Does anyone still use or like vinyl?

[Beef Oven!]

Indeed! The expense and the inconvenience that we went through, back in the day!

[gurnemanz]

Add space to that cartoon. I had previously converted some vinyl to digital. This worked pretty well but is rather fiddly especially if you are de-clicking and inserting track markers. Most favourite LPs are available by some digital means so last year I disconnected my record player which I was almost never using and put it in the spare bedroom (in case I have a change of heart) - saluting and lowering a flag as I did so. LPs are now there as a relic (in the garage) and to remind me what I used to play.

At the same time I did reconnect my cassette player to the amp. I still have quite a few audio cassettes from the 80s onwards, mostly off Radio 3 and there's some good stuff in there, a lot not available otherwise.

[Beef Oven!]

LPs are now there as a relic (in the garage) and to remind me what I used to play.

Why do we all seem to put them in the garage!!?? Robbers could have a field-day

At the same time I did reconnect my cassette player to the amp. I still have quite a few audio cassettes from the 80s onwards.........

[teamsaint]

Why do we all seem to put them in the garage!!?? Robbers could have a field-day

My Turntable and Cassette player are fully rigg ed up in the study, and doing fine service.

Some great album bargains to be had at record fairs, and nothing beats that click as you drop the needle onto a piece of vinyl.

Neighbourhood watch is there for those concerned about the vinyl mafia.

[Beef Oven!]

My Turntable and Cassette player are fully rigg ed up in the study, and doing fine service.

Some great album bargains to be had at record fairs, and nothing beats that click as you drop the needle onto a piece of vinyl.

Neighbourhood watch is there for those concerned about the vinyl mafia.

Well, I sold all my vinyl a while back, so......

Bought a few albums last year and set my turntable up again (entry level Thorens, sold the good equipment to my regret)

You have a study? I thought that only middle class ponces have studies, these days

I suppose that with property prices being what they are, anything's possible outside of london

[Roehre]

My Turntable and Cassette player are fully rigged up in the study, and doing fine service......

on a very regular base here too both in my study and in my library

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I allow my butler to use the Cassette Player in my Wine Cellar.

[Beef Oven!]

I allow my butler to use the Cassette Player in my Wine Cellar.

[Roehre]

I allow my butler to use the Cassette Player in my Wine Cellar.

that Chateau Lafitte 1976 you've got, is your offer to share it while enjoying Ferneyhough still open?

[Richard Tarleton]

All quite neat really, tucked in next to chimney breast - Rega deck, pre-amp, amp, speakers, thing for listening with headphones, mass of wires.....LPs stored nearby. I was listening to highlights from 1936 Bayreuth only yesterday.



As a middle-class ponce I have a study, tho' when the place eventually goes up for sale it will probably be described as a bedroom

[Roehre]

All quite neat really, tucked in next to chimney breast - Rega deck, pre-amp, amp, speakers, thing for listening with headphones, mass of wires.....LPs stored nearby. I was listening to highlights from 1936 Bayreuth only yesterday.



As a middle-class ponce I have a study, tho' when the place eventually goes up for sale it will probably be described as a bedroom

I know that feeling

[mangerton]

Yes, great cartoon.

I too have been suffering Great Inconvenience (could almost be a Dickens novel) recently. My turntable was connected to my 35 yo transistor amplifier - still going strong - but a couple of weeks ago I dug out the preamplifier and connected the turntable to my 10 yo valve amplifier, and have been listening to vinyl ever since, rediscovering old delights. Marvellous!

I notice someone mentioned cassettes. I have several hundred, many recorded off air from Radio 3, in the days when Radio 3 had good audio engineers, did not use compression, and I had excellent FM reception. They were all recorded with Dolby, initially B and latterly C. The problem is that my cassette machine is irreparably broken. I now have no means of playing my cassettes, and I'm not sure how they would sound anyway, as they are all at least 20 years old, some almost 40.

I'm reluctant to spend a lot on a new player, and I'm not even sure if cassette players with Dolby are still available. Can anyone here please advise?

[Beef Oven!]

All my cassettes sound shit.

[mangerton]

All my cassettes sound shit.

Yes, that's what I'm afraid of. The question is, did yours always sound like that, or were they once good?

[wenotsoira]

I like it, but only on wet days ...