Chadnliz,
That's a horrible thing to say about postal employees. All the USPS workers I've crossed paths with have been terrific - intelligent, courteous and dedicated.
I find people are far more surprised to learn that I'm still using tubes than still buying and playing vinyl. Lots of people still have a few LPs around, and sometimes even a turntable, but almost no one has tubes any more. Just as with records, the question is always "Why?", and the answer is "Because I like the way they sound."
More than once these conversations have led to people either giving or selling me their LPs or old stashes of tubes. They always enjoy knowing they're going to someone who loves and appreciates them as much as they once did.
I have a friend here with 2-3000 mostly jazz LPs that he rarely listens to, and when he does plays them on an old Radio Shack tabletop console, with the original stylus and no record cleaning ever. I've offered to pay him, but he can't bear to part with any of them.
Sigh...
David
That's a horrible thing to say about postal employees. All the USPS workers I've crossed paths with have been terrific - intelligent, courteous and dedicated.
I find people are far more surprised to learn that I'm still using tubes than still buying and playing vinyl. Lots of people still have a few LPs around, and sometimes even a turntable, but almost no one has tubes any more. Just as with records, the question is always "Why?", and the answer is "Because I like the way they sound."
More than once these conversations have led to people either giving or selling me their LPs or old stashes of tubes. They always enjoy knowing they're going to someone who loves and appreciates them as much as they once did.
I have a friend here with 2-3000 mostly jazz LPs that he rarely listens to, and when he does plays them on an old Radio Shack tabletop console, with the original stylus and no record cleaning ever. I've offered to pay him, but he can't bear to part with any of them.
Sigh...
David