Vinyl rules but thats why I keep my TTs off limits to all but me in the household. The replacement cartridges are not cheap by any means and I use Koretsu Rose which is the rarest one can get.

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99 Gurkha with OM616 IDI turbo

2015 Gurkha with OM616 DI turbo

2014 Rexton W with OM612 VGT

Ahhhh.... finally. Grado. Not as much detail as the Blue Point believe it or not but a bit bigger on the bass.

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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows - Robert A. Zimmerman

c'mon Dad..the little fella is only 5 yr old.. he doesnt know the value of your needle..i for one would be proud that he wants to be like me!!

Decent cartridge...

I'm still listening to an old MC ALpha 1 when I can. All my good stuff, TT, Acustats, C22 pre... are at the cabin. To damn noisey here.

I'm all for the vinyl's distortion.

Yes that's right. What you're hearing is distortion of the audio.

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-Typos courtesy of my mobile phone.

I love retro stuff (for the record am 22) but have not gotten into vinyls or anything like that. But I do enjoy my shaves with a straight razor, and my watches without batteries

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1985 CA 300D Turbo , 213K mi

There is no distortion on my system.

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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows - Robert A. Zimmerman

I'm 22 and I have 3 crates of vinyl in my closet but you have me beat on the razor and watch. There is just something about the warmth and color of vinyl put through a nice tube amp compared to digital recordings in a cd player, maybe its just me. Most of the old funk I listen to can't even be had on CD anyway so its $1 used vinyl basement or nothing.

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TC
Current stable:
- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth

The tube amps are the best for signal reproduction, Semiconductors are too 'fast'. When a signal change is passed through a tube, the change is 'slower', the change from one note to another is smoothed. With a semiconductor, each change is immediate, due to their speed of response.

The 'smoothness' is where the analog signal shines.

With digital sampling, even with Nyquists' Theorem, you still have that 'choppiness' due to the 'speed' of the semiconductors. Then you get into compression, or "Music with holes in it". The compression takes away something from the original, by its' inherent nature, so you have missing parts. I guess that's why the kids play such obvious crap at painful volumes, to cover up the missing pieces. It's been sampled and compressed so many times that it bears only scant relation to the original material.

Then there's the issue of synthesizers.

I remember taking in the Marantz amp for repair and having the guy who tried to pick it up almost hurt himself because of the unexpected weight. His remark was that he "forgot that they used to put stuff inside those boxes".

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It would be neat to get into but I don't think my ears are sensitive enough to appreciate it. Too many Armenian weddings!

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1985 CA 300D Turbo , 213K mi

AMEN!

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RM Smith
1988 560SL

"Where is it again that we are going, and why are we in this handbasket"?