Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD
Elizabeth, if you read between the lines most of us are already "geezers", including yours truly. Presently, I'm discovering a record collection that I didn't even know I had; mostly in the form of records I had written off, but after a number of upgrades, they're sounding pretty good. Enjoy the music. |
@glupson If there are armies of vinyl-obsessed people in their teens, twenties, maybe even thirties, on these forums, could you please identify yourselves. "Teens, twenties, maybe even thirties" have no idea what is a "forum", they are on instagram and facebook. They are also on record fairs every month (buying, selling and trading records) in my town. We know you exist and vinyl is the only way and digital is horrible and younger crowd threw away their iPhones and Spotify and are fighting for a better place in line while waiting for a record store to open on the day of a new release. I’m surprised to see so many digital fans in analog section of audiogon forum, but good to know. Younger crowd actually releasing their own music on vinyl, even if the music is stupid electronic crap, but it’s on vinyl released today. Some people are serious to start their own lable to release 300 LPs of each album or even less on 45s. Most of them does not have any pressing plants in their own country (if they are not in the USA, Germany, Italy, Czech...) Many young people definitely obsessed with vinyl, not all of them, but artistic people, djs, musicians, and even old audiophiles too. Wal-Mart in the USA may open vinyl department in all of the stores very soon. In fact, given the incredible resurgence of interest in vinyl, Wal-Mart is already too late to the party. And party is full of early twenty-somethings, and not of the crowd who knew nothing better than records in their youth.I’m 42 and i don’t care about digital music at all, as i said i know nothing better than vinyl and i don’t know any reason to stop buying records. Digital is just a free bonus to watch free movies, to chat, to take digital pictures, to discover music online just to buy it on vinyl later. In fact digital world helps me to find and buy whatever record i want quickly in one click from any part of the world (for this reason i love digital pretty much). If i can buy any vinyl record quickly and easily then why do i need it in digital? People normally are more serious about something they have to pay for, records for example. They don’t need a bad record if it cost something. Digital cost nothing and people download or streaming tons of information, tons of crap for nothing. My theory is quality not quantity. I only buy record if i really like the music. My obsession is vintage vinyl (mainly 70's, originals) |
"Digital cost nothing…" https://www.amazon.com/Hotel-California-EAGLES/dp/B0052VI2V6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1543969607&a... https://www.amazon.com/Hotel-California-DVD-Audio-Surround-Sound/dp/B00005T5YK/ref=sr_1_1_twi_dvd_1?... It is about your age. Slightly more expensive digital than vinyl. |
@chadsort -- to give you a direct answer to a question you posed earlier: yes, the Dynavector XX-2 mk.2 cartridge would be a much better choice for your tonearm than the Zu/Denon. the four main parts of the analog playback chain (turntable, tonearm, cartridge, and phono stage) need to work together as one organism. your VPI tonearm just isn't "heavy" enough to make the Zu/Denon work optimally, and your phono stage isn't loading the cartridge properly -- so that's two strikes against you, right there. that said, since this is your first foray into LP playback, i don't think you need to go all the way to the Dyna XX-2. try a Dyna 20X2L cartridge paired with the Dyna P75 phono stage, set to "phono enhancer" mode. this will sound good and give you a taste of what a decent vinyl rig can deliver. yes, this will cost more dough, but you've come this far already, right? |
