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Anyone back to playing records?
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01/23/21 09:40 PM
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Buzzsaw
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Thinking about getting a turntable, speakers and an amplifier. Buy some "direct to disc" records
anyone do this?
suggest some better components...
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
[Re: Buzzsaw]
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01/23/21 10:38 PM
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I have a setup like that, with gear from the Houston house. Bang&Olufsun turntable, Phase Linear 400 power amp, and a Carver preamp. I still have an unused Phase Linear 200 Power amp that I would sell, I guess, but you’d need a true preamp, and those are hard to find these days, unless you want to pay the big bucks.
That said, if you plan to play records and transfer the songs to CD, that idea occurred to me a few years ago, but I couldn’t find a serious piece of gear to do that. The turntables were low quality. So I got some intermediate (preamp to the gear to the computer) gear. That worked, but it was rather slow going, since I didn’t want every song on every record.
All of what I said above is a bit dated, so maybe better gear (turntable to CD) is available now.
The house we’re in now is too small to hold the big audiophile setup I had in the Houston house. It was quite a setup. I do miss it. The Phase Linear 200 was for the rear speakers, while the 400 drove the big front speakers (pro level JBL).
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
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01/24/21 12:15 AM
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I have a setup like that, with gear from the Houston house. Bang&Olufsun turntable, Phase Linear 400 power amp, and a Carver preamp. I still have an unused Phase Linear 200 Power amp that I would sell, I guess, but you’d need a true preamp, and those are hard to find these days, unless you want to pay the big bucks.
That said, if you plan to play records and transfer the songs to CD, that idea occurred to me a few years ago, but I couldn’t find a serious piece of gear to do that. The turntables were low quality. So I got some intermediate (preamp to the gear to the computer) gear. That worked, but it was rather slow going, since I didn’t want every song on every record.
All of what I said above is a bit dated, so maybe better gear (turntable to CD) is available now.
The house we’re in now is too small to hold the big audiophile setup I had in the Houston house. It was quite a setup. I do miss it. The Phase Linear 200 was for the rear speakers, while the 400 drove the big front speakers (pro level JBL). On the pre-amp they’re not all created equal either. I went through a few before I had the sound I wanted from my turntable. It’s been a few years since I converted so I don’t remember what I wound up with. I do know I wound up with a tube type pre-amp.
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
[Re: Buzzsaw]
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01/24/21 12:26 AM
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KRoyal
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Damn is this what retirement is like???
Go from not shooting guns to racing RC cars to flying drones to listening to vinyl??
Guess I’ll work until I’m 80 and just keep on shooting.
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
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01/24/21 01:45 AM
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Bullfrog
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Only one way to rock out to Burt Backarack!
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
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01/24/21 01:47 AM
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"Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war." - General Patton
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
[Re: reeltexan]
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01/24/21 02:03 AM
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NORML as can be
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Same, I have hundreds of Albums.
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
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01/24/21 02:21 AM
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My daughter made off with all my good albums from the 60's. Left me with my old 8 tracks. Anybody want to talk about the virtues of 8 tracks????
(Can anyone say anything good about 8 tracks?)
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
[Re: Buzzsaw]
#8141006
01/24/21 02:37 AM
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kry226
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My 12 year-old love his records. One of his favorites is his Jim Croce album. I'm a great dad!
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
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01/24/21 02:51 AM
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
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01/24/21 02:55 AM
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Damn is this what retirement is like???
Go from not shooting guns to racing RC cars to flying drones to listening to vinyl??
Guess I’ll work until I’m 80 and just keep on shooting. This
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
[Re: Buzzsaw]
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01/24/21 02:56 AM
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Greg
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Don’t go with this one. Had it as a kid and the sound quality sucked
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
[Re: Buzzsaw]
#8141058
01/24/21 03:15 AM
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Superduty
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Alexa plays anything I want.
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
[Re: Buzzsaw]
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01/24/21 03:28 AM
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Bullfrog
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Buzz, I get the nostalgia buddy.
