Unfortunately that kind of dead, vacuum space doesn't exist in the concert hall. These halls are full of people and air, and vinyl best portrays, to me, that reality.
disco... the Bee Gees and Donna Summers, love those! y Pandora stays on EWF
Such beautiful tables. You have, as I, expensive tastes my friend. Here's one of my table, a VPI Classic 4. I have a Shelter Harmony.but the same outfit also does several different refurbishments of the Technics tables. Here's one:
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Not saying these are the world's most expensive or best turntables, but they do a really job on some cool vintage decks
Here's the one from VPI I'm currently drooling over. I heard it in action at the last NYC Audio Show.
Here's my friend Marshall's which I drool over regularly. It's a little more affordable (a little) than the Titan. Arm included. The Kronos Sparta.but the same outfit also does several different refurbishments of the Technics tables. Here's one:
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Here's what we had in our living room growing up. A complete system. Who could want more?Back in my youth, my parents spun their disks on something like this little baby. You could stack up a bunch of 45s with a quick switch-over to LPs. Very convenient with it's own handle. You could even have music in the kitchen if you wanted.
We thought it was high tech.....
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Why two tonearms? Two cartridges optimized for different types of music?Here's the one from VPI I'm currently drooling over. I heard it in action at the last NYC Audio Show.
Many audiophiles have two arms on tables that allow for it, some up a to 4 arms, for multiple purposes: For different types of music, for mono and stereo, in order to have different cartridges (because boy, do these things sound different) for status, because they got like that etc. I would love to have another arm with a quality mono cartridge. I believe the VPI Titan can hold up to 3 arms. Harry Weisfeld who makes and owns VPI along with his son Mat (both whom I've met many times) are fans I believe of the new Air Tight Magnum Opus, which I have heard in a shoot out with their PC-1. Yeah, the MO is leaps and bounds above the PC-1, but the cost of entry for either is eye crossingly expensive. I even stuttered when I heard the MO's price.
We had the very same system when I was growing up in Indiana.Here's what we had in our living room growing up. A complete system. Who could want more?
Note I did say "eye crossiingly expensive". I still stutter when I mention their prices. I also stutter when I hear them in action."Affordable" is a relative term. By my standards NONE of these are attainable
That apparently was Hi Tech. I keep looking for the crank---NOW that was Hi Tech, at the extreme. Mica reproducers, does the world get better than that??Back in my youth, my parents spun their disks on something like this little baby. You could stack up a bunch of 45s with a quick switch-over to LPs. Very convenient with it's own handle. You could even have music in the kitchen if you wanted.
We thought it was high tech.....
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We had something similar, but with a 9” tv in the center. Made before 1949. Don’t remember what my parents did with it. I know the turntable was used for many years.Here's what we had in our living room growing up. A complete system. Who could want more?
Here's the TV I watched Merrytoon Circus, Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Greenjean's.
And let's not forget that as good as some of those turntables are, the real celebrated analog technology among the audiophiles these days is reel-to-reel tape. Do you want this machine, an old TASCAM that's been extremely heavily modified with brand new heads and circuitry all around?
It will only set you back $21,000 or so.
Want some albums for your $21k tape player, playing at 15 inches per second? (normal consumer tape players back in the day played at 7.5 or 3.75 inches per second) As it turns out, they have started making some albums in this format. They will only set you back four or five hundred dollars each.
edit: This is a nice video on the subject, covering the history of reel-to-reel formats and the newer extremely expensive audiophile variant of it:
Very nice of you to say.
