Records are back - it is official.

[jammy395]

Dan / Shadow if ya don't cool it soon I will be forced to invite you both for a bake off against my 8 track (S&G Bridge over troubled waters)......
Now that is a real eye/ ear opener.......

[applemarc]

If vinyl is so bad how come some of us never got into Cd's and now Cd's don't sell and vinyl is on the way back. My kids always preferred Vinyl to the extent that they both now have turntables ages 23 and 25 ?

[jammy395]

I think someone lied to us Mark.

[_D_S_J_R_]

I don't think I ever said that vinyl is awful, merely that it 'typically' sounds a lot less like the master than a digital dub does (which should sound all but identical). Many artists, recording and mastering engineers used the vinyl 'sound' as the finishing touch to their work and so many 1960's pop singles often sound horrid when compiled for CD.

[edited for hectoring tone again]

[SteveTheShadow]

Nothing wrong with vinyl. How can there be if so many people love it and swear by it.

Flat Earth hi fi so coloured my attitude to the black stuff, I simply can't bear to listen to it.
I'm on tenterhooks waiting for sandpaper cymbals or mistracking on vocals, whenever I hear a record being played.
Can never relax with it.
I really do wish it was not like that, but vinyl just makes me anxious.
I listen to music to relax and enjoy it, which is why I use a file based system that allows me to do just that.

What I would really love to hear is a good turntable/arm/cartridge combination for £500 that tracks perfectly ALL my records at ALL times, does not suffer end-of-side distortion, EVER. If I hear the slightest trace of either of these distortions, I just have to turn it off. I really cant stand it.

Yes there can be some bad sounding digital I freely admit that, but I just find that I can tolerate the failings of digital far easier than I can the failings of vinyl. That's why I have had to refrain from using it and will, sadly, have to continue to refrain from using it for the foreseeable future.

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

Terrybooth is in S Yorkshire, arrange a visit.

[SteveTheShadow]

That might be an idea.

[jammy395]

Steve plonk a 1042 in a techie via a Phono 2 .............nuff said.


You will wank yerself daft till the cows come home or yer wife's sister shows up................

[terrybooth]

That might be an idea.

Actually Halifax. A little further north. PM if interested.

[SteveTheShadow]

That might be an idea.

Actually Halifax. A little further north. PM if interested.

Cheers Terry,
I may be in touch in the New Year.

Jammy.....the mind boggles A Techy is something to think about.