I've mentioned this before but MrsRNP beloved father had a 'gold turntable', after his death it got lost in the garage.
I found it and discovered it was a Nottingham Analogue Dais. I contacted them and dropped it off for repair (they also replaced the arm & stylus) and did an amazing job.
Record playing in our house is a lovely emotive charged affair.
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Those were the days when you could get five pints, a bag of chips and still get changes out of a fiver
😆 not quite, but old vinyl was literally as cheap as chips.
I had to look that turntable up as I thought it was a copy of my Systemdek biscuit tin from '85
Very expensive indeed
I need to get some electrical repairs to my A&R Cambridge A60 amp from the same era and see if the Creek amp I've got up the loft fires up with no cracklin
Vinyl for me...but then I'm a old skool rave dj , 2 decks and a mixer turns vinyl into a instrument
Do you have any idea what that Linn is worth?
It's a "standard" LP12 from the '90s. No fancy stuff like Valhalla. I reckon it's probably worth around £1000. That £50000 version has very little in common with mine. Still a bloody silly price.
CDs were labelled [A][A][D] or suchlike to indicate how far along the food chain it’d been converted.
Never knew what that refered to, thanks Cou2.
I buy cds generally, rip to an mp3 player for out & about. Vinyl is too fragile and so often I hear about substandard quality of small run presses. I get the impression that quality control is less of a thing now that plants are so busy and it's hard to time stock with a tour or advertised release date so if there's an issue with a batch a repress might take ages.
When cds became available I heard rumours that they'd be susceptable to oxidation / disk rot. First cd I ever bought still gets played every so often, no issues.
When cds became available I heard rumours that they’d be susceptable to oxidation / disk rot.
Seemingly it is a thing, I've had a couple of CDs and DVDs go bad but can't say it's been anything other than random. In any event it's an easy job to rip discs to a hard drive and storage has never been cheaper. My plan is to rip everything and self-host.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot
Huh, it's just occurred to me,
All the vinyl aficionados eschewing digital formats, any LPs pressed in like the last 30 years were probably recorded digitally in the first place and then converted back to analogue to press the record.
All the vinyl aficionados eschewing digital formats, any LPs pressed in like the last 30 years were probably recorded digitally in the first place and then converted back to analogue to press the record.
Likewise, if you're listening to an older recording on CD or streaming, it was recorded on analogue.
Personally, I don't care. Vinyl sounds great to my ears and that's all that really matters.
that’s all that really matters.
Yep. It's like riding a hardtail or full-sus; it's all good, all that matters is you're on a bike. I guess streaming is an e-bike, in that analogy.
It’s something like Original Master, Duplication, Pressing. Or something. The final [D] being the disc itself.
Yep. SPARS code
I guess streaming is an e-bike, in that analogy.
Except in the case of streaming the musicians creating the product get paid buttons.
that’s all that really matters.
Can't argue with that. We can debate all we like, but only have you have your ears.
(I mean, they're clearly broken, but... 🙂 )
Yep. SPARS code
Aha, I never knew what it was called. Cheers for that.
(And I was almost right 🙂 )
