On 18/01/2017 00:47, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Huge wrote:
On 2017-01-17, Chris Bartram wrote:
On 17/01/17 17:04, Huge wrote:
On 2017-01-17, Clive George wrote:
On 17/01/2017 15:38, Tim Watts wrote:

It makes me laugh when I see the vinyl record hipster stores -
because half the people buying vinyl probably have a POS toy
turntable with a cheap ceramic cartridge, unbalanced turntable with
all the wow and flutter possible, unbalanced arm and rubbish
pre-amp.

I dunno - IME people who can be arsed with vinyl also tend to be
arsed about getting a decent amp/turntable/speakers.

[FX]Waves

I reckon the market is split: people who will go out and buy a
half-decent turntable etc (or better), and the ones doing it for
fashion..

I'm still using the turntable I bought 40 years ago.

Likewise. A Thorens TD150. But nearer 50 years ago here.

I confess that although I still have my old turntable I don't normally
play vinyl any more. I did fire it up a year or two ago and I had
forgotten just how tetchy about vibrations, earthing and magnetic
shielding the low signal levels of a magnetic pickup actually are.

It took several goes to get the thing going properly without obtrusive
hum and clicks from the CH and boiler were unavoidable. Having to turn
the disk over is surprisingly inconvenient after CDs or digital media.
One 32MB USB memory stick can hold around 50 albums at CD quality (or
many more depending on how much lossy compression you can live with).

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