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In Reply to: Re: About used records - people's reactions posted by pass the peas on September 8, 2006 at 15:34:22:
I've had more than one person rationalize their conversion to CD's that way. I've been told it's fine for me to continue to play records because mine are in good condition. As if the mishandling, tossing of the apparently superfluous inner sleeve, and needle skipping across the LP was somehow out of their control.
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Funny thing about ticks and pops. I remember years ago going to a hi fi shop to audition speakers with my sister (she was in the market for some). I brought along a few records to use, and the salesman put one on a cheap record player (I use that term deliberately) which was hooked up to the system containing the speakers. The music came out sounding like I had given my records a dirt shower before putting them back in the jacket. I asked to have them played on a real turntable which he grudgingly did. A lot of the ticks and pops and noise vanished. When I got home afterwards I put the same record on my turntable and it sounded fine - quiet background with very few ticks or pops. Sometimes the equipment was so crappy it actually made records sound WORSE than they really were. And this was in a supposedly reputable shop that sold high end equipment! I wonder if that shop later used that same crap turntable to sell more CD players?
a point made many times here. A large part of the cost/benefit ratio to buying a high-end table/arm/cart is the much more quiet background that you will enjoy. Suddenly, all those college-era records that you assumed were shot to hell are not only listenable, but actually enjoyable.
Funny --- ish ---- that sometimes realworld parameters intervene in the pursuit of Analog Lp playback nirvana.I knew it, but didn't fully realize it until now, that there was a kind of "mixed messages" thing happening in my personal evolution.
About the time, oh, mid-college or thereabout, when one is say, 18 or 19, you may be just on the cusp of realizing what a fundamental thing music is, what an energizing or mind-bending influence, what a comfort when you're down, what a well of unending discovery it can be...
If you've had a long history already with playing your pop-tunes and hits in record form from early age, you begin to understand the mechanics of the process --- ie clean records + reasonable stylus = ever-improving appreciation, deeper understanding, and overall much more smooth of a ride.........
However, right at this critical moment in your developement, other critical parameters walk right in the door, unannounced, with a slightly different wiggle.
It's somewhere around this point that you also begin to put together the equation ::
Music-that-shakes-hips + some chemical conviviality = a new horizon of getting-laid-more-than-once-in-a-row .....I think for myself, and maybe some others here, that second equation produced a sea-change that didn't really do much for record life, didn't include stylus-fluid, and probably wouldn't allow us to come around to a sane way of caring for the musical... uhm,, momentum in our lives.. well into the era of Cd.
By then all the realizations were down the experiential drain anyway.
But I do think a lot of us would have been well-behaved converts to respectable Lp care and treatment ... were it not for those intervening socio-biological developments.
For those of you who have well-cared for records from teenage days, well, something's wrong with that picture.
Or you're a classical fan.
Or something.J.D.
Some of us found music and HiFi at an early age. Most of my albums bought between 16 and 20 are very much playable. Quite a few of them were purchased to be played on the Maggies (MG 1's) I bought brand new when I was 18!Much as I like my system, it's all about the music.
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