Man. I miss the sound of a needle on a record....

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I'm gonna look up the Donna's now Greg.
Great storys grim and everyone else. Top thread:laughings:
 
When I started to get back into this music thing 8 months ago, the first thing I did was send my Sansui AU517 out to be recapped, throw my 35 year old SL-D2 in the trash and buy a new-in-the-box SL-1200 MKII (and a big pair of speakers).

I was so sick of listening to CD's on crappy little computer speakers with POS sub-woofers that I could kill someone. My car was the best sound system I had and it sucked.

I listen to lots of cd's, which sound fine on a good system, but I also have 600 records on vinyl (and yeah, first edition Ramones albums from when they were first released), and it is very rewarding to take the time to listen to a vinyl disc.

I still buy a few discs on vinyl when I run across them, as well.

I told the kids at work about it, and they're like, so you listen to the whole thing through without changing tracks? :D

Magnetic tapes? Meh.
 
kip4 said:
I'm gonna look up the Donna's now Greg.
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Allison Robertson....smokin.
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Telegram Sam said:
When I started to get back into this music thing 8 months ago, the first thing I did was send my Sansui AU517 out to be recapped, throw my 35 year old SL-D2 in the trash and buy a new-in-the-box SL-1200 MKII (and a big pair of speakers).
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Cool, I also own a Sansui AU517 and a pair of Bose 501s. I also have a pair of Kenwood KL-A700 speakers but the 15" woofers need reconed and I can't seem to find any place that will do that for a reasonable price. I run my computer audio through a RCA STA-3900, 200 watt stereo receiver.
 
It's a sweet sounding amp, I use it for my recording studio too.
 
I was looking up a song on Youtube, and heard the unmistakable sound of vinyl, which brought back a few memories.

A few posters have been mentioning Sansui. My first (and only) turntable was a Sansui. It cost me a fortune at the time. It has all these cool counterweights and shiny bits. http://www.sansui.us/images/Turntables/SR2050_2.jpg

Round about the same time I bought a Sansui amp; AU 101, which I've still got and which still drives my stereo.

This was all around the early seventies, so the stuff has lasted nearly half a century.

Sadly the vinyl hasn't, and I don't think I have any in the house at all.
 
If you miss so much (And I'm NOT trying to be a smart ass) Try recording the opening noise/clicks a couple of records and loop them together, then mix them in to a current project. Could be cool to have a retro LP mix.
 
darscuzlo said:
If you miss so much (And I'm NOT trying to be a smart ass) Try recording the opening noise/clicks a couple of records and loop them together, then mix them in to a current project. Could be cool to have a retro LP mix.
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That might be cool. At least have the sound of a needle hitting the vinyl at the beginning, and then that constant skipping sound at the very end of the album. :D
 
RAMI said:
That might be cool. At least have the sound of a needle hitting the vinyl at the beginning, and then that constant skipping sound at the very end of the album. :D
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I did that effect on the first digital home recording I ever made. It was just a surf instrumental. Cubase had some insert effect that made shit sound old. It sounded like a scratchy record through one of those old hand cranked phonographs with the big horn on top. Sounded cool.
 
Grim,
You say Irish Folk Rock, I say HORSLIPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I remember when suddenly every album had a poster of the band in the sleeve as well as the album!
Big flash in the pan PR move.
 
Greg_L said:
This whole thread is full of kids of yesteryear that never listened to music the way kids of today do.
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Agreed. But would they comprize the majority ? I don't dispute that listening habits are different today in some aspects. It's just that some of the things we cite as evidence of the differences, I remember in loads of people back in the 70s and 80s. I recall a clear divide between the few deep albums people and the singles or "one or two songs off an album" people.

moresound said:
I remember when suddenly every album had a poster of the band in the sleeve as well as the album!
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Yeah, now that you mention it, I do as well. I remember the one that came with Nazareth's "Rampant" and the one that came with Van Halen's "Women and children first".

rayc said:
Grim,
You say Irish Folk Rock, I say HORSLIPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Although folk rock rock didn't start with them, for me, Horslips are the Alpha and Omega of Irish folk rock. Spud were hot, Mushroom were great but Horslips were rock and royal ! Few bands I have come across have put together 5 consecutive great albums like they did with their first 5. If I was to be marooned on a desert island, "The Tain", "Dancehall sweethearts" and "The unfortunate cup of tea" had better be with me or there'd be trouble.
 
grimtraveller said:
Agreed. But would they comprize the majority ? I don't dispute that listening habits are different today in some aspects. It's just that some of the things we cite as evidence of the differences, I remember in loads of people back in the 70s and 80s. I recall a clear divide between the few deep albums people and the singles or "one or two songs off an album" people.
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I don't. Maybe I just ran with like-minded people. I don't recall anyone being a greatest hits kind of guy.
 
grimtraveller said:
Agreed. But would they comprize the majority ? I don't dispute that listening habits are different today in some aspects. It's just that some of the things we cite as evidence of the differences, I remember in loads of people back in the 70s and 80s. I recall a clear divide between the few deep albums people and the singles or "one or two songs off an album" people.

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nowadays it's more like, "halfway listen to the first verse' people.
I hang with kids semi-often since they wanna show me the music they like and we are sorta sit-in parents for a few kids here in DeLand who are from out of town.
They don't sit and listen, as in focusing on the music, at all!.
Not one of them ever listenes to an entire song or, if they do, it's because they weren't listening so as background music it's allowed to play out.
But anytime they bring a song over for me to hear I just about have to beat them to hear more than half a verse.
 
Lt. Bob said:
nowadays it's more like, "halfway listen to the first verse' people.
I hang with kids semi-often since they wanna show me the music they like and we are sorta sit-in parents for a few kids here in DeLand who are from out of town.
They don't sit and listen, as in focusing on the music, at all!.
Not one of them ever listenes to an entire song or, if they do, it's because they weren't listening so as background music it's allowed to play out.
But anytime they bring a song over for me to hear I just about have to beat them to hear more than half a verse.
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Yup. I don't think even my own kids listen to a song from beginning to end. Nevermind a whole album. It's skip, skip, skip, or they walk around with one earbud hanging out with the other in just as background filler. I hate it. Here I am, the rockingest motherfucker they know, and not even I, Greg the Great, can get through to them. I buy the books, send em to school, and they just eat the paper. :laughings:
 
Lt. Bob said:
nowadays it's more like, "halfway listen to the first verse' people.

They don't sit and listen, as in focusing on the music, at all!.
Not one of them ever listenes to an entire song or, if they do, it's because they weren't listening so as background music it's allowed to play out.
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I had friends like that. They used to drive me to murderous thoughts ! Much of it was genre based though. You know, the reggae heads saying "get that babylon shit off" if I put on Led Zeppelin or the disco boppers freaking out after 40 seconds of Pink Floyd psychedelia ! :D
 
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