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In Reply to: RE: Question for those who have deserted vinyl (you know who you are!) posted by ecl876 on February 03, 2017 at 09:55:42
I play LPs almost exclusively.
I had hundreds of CDs and SACDs and a very fine CD Player but in the past 10 years I played them less and less, bought only LPs then stopped playing CDs at all. A few years ago I copied all my CDs to a hard drive and gave them away to Salvation Army.
2 years ago when I became nearly immobile my kids gave me a Bluetooth receiver and put me on their Itunes plan so I could play music from the couch. Even with the instant choice of new music on Itunes and my 350 CDs on My Music, I still fought the pain and played LPs. Nuts, right?
Gravitating away from CDs and back to records might be a "hands on" thing as I build all my gear and play an instrument but that doesn't explain why I don't use the Streaming more. I'm Old School and don't mind surface noise but wish it weren't there. I don't read Liner Notes more than once, brushing the record and stylus I could do without, and as above my Arthritis makes getting up to choose and change records painful. Maybe It's an old age set in my ways thing.
I do like to use my hands. Want to see the 60 Watt mono blocks I limped up and down the stairs with and used as an excuse to drive 6000 miles to visit my friend Steve Brown for his help with them?
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I tried to see your system in Inmate Systems... What is your TT and speakers? I'll bet it sounds glorious!!
Doug
Just a little something I threw together, over a 2 year period ;-)
Diyaudio.com update on the Mullard 5-20 circuit
Then my pal Steve Brown, the Wizard of Happy Valley, built his take on the JE Labs Line Stage which, once heard,I had to do also.
His phono stage, a Cinemag SUT and VPI Traveler with ZYX Bloom cartridge is the front end. Speakers are Horn/Bass Reflex 4 Pis.
Yeah, the sounds are pretty good.
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