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Love Street

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Rounding up the early prog psych albums 1968-73
 
NiggerGPT

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Good looking turntable. I got a Thorens in storage, and looking forward to setting it up again. Steve Miller is a good listen, from the era.
 
Charles Darwin

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Love Street said:
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Rounding up the early prog psych albums 1968-73
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A record player has a higher cool factor than a digital file or even a CD player.

Over the past decade, vinyl records have made a major comeback. People purchased US$1.2 billion of records in 2022, a 20% jump from the previous year. Not only did sales rise, but they also surpassed CD sales for the first time since 1988, according to a new report from the Recording Industry Association of America.

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Love Street

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Charles Darwin said:
A record player has a higher cool factor than a digital file or even a CD player.

Over the past decade, vinyl records have made a major comeback. People purchased US$1.2 billion of records in 2022, a 20% jump from the previous year. Not only did sales rise, but they also surpassed CD sales for the first time since 1988, according to a new report from the Recording Industry Association of America.

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That’s awesome . I’d go to that store first thing if I came to the UK.
 
NiggerGPT

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Love Street said:
You may need a new cartridge/Stylus depending how much you played it in the day . I have ortofons on mine. Good quality and not crazy expensive
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Before it went into storage about 10 years ago, I was able to obtain a new old stock needle. Cost me around $175. Also have several plug in heads loaded with different combo's.

At one point, was restoring old 78s. Record them in at 45 RPM, then using software, speed them up and then DSP noise reduction.

I have about 400 MFSL half speed mastered records in storage, hope they survived. They are kept in a climate controlled storage unit. I know several of them sounded a lot better than CD's, I think there was generation loss on the backups of the master tapes. Some of the audio engineers tried to "push" the levels on CD's like they did on tape and that does not work. In the digital world, you hit the limits, there is no more. On analog, if you pushed it, usually you just got a little more distortion.
 
Love Street

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NiggerGPT said:
Before it went into storage about 10 years ago, I was able to obtain a new old stock needle. Cost me around $175. Also have several plug in heads loaded with different combo's.

At one point, was restoring old 78s. Record them in at 45 RPM, then using software, speed them up and then DSP noise reduction.

I have about 400 MFSL half speed mastered records in storage, hope they survived. They are kept in a climate controlled storage unit. I know several of them sounded a lot better than CD's, I think there was generation loss on the backups of the master tapes. Some of the audio engineers tried to "push" the levels on CD's like they did on tape and that does not work. In the digital world, you hit the limits, there is no more. On analog, if you pushed it, usually you just got a little more distortion.
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Hell yeah I’m sure they are fine. 400 mo fi ’s? Holy cow ! if they are in ex shape do you realize what you could sell them for ? but don’t do it.
Vinyl sounds better , more dynamics especially if you have a decent cartridge/stylus
 
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