Man if I knew what Oxner knows I could throw away what I know
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
[Re: Superduty]
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01/24/21 03:44 AM
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Buzzsaw
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Alexa plays anything I want. please
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
[Re: 603Country]
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01/24/21 03:47 AM
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Buzzsaw
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I have a setup like that, with gear from the Houston house. Bang&Olufsun turntable, Phase Linear 400 power amp, and a Carver preamp. I still have an unused Phase Linear 200 Power amp that I would sell, I guess, but you’d need a true preamp, and those are hard to find these days, unless you want to pay the big bucks.
That said, if you plan to play records and transfer the songs to CD, that idea occurred to me a few years ago, but I couldn’t find a serious piece of gear to do that. The turntables were low quality. So I got some intermediate (preamp to the gear to the computer) gear. That worked, but it was rather slow going, since I didn’t want every song on every record.
All of what I said above is a bit dated, so maybe better gear (turntable to CD) is available now.
The house we’re in now is too small to hold the big audiophile setup I had in the Houston house. It was quite a setup. I do miss it. The Phase Linear 200 was for the rear speakers, while the 400 drove the big front speakers (pro level JBL). Damm , what a set up. Ive been looking, you must have had about $10,000 easy in this set up. I was looking at KEF Speakers....just looking Where is a good place to buy vinyl?
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
[Re: Greg]
#8141131
01/24/21 04:16 AM
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Brother in-law
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Don’t go with this one. Had it as a kid and the sound quality sucked 2beez has that one, it matches his jeans
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
[Re: Buzzsaw]
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01/24/21 04:41 AM
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We still have a stereo record player, also an 8 track player with a recorder.
Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back. _____________"Illegitimus non carborundum est"_______________
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
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#8141149
01/24/21 04:42 AM
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KRoyal
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Don’t go with this one. Had it as a kid and the sound quality sucked 2beez has that one, it matches his jeans
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
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01/24/21 04:44 AM
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Don’t go with this one. Had it as a kid and the sound quality sucked 2beez has that one, it matches his jeans F you both.... just saying.
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
[Re: Buzzsaw]
#8141188
01/24/21 06:11 AM
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Bullfrog
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Sorry I’m with the Beez here.
Man if I knew what Oxner knows I could throw away what I know
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
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01/24/21 11:21 AM
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I have SONOS set up through out my house inside and outside
I just make my own playlist, I can play like 10 different songs in each area if desired
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
[Re: Buzzsaw]
#8141324
01/24/21 02:42 PM
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Yep. I’ve started acquiring vinyl from some of my favorites, but it’s usually a band’s greatest hits album.
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
[Re: Old Shakie]
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01/24/21 03:09 PM
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My daughter made off with all my good albums from the 60's. Left me with my old 8 tracks. Anybody want to talk about the virtues of 8 tracks????
(Can anyone say anything good about 8 tracks?) I still have a Allman Brothers 8 track with a piece of duct tape holding it together.
"You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas".
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Re: Anyone back to playing records?
[Re: Buzzsaw]
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01/24/21 03:17 PM
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Wp75160’s tube type preamp comment has me wishing for my old set-up again. Among my extra gear is an EQ1 equalizer. It, and the Power Amp just sit and stare at me now. Not hooked up to anything. The equalizer had microphones for putting at the spot you sit and allowing you to set the frequency response where you want it at that specific spot. And the Carver Preamp had a holographic setting. Somehow or other it would allow you to hear the music and be able to hear where each musician was playing - drums to my right, flute to my left, and like that. Most amazing. And the sound clarity and detail was also amazing. I always said that if the guitar player scratched his butt, I could hear it. Hooked into all that was a high end cassette player/recorder and a huge TEAC reel to reel.
Well, I don’t have sound quality like that anymore, unfortunately. I do have an outstanding surround sound set-up in the family room. It’s great for movie watching, but it isn’t audiophile quality like my old set-up. The music comes from iTunes, so it isn’t what you could get off a record. But, you can play music all day and never have to walk to the phonograph.
I suppose you could say that I’ve given up sound quality for ease of use. And...I’m Ok with it, though I miss the great sound quality sometimes.
Not my monkeys, not my circus...
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