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kleinbl00  ·  4101 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Any other Senior-Citizens-In-Training?

The sad part:

I had some vinyl. The record player blew up.

I got the books on fixing record players - the amp blew up.

I bought an RIAA preamp from Rane - had to have it shipped special from Europe because Rane stopped making it (no RoHS-approved components for some of the boards). It never worked.

And then I spot-checked a half-dozen of my records and found them all as .flac on what.cd. Considering all I was going to do was rip them and denoise them anyway, it made very little sense to keep up the charade.

Then I didn't download the flacs.

That is my sense on vinyl - fun for the gear fetishism, but not at all about the music.





cgod  ·  4100 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If I didn't have a good 50-100 albums that I couldn't get in any other format I might abandon vinyl.