Probably Only Me, Deke And About Half A Dozen Others....

[kerching]

Bought a record player at Xmas...went into loft today to start digging out the Vinyl...hoping to find the £5k er!

Not there!....but found these

Happy memories of the latter quarter of the last Century

 

[binky]

deep purple fan eh!

 

[ProDave]

I still have my old vinyl collection.  Just need to get around to buying a new stylus for my record deck.

 

[kerching]

deep purple fan eh!

Oh YES!

Cannot remember if DP in Rock or Sabbath Paranoid was the first ever LP,that I bought

Still,got my Rolf Harris Stylophone AND the flexi disc that came with it!

I bet Rolf wishes he had stuck to his own Stylus!

'Two little boys had two little toys, each had wood......'

 

[OnOff]

Bought one of those IoN record decks that output to USB. Transferred 3 or 4 12" records and got bored tbh. Musical tastes have changed to some extent or I've since bought the CD. 

Oddly enough at my parents house yesterday, they're having a clear out and I'm having the old Technics 315 stack system. Purely for sentimental reasons. 

 

[kerching]

Technics seperates!

Now I feel less old!

Mine were originally played on my Green Dansette

 

[SPECIAL LOCATION]

I still have my Technics turntable & Amp & CD player in the lounge...

My Cassette deck died over 20 years ago, (well I killed it after if chewed one to many tapes)..

And as car CD players became the norm tapes for the car (made or purchased) became unneccessary...

Few years ago I did get one of these gismos for £20 to copy some of my old records...

http://cpc.farnell.com/ion/ion-vinyl-forever/interface-turntable-to-usb-ion/dp/CS23705?mckv=sYmYAGRcU_dc|pcrid|76842592337|kword|ion%20vinyl%20forever|match|p|plid|&CMP=KNC-GUK-CPC-GEN-SKU-ION-CS23705

basically works ok decent sound and ..   the software with it has auto detect for end of tracks so ...

theoretically you can just start one side of an album going then come back in about 20 mins to listen to your fave tunes now on the computer... 

BUT as I gradually remembered some artists had that habit of either merging the tracks into each other or having a false finish to a song,

3 second pause then continue with the same track..

So your digital copies can end up as one big long music file...

or too many short music files....

Just means that the automatic recording..

isn't always a trouble free task!

Guinness

 

[kerching]

My mate has a wall of ikea shelves - stacked with VINYL

He is also a tape (8 ?) fan !

I don't take the pi$$ much........

Oh, i think you should!....ikea shelving FFS!

 

[Sidewinder]

I still have a separates system and still in use.

2 off Sony 300 disk autochangers (with another that needs a bit of TLC) CDPCD355

Dual CS430 turntable

Technics dual cassette deck RS-TS212

Marantz NS7004 network "radio", AM, FM, DAB & internet

Amp is Technics SU-A707

Speakers are Mordaunt Short, can't remember the model no & it's on the back of the speakers.

 

[sprocketflup]

Got a system but sold all my vinyl when we moved down here as it was getting wrecked. Dealer bloke made a special trip from Edinburgh to Devon to collect. He went through the whole lot, puling each record out of its sleeve and checking them. He was visibly shaking as he did so, I thought he was gonna wet himself with excitement.

When it came to talking money he started with the "Well, theres not a lot here..." kind of chat and then stopped himself when he saw my raised eyebrow. Ended up with a fair deal both ways, but there was quite a few rarities I there that I know Ill never see again

 

[sprocketflup]

Of course that's why they were in good nick in the first place, theyed only been played once

 

[Essex1]

There are enough dinosaurs on other forums.

 

[OnOff]

Used to look through the then Kays catalogue (when they had airguns for sale in them) at the "music centres" with envy so I "made" my first system. Took an old radiogram and HAND sawed the speakers off each side thus making them separate. Used blockboard to make new sides for the record player radio section and speaker ends. Bell wire to the corners of the room. Repainted everything black. Used my old mono cassette player connected via 5-pin DIN to the AUX on the radiogram. Mind you I was about 12! Soldering done with an iron heated up on Dad's blow torch.

Wish I'd kept all my old valve radios though!

 

[Lurch]

This is all before my time, Dansette, radiogram????

I'm all about the MP3.

 

[Essex1]

This is all before my time, Dansette, radiogram????I'm all about the MP3.

I grew up with records. They were rubbish. Went to tapes. They were better. Then CDs. They were great. Flirted with mini-discs which were awful. Then the digital world hit us and the quality and range is second to none.

 

[Sidewinder]

Well Essex, you really should look up the Nyquist ratio and look into how that relates to the digitisation of audio frequencies that are audible to the "standard" human ear.

Vinyl has a greater dynamic range than CD.

It is just harder to get "good" reproduction of vinyl than it is CD, thus it is more expensive.

This is not quite snake oil territory, but, it is sound science and engineering.

It is however, very subjective, and, there are few, me these days unfortunately who have lost the details of their hearing due to work related hearing damage.

 

[kerching]

Dansette.....stand alone record player with built in speaker

Height of technology?......recording chart show on a sunday night holding micmin front of radio and recording onto Philips Cassette tape,recorder WITH black leath case. Trick was to guess when DJ was about to talk so,you could hit the mic switch and cut him off. AND getting your mum not to shout "tea's ready". As the mic picked it up!

k tel,records....s****

And I have hundreds of Jimmy....open brackets Paedo fiddly diidler close brackets ...points. Can i convert them into,Avios points?

Yes , there are Dinosaurs on other forums....also W️S

Just saying

 

[NozSpark]

This is all before my time, Dansette, radiogram????

I'm all about the MP3.

I had a mini disk....didn't think much of MP3 when it came out :shakehead

 

[Essex1]

Well Essex, you really should look up the Nyquist ratio and look into how that relates to the digitisation of audio frequencies that are audible to the "standard" human ear.

Vinyl has a greater dynamic range than CD.

It is just harder to get "good" reproduction of vinyl than it is CD, thus it is more expensive.

This is not quite snake oil territory, but, it is sound science and engineering.

It is however, very subjective, and, there are few, me these days unfortunately who have lost the details of their hearing due to work related hearing damage.

You may well be correct. I have no idea. The day I look at science to decide how music makes me feel then for me that is the day I stop listening. I get the nostalgia of records but for me it is all about the music. I get though it is a personal thing. As it should be.

 

[OnOff]

I'm of an age that I really believe in the "warmth" of vinyl sound wise. For me it's not anyway just about the quality or not but the whole experience. The album artwork, inspecting and cleaning the record, checking the stylus for fluff. Nothing better than kicking back in a darkened room with a beer, dropping the needle onto the record and settling in until the track starts. Ortofon was my cartridge of choice. 

(Or being with "a bird" and having to get up and turn the record over!  :lol: )