Turntables for vinyl

[Cockney Sparrow]

"Sailing is like standing in a cold shower tearing up £10 notes" I paraphrase & the denomination might be incorrect.

[cloughie]

"Sailing is like standing in a cold shower tearing up £10 notes" I paraphrase & the denomination might be incorrect.

I don’t think Rod Stewart thought so - though it probably provided him with enough of them had he wished to do so!

[vinteuil]

"Sailing is like standing in a cold shower tearing up £10 notes" I paraphrase & the denomination might be incorrect.

... a quote I always thought was from the tea magnate Sir Thomas Lipton - "standing under a cold shower tearing up five pound notes"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Lipton

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-45548495

Though I see it's also attributed to Ted Heath.

Not, I would have thought, the Duke of Embra's kinda bag...

[Keraulophone]

non-static liners, fluid cleaning machines, cotton gloves, anti static guns and prompt stylus renewals

I don’t use any of those, just a Hunt EDA Carbon Fibre brush (which replaced a much loved but less effective Cecil E Watts Parostatik Disc Preener) and the stylus brush that came with the new cartridge (so stylus renewal is a long way off). As to my vinyl maintenance fund, two brown 10 bob notes fell out of an old diary the other day, so that should help a bit.

Re the Dream of Gerontius, I always feel uneasy about Sir Adrian Boult’s claim that The Kingdom is the greater work, because, as with the two symphonies, whichever I’m listening to at the time seems plainly the greater.

[Dave2002]

Not, I would have thought, the Duke of Embra's kinda bag...

Surely he wouldn't use tea bags!

[Cockney Sparrow]

.......Re the Dream of Gerontius, I always feel uneasy about Sir Adrian Boult’s claim that The Kingdom is the greater work, because, as with the two symphonies, whichever I’m listening to at the time seems plainly the greater.

There we are in complete agreement. I started listening to the Barbirolli DoG and Boult Kingdom on vinyl and they are among those I retained - for the booklets really....

[cloughie]

There we are in complete agreement. I started listening to the Barbirolli DoG and Boult Kingdom on vinyl and they are among those I retained - for the booklets really....

But not for Borg’s accent!

[Keraulophone]

I started listening to the Barbirolli DoG and Boult Kingdom on vinyl and they are among those I retained - for the booklets really....

Snap - those two recordings were experienced while in an undergraduate haze. Yes, the booklets in those LP boxes were excellent, in size and content. Importantly, Sir Adrian’s talk on The Kingdom and The Apostles was on side six of the latter set, which was substituted on its CD release with the Meditation from The Light of Life - another plus for vinyl.

[Keraulophone]

But not for Borg’s accent!

I love his charming accent.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Snap - those two recordings were experienced while in an undergraduate haze. Yes, the booklets in those LP boxes were excellent, in size and content. Importantly, Sir Adrian’s talk on The Kingdom and The Apostles was on side six of the latter set, which was substituted on its CD release with the Meditation from The Light of Life - another plus for vinyl.

That talk by Sir Adrian was released in the 30 CD EMI Elgar Edition.

[Keraulophone]

That talk by Sir Adrian was released in the 30 CD EMI Elgar Edition.

[richardfinegold]

I admit to being a bit perplexed by this thread. Opinions seem to be unnecessarily polarised over vinyl/analogue v digital. I have heard almost all the arguments before, but they don’t affect me in practice because all I want to do is to sit in my listening room and enjoy the music, whether that means delving into countless LPs lovingly collected from the late 1960s onwards, cassette tapes of R3 Choral Evensongs dating back to the mid-1970s some special R3 broadcasts (eg Czech PO in Dvorak 8 from RFH with horns doubling violins the the end à la Talich, Richter’s ‘heavenly length’ Schubert from Aldeburgh) and, later on, Minidiscs (R.I.P.) of the same, and, more recently, marvelling at the sound coming from audio blu-ray discs of the Ring cycle. The turntable may be the source component requiring the most careful set-up and maintenance, but it’s really not that hard to get a decent result, though I’m not sure about the OP’s ‘plug-and-play’ turntables. Cassettes often disintegrate when they get old, though some brands survive better than others. I’ve had to throw away about 500, but some playable gems remain and can be digitally preserved via Nakamichi and PC. Lastly, though I admire some LP cover art, I haven’t gone to the extent of adorning the walls with framed sleeves (eg Karajan’s DG La Mer) as in a friend’s house.

If you still have hundreds of lps from the day, retaining the ability to play them absolutely makes sense. Buying new lps at outrageous prices that were made from digital files does not. In my case, even if my lps hadn’t been destroyed, I would have tossed them any way as soon as digital replacements were available, as I was fed up with vinyl at the dawn of the CD era but would have kept my analog rig until everything had been digitalized

[cloughie]

If you still have hundreds of lps from the day, retaining the ability to play them absolutely makes sense. Buying new lps at outrageous prices that were made from digital files does not. In my case, even if my lps hadn’t been destroyed, I would have tossed them any way as soon as digital replacements were available, as I was fed up with vinyl at the dawn of the CD era but would have kept my analog rig until everything had been digitalized

Sounds sound!