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Is that Don Rickles on the left?
watchnerd
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I like my turntable and enjoy listening to vinyl.
I appreciate the unique combination of expense, inconvenience, physical storage space needed, nostalgia for an era I never lived in, persnickety set up needs, propensity to have my housecleaner destroy my expensive cartridge, and snob-appeal.
If I ever have any tweaky impulses, I can vent them on my turntable setup (suspension tweaking, speed adjustment, tube rolling, VTA tweaking) that both scratches the itch to fiddle and has more point than messing with my digital chain.
I also enjoy the way LPs sound.
But I don't think they're technically superior.
I appreciate the unique combination of expense, inconvenience, physical storage space needed, nostalgia for an era I never lived in, persnickety set up needs, propensity to have my housecleaner destroy my expensive cartridge, and snob-appeal.
If I ever have any tweaky impulses, I can vent them on my turntable setup (suspension tweaking, speed adjustment, tube rolling, VTA tweaking) that both scratches the itch to fiddle and has more point than messing with my digital chain.
I also enjoy the way LPs sound.
But I don't think they're technically superior.
That's a good enough reason.
That's a good enough disclaimer.
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Mr. Fremer is intelligible (so to speak) at x1.5 speed on YouTube. Can't do that with a turntable, he'd sound like a chipmunk.
Ok, I listened to the whole thing. For those that didn't (I resisted until now):
Executive Summary:
Business is good in vinyl and turntables.
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After 5 minutes (7.5 minutes in real time) I had reach the conclusion you did Ray. Stopped listening wondering if anything else of note would be said. So thanks Ray. You saved me like another 40 minutes of my life.
watchnerd
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Perhaps the most important note is that he mentions all the new presses coming on line; previously capacity was tight enough that new releases often had to wait 6 months for a slot.
Indeed he didn't say anything other than LP is a growing business. I think this was at some economic meeting so that focus may have been fine for him but for me, it was boring.
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