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- other than about 4 vinyls which have never been played - for about 5 years and I’ve never not been able to play it.
Streaming is just such a convenient solution. I haven't seen any stats but I’m guessing in the last few years - aside from the resurgence of vinyl - physical music sales have gone through the floor ?
Vinyl is also re-surging from "bugger all", so does not compare in sales to the "sales" figures of streaming.
This is arguably why someone like Tay Tay makes a big fuss about avoiding streaming, so everyone buys her CDs (and Vinyl) when she is making her big fuss, then she gets another massive boost when she does launch onto streaming.
It's all business really, the amazing thing about Vinyl is it has got people paying £20+ for albums again, which is delicious for the music industry, especially since so much of it is catalogue.
I disagree about the 2-3k price range being where it's at, that's not true, with a well setup P3 you'll get 99% of the same experience.
Also, don't discount vintage 70-80s players, most of them are fantastic value for money.
I'm currently using a Thorens TD160 (Slightly upgraded) playing through a Technics SU-7300 Amp and it sounds great.
http://www.emporiumhifi.com/head-office-norfolk-suffolk/rega-planar-3-turntable-with-rb300-arm/
http://www.emporiumhifi.com/pre-owned/hart-audio-lindley-hood-mm-mc-phonostage-with-psu/
https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/BRAND-NEW-DENON-DL-103R-EQUAL-L-R-CHANNEL-MOVING-COIL-MC-PHONO-CARTRIDGE/111615584616?epid=1034756602&hash=item19fccea968:g:0KcAAOxyEqNTmH55
See if Emporium will do a deal on the deck and preamp (the deck used to be mine - it’s amazing), and you’re off. Ok that’s 800 not 500 but it’s very good.
For 3k or slightly more, I’d go for a bottom-of-the-range Kuzma deck, with Kuzma’s own tonearm or a ‘cheap’ SME arm or similar, and a Koetsu black cartridge, plus a £500 MC preamp. That’d take you from 70% to 90% sound quality. Or you could blow 10k with the top of the range versions of the above - a Kuzma reference, an SME V and a Koetsu Onyx or something. That’d take you to 95%. 99% costs 40k ...
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
They were only about £5 each and absolutely perfect for...well, framing a record !
They now sell for upwards of £25 a piece on eBay(!) how utterly ridiculous.
So now if I ever want more than 3 on the wall I have to find a new range of frames. Anyone else frame vinyl on the wall that can recommend a suitable frame?
Personally, I've not been able to listen to my LPs for over a year due to living arrangements, and not once have I pined to do so. Every now and then I flirt with the idea of selling them, but I have the feeling I'd regret if I did. At the moment they're just sat on a shelf doing nothing.
They're a nice thing to have, but I'm yet to be convinced that they're the best format in terms of sound quality. It might be controversial to some, but I'm quite partial to digital offerings. To my ear it sounds good. A lot cheaper too.
Vinyl gives you big packages made out of nice soft coated board, with nice shiny platters that you have to handle with care and an amount of love or you mess them up. This makes your music physically feel more valuable, so it is more in tune with what your emotional attachment to that music is like.
The recent resurgence of Vinyl is the above combined with a certain rejection of the totally physical and ownership free world of digital streaming, which alongside you tube is taking over music consumption for kids.
CD, apart from the horror of the jewel case, remains technically damn near perfect for storage and reproduction of sounds we can actually hear, though some hi-fi enthusiasts maintain there are "harmonics" caused by sound outside our hearing range bouncing around and becoming modulated to become audible. This to me is like the following: -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGf0AHky0Os
Also you are unlikely to miss them even if there is truth in it.... but hi-res audio is for you if you believe in it all... unless you feel the way it is encoded actually makes it worse, which you can find a convincing case for online.
Streaming quality is extremely good as well, very few, although some, can detect the difference between the 320kbps OGG files used by Spotify, for example, and CD. MP3 at high bitrates is just fine, and in fact above 192kbps will be transparent for most people in most environments. Apple's AAC at anything over 128kbps is also very good...