Been listening to some vinyl for first time in about three decades.
 

Heard a few things about the possible resurgence of our old 33 1/3 rpm vinyl.

How about you, you have a turntable?

My stuff is old, but it was pretty good back in the day, and it is no comparison to the modern CDs in clarity.

Still fun though to play that 30-46 year old stuff.

What you got?

Seals and Crofts, summer breeze for me today prior to the Royals game.

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I still have my turntable from the 80's. I have a bunch of soundtracks from the 80's.

What do you think of the comparison of the old vs the new?

KQRS in Minneapolis is playing a lot of music off vinyl again.

Bang & Olufsen Beogram RX2
Pioneer SX-535
EPI t/e 70 bookshelf speakers

It's just a small setup for my office and because no one else wants to hear the shit I listen to. Vinyl never went away in punk and it's been back in metal for awhile now. For years, I would only buy new releases that were either first or limited presses. So if you're into shitty music, I have a pretty decent collection, mostly 7".

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Very cool! Love it! How long have you had your equipment?

It had been so long since I had used my Mitsubishi DPEC-7 turntable I had to take the bottom off and lube it up a little for the automatic arm raising/lowering gadget to work properly.

Thread makes me sad as in 1986 I lost over 750 albums in a fire :(

Some were irreplaceable too.

Brings back memories of weekly treks to Tiger records.

Sad deal Joe, sorry to hear that.

It was around that time that I lost a bunch when the sump pump failed and our basement got kind of flooded. I didn't have near that many, but it was quite a few.

In retrospect, I probably could have saved more than I did but we weren't playing them much anymore at the time.

I played an Iron Butterfly album today and had to clean it up from that water but it seemed fine once I did it.

Wife got me a record player for X-mas. I love it. Got some great Zepplin and Beatles and Johnny Cash albums I've been listening to. Also, the Inglorious Basterds soundtrack. Top notch.

Yep, good point. I used to have all of that stuff but have no idea where it went. Time to restock it.

I don't think anything sounds as good as the first time the needle hits the record.

*scratch*

And on a related note I have around 100 albums (I'm guessing, it's about 4 or 5 boxes) of records that are mostly big band and 1950's music.

I can't ****ing wait to hear these on my stereo. Once I buy a turn table (I'm very skeptical of most newer "retro producers") I plan to play some Al Bowlly and dance with my wife on the porch.

I got the Beogram around '99 from an abandoned storage closet in the basement of an apartment building in midtown KC. I picked up the receiver and speakers secondhand around 2011. I had been using various other receivers/speakers before that. I also have a Numark turntable that I use to rip my vinyl onto a PC so I can listen to it on my phone. I hate the look of it though, so I only use it occasionally.

I am thinking about picking up a new Denon though with some reward points I have through work. The replacement cartridge on that Beogram is far too expensive for this small of a setup and the shitty recording quality of the bands I listen to. Most of the stuff I listen to is self recorded on little to no budget.

Recently bought a new turntable to play my old vinyl. incredible memories:

Howlin' Wolf
Joe Cocker
Etta James
Carol King
Rita Coolidge
Bob Dylan
Otis Redding
Santana

Too many more to list. :rockon: