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Post by **Vain** » Mon Mar 06, 2017 7:39 am

So has anybody here started their own vinyl revival? I must say that I have discovered a great interest of analogue audio over the past few years.

And it's actually quite a lucrative hobby as I work my way through dozens of turntables, receivers, speakers etc - get the ones that are buggered going again and logging them - whilst continuously upgrading my own setup.

So what setup do you have?

Post by **Avatar** » Mon Mar 06, 2017 8:51 am

No vinyl.

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Post by **Vain** » Mon Mar 06, 2017 9:07 am

Of course I meant flogging instead of logging

Whaddya mean no vinyl? There's billions of the flat, black and round discs around! That's no excuse

Post by **aTOMiC** » Mon Mar 06, 2017 12:32 pm

Until a few years ago I hauled around about 75 albums whilst moving from house to house but eventually I lost the will to keep them and gave them away all except one. I still have a 4 song Cheap Trick EP called "Found All The Parts".

Post by **High Lord Tolkien** » Mon Mar 06, 2017 9:47 pm

I have an old turntable I repaired years ago and dozens of albums....I never play anything....ever.
People look at it, say it's nice but no one ever asks to turn it on to hear anything...ever.
I haven't thrown it out is for sentimental reasons.

I also have over 100GB of downloaded mp3 music but I only ever listen to a tiny fraction of it.

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 4:39 am

The GF has several hundred Gb. I have about 250 classic metal and rock tracks on a usb that lives in my car, but I don't listen to music much so...

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Post by **Vain** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 9:13 am

If you're not listening to music then what the hell are you doing?

And HLT, instead of waiting for them to ask...just put one on and let them listen. What turntable do you have?

Post by **Avatar** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 6:17 am

Driving.

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Post by **Cagliostro** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 11:47 pm

About 8 years ago (holy crap!) I bought a turntable that would transfer your music over to the computer. It sucked, but I made some modifications and got all my albums transferred over to digital and sold the vinyl. Got a heap of money, but probably not as much as I would have liked, and kinda wished I had sold it elsewhere than the grumpy douche I sold it to who almost certainly screwed me over.
I know it was 8 years ago because I bought it right before my son was born, and he is almost 8. I had a lot of vinyl and cassettes that I transferred over and now have verified it all worked. I think I finished the entire project last year or the year before.
I had a heap of music.

Post by **Avatar** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 6:23 am

Hope you keep a back-up of it.

(The problem with digital...)

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Post by **Vain** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 8:29 am

No problem with plain old records - they keep going for decades

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