 'n pals for a vinyl session and ended up cringing at every pop crackle and skip from my 40+yr old collection.

I was gutted, donkeys years of cd and lossless digital music formats had spoilt me, there may well have been greater depth to the sound but all the drunken/stoned mishaps which have left my vinyl collection scarred with scratches n skips pops n crackles resulted in a cringefest of disappointment. To the extent i now regard my 5ft of album shelf space as 'object d'art' and a visual record of (bad?) musical taste of my teens/early 20's FULL STOP..

Did you give them a good clean first, It makes a hell of a difference, I had an old second hand album that kept skipping a few secs on one track, it took 3 cleans but now plays perfectly.

[Bluefish]

Dec 2, 2015 8:11:28 GMT kreed said:

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I'll pass on them mate lol

[letsavit]

Dec 2, 2015 8:11:28 GMT kreed said:

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Ordered specially to play my first press pink floyd DSOTM.........

[Bluefish]

Possibly gonna buy one of these, and an amp and speakers ?
www.richersounds.com/product/turntables/teac/tn300/teac-tn300-cher

Going for a look in the morn, the specs are above what it actually produces, so unless i want to spend a grand, and I've looked at shit loads of old time refurbed 70's models, that may still need work, this TT works for me?

[Bluefish]

Dec 3, 2015 21:13:49 GMT letsavit said:

Dec 2, 2015 8:11:28 GMT kreed said:

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Ordered specially to play my first press pink floyd DSOTM.........

c'mon they'l work great with a quality pressing lol

[Bluefish]

Dec 2, 2015 8:11:28 GMT kreed said:

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You are a dick.

[letsavit]

Dec 5, 2015 22:56:52 GMT Bluefish said:

Dec 3, 2015 21:13:49 GMT letsavit said:

Ordered specially to play my first press pink floyd DSOTM.........

c'mon they'l work great with a quality pressing lol

Wouldn't put that needle anywhere near any of my records, let alone that one, last time I looked it's worth about £200

[Bluefish]

Dec 5, 2015 23:00:21 GMT Bluefish said:

Dec 2, 2015 8:11:28 GMT kreed said:

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You are a dick.

Ps, I'd thought about it and it really pissed me off, he had nothing to offer to the convo. Yeah that's about it, Full stop .

[Bluefish]

Dec 5, 2015 23:03:13 GMT letsavit said:

Dec 5, 2015 22:56:52 GMT Bluefish said:

c'mon they'l work great with a quality pressing lol

Wouldn't put that needle anywhere near any of my records, let alone that one, last time I looked it's worth about £200 [/quotSo what do you recommend For a decent TT, not no expense spared, but decent quality?

[Bluefish]

Dec 5, 2015 23:03:13 GMT letsavit said:

Dec 5, 2015 22:56:52 GMT Bluefish said:

c'mon they'l work great with a quality pressing lol

Wouldn't put that needle anywhere near any of my records, let alone that one, last time I looked it's worth about £200

Ps as to losing £89 over it's life time for something you like as opposed to a model you don't you know what? I'll take that!

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Dec 5, 2015 23:00:21 GMT Bluefish said:

Dec 2, 2015 8:11:28 GMT kreed said:

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You are a dick.

[djs]

TL:DR...

Are you after a LP record turntable?

to plug into an amp via phono?

My mate got a Sony one from Currys. It's better than my old Bang and Olufsen.... no joke. (I also think his £400 amp is better than my £99 special from Richer's).

Scrub that. My missus says the B&O was rubbish back when Bryan Adams was churning out formulaic hits in about 1985. She's got a Sony....

I call it a conspiracy.

[letsavit]

Dec 5, 2015 23:06:08 GMT Bluefish said:

Dec 5, 2015 23:03:13 GMT letsavit said:

Wouldn't put that needle anywhere near any of my records, let alone that one, last time I looked it's worth about £200 [/quotSo what do you recommend For a decent TT, not no expense spared, but decent quality?

"Not no expense spared is a problem" good old pressing from bands like Pink cloud and such are expensive, new vinyl is £25......depends how much vinyl you're planning to collect over the coming years...? Can be an expensive hobby, more so now days with the "vinyl revival"

I would be looking for a good second hand rega and put a audio technica AT-95e needle on it.

Unlike the source that's change, vinyl, tape, CD and now MP3/Flac amp and speakers have not...in other words old amps and speakers on eBay that were well recommend in thier day will still be great today.