When I sit back and listen to something from my babied selection of LP's, especially when it is not available on CD's, I am happy. Since I spent half a century perfecting my system with multiple, switchable, sub crossovers form matched amps and preamps to my main speakers, and the mechanical, not electronic tone controls for both pairs of speakers, that help all sources sound better, I thank my lucky life that my Dad was an electrical engineer, as well as a small town movie theater and juke box company owner. With both movie sound (A skinny, three foot tall, GE tube amp), and his Seeburgs, Wurtlizers, and RockOla's, I most certainly was exposed to horrible sound at an early age.
Is it all worth it?
Do you ever get the feeling when you start to question whether playing records is really worth it all?
You know with everything involved with great record playback.
The setup, the cleaning regime, the $1000 plus cartridges that start their finite lifespan as soon as stylus first touches vinyl and spirals into less and less value with every play.
All the tweaks involved, cables, mats, isolation etc.
Then the media itself with it's inevitable disapointments.
Don't you just like to push a couple buttons on your phone app and be listening to great sound with a worldwide catalogue at your fingertips.
Or is it that when all of it lines up and the sounds are just sublime, then yes you sit back with a wry smile and say...
Yep, it's all worth it!
You know with everything involved with great record playback.
The setup, the cleaning regime, the $1000 plus cartridges that start their finite lifespan as soon as stylus first touches vinyl and spirals into less and less value with every play.
All the tweaks involved, cables, mats, isolation etc.
Then the media itself with it's inevitable disapointments.
Don't you just like to push a couple buttons on your phone app and be listening to great sound with a worldwide catalogue at your fingertips.
Or is it that when all of it lines up and the sounds are just sublime, then yes you sit back with a wry smile and say...
Yep, it's all worth it!
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