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I just wanted to play a record

A friend visited my home yesterday and asked to listen to one of my LP's. I powered up. He then said, "do you have to do all of that just to listen to a record?"

I normally don't even give it a thought as I go through my routine to power up....but this time, I realized that it is a far cry from what I had to do to listen to and LP with my first reciever.

Thirty three years ago a Sansui 771 Was my first reciever along with my Technics SL 1500 turntable. I pushed a button on the reciever and everything was on. Another switch for the turntable and I was in business. Yesterday, I realized that I had to turn on nine different components to play an LP. A preamp, four monoblocs, the turntable, the phono preamp, the servo control for my speakers and the record cleaning machine to clean the record.

He told me that I'm crazy.

He might be right.
128x128mitch4t
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driver
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...#9...#9...#9...
plato
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It definitely used to be simpler... and I have simplified things in my own systems. I leave all the front end gear powered up so that the only things I really need to turn on are the amplifiers. That way, the front end stuff is sounding its best from the get-go. You could probably do the same...
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justlisten
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30 years ago when my parents took me to the Sizzler for Steak dinner , I thought I was in gourmet heaven. today my steak needs to be fed the finest organic corn, left free to roam the field, aged for 60 days while encased in rock salt, and cooked over specially selected mesquite wood chips. (I actually am a vegatarian now, but go with it)

heck, i roast my own coffee beans and people think the same way, why do I go through so much trouble. I think they are nuts for drinking stale coffee out of a can
nickt
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We all live in a world where a month goes by in a blink of an eye! You need things like your system to slow down time and be in the moment.
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