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Post by ChrisB on Sept 6, 2016 7:44:22 GMT
Reading James' (Sov) comments about never having owned a turntable, I began to ponder my own relationship with that particular method of playing music. I've always owned a turntable and can't really imagine life without one. When many people abandoned the medium, I just couldn't understand why it might seem reasonable to sell all of your recordings and buy them all over again on another format. Good news for me though, because it allowed me to take advantage of what was probably the golden period for buying used vinyl and I spent almost all of my available money in the huge number of excellent secondhand record shops in and around Brighton. That's my story, what about you folks - did you abandon records for CD or did you never use it in the first place? Have you come back to them or would you rather just not bother with all the fuss? I've set up a poll - you can vote twice: once with a numbered question and or once with a lettered question. |
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Post by MartinT on Sept 6, 2016 8:03:18 GMT
I did kind of abandon records for a while and came close to selling them, but I was rarely without a record deck.
The low point was my crappy, and expensive, Roksan Xerxes with its sagging top plate, which I sold off in disgust.
The high point was rediscovering records again after buying a Technics SL-1210.
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on Sept 6, 2016 8:37:54 GMT
My ex wife commited the unforgiveable crime of selling all my records at a car boot sale..
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Post by pinkie on Sept 6, 2016 8:43:13 GMT
I'm down a few records too Ali due to domestic disruption. I suppose I came back to them, although I have always had the record player as part of the system (it was falling apart until fairly recently - well the phono set up as a whole was)
It's under dust sheets at the moment waiting for holes in the ceiling to be made for a projector, screen and 3 Kef speakers
Anyway, its too nice out at the moment to be in listening to music
James had a good listen to some of my records last year
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Post by canetoad on Sept 6, 2016 8:54:55 GMT
My ex wife commited the unforgiveable crime of selling all my records at a car boot sale.. She'd be deceased if she was my ex-wife! |
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Post by brian2957 on Sept 6, 2016 9:24:44 GMT
Well , I sold my turntable and LPs in the late eighties , can't remember exactly when , and bought one of those new-fangled CD players . I then proceeded to spend the next twenty years or so trying to get my CD system to sound like an analogue system  . Around 6 years ago the CD player got confined to the loft and I moved over to a file based audio system and I've spent the last five years trying to get it to sound like an analogue system  Six weeks ago I was over at Tonys place and remembered he had an old Goldring Lenco GL75 in his cellar . I took it home , took it to bits , joined Lenco Heaven , and lo and behold I now have a decent working turntable . I now go into Glasgow once a month on payday and treat myself to a new LP ( sometimes more than one ) I won't be building up the kind of collection I had before . I will simply be building up a collection my favourite artists and albums . I will be applying some judicious tweeks to the turntable in the near future , but nothing too expensive or complicated . TBH I'm really quite taken with the sound of the GL75 and my system now sounds very like an analogue system ( strangely enough ) , and it's only taken me twenty eight years to get back there  |
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on Sept 6, 2016 12:12:39 GMT
I did pretty much the same thing Brian.
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on Sept 6, 2016 12:13:10 GMT
My ex wife commited the unforgiveable crime of selling all my records at a car boot sale.. She'd be deceased if she was my ex-wife! She nearly was Bernie.. |
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on Sept 6, 2016 12:21:06 GMT
I'm down a few records too Ali due to domestic disruption. I suppose I came back to them, although I have always had the record player as part of the system (it was falling apart until fairly recently - well the phono set up as a whole was) It's under dust sheets at the moment waiting for holes in the ceiling to be made for a projector, screen and 3 Kef speakers Anyway, its too nice out at the moment to be in listening to music James had a good listen to some of my records last year The vinyl is my main source these days,along with the reel to reel. |
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Post by brian2957 on Sept 6, 2016 12:25:48 GMT
I did pretty much the same thing Brian. Yes I know mate . This is all your and Garys fault |
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Post by MikeMusic on Sept 6, 2016 13:58:01 GMT
Thought I started with vinyl then remembered it was radio and tape before vinyl.
Since then I have always had and think I always will have vinyl
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. Around 6 years ago the CD player got confined to the loft and I moved over to a file based audio system and I've spent the last five years trying to get it to sound like an analogue system 
Six weeks ago I was over at Tonys place and remembered he had an old Goldring Lenco GL75 in his cellar . I took it home , took it to bits , joined Lenco Heaven , and lo and behold I now have a decent working turntable . I now go into Glasgow once a month on payday and treat myself to a new LP ( sometimes more than one 
