Originally Posted by Saabist
I primarily use an Elac-Miracord 40A turntable made in West Germany, the kind with pushbutton controls. It has an aluminum platter that weighs several pounds.
Cartridge is an Audio-Technica but I don't recall the model offhand. It's coupled to a Sansui receiver and KLH speakers. Also have several players from the 1950s-1970s, including an RCA console and several luggage-type record players of various types, many with vacuum-tube electronics.
It's interesting that vinyl has seen something of a resurgence in recent years. That wasn't supposed to happen!
Sometimes I think, even the young, like my own college graduate daughter are looking for something of value in that fact of stuff that is real. This whole digital thing, its void of the whole feel of something physical. Its just digital numbers, which vinyl its almost like a physical instrument rather then a digital synthesizer.
Anyway, my daughter and her boyfriend, in addition to their digital everyday world buy vinyl for those special artists.
For me, you know, we came out with digital music platforms which sonically technically blew out analog, once that was done, we corrupted digital music into the MP3 format to the point that, good old vinyl in many, many cases sounds better, just like an analog instrument should...
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