Roedelheim
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Still do not understand the need for that. For the living room the streaming services offer me more than enough. In my hobby room I grab a CD or LP and all is fine.
What's your setup/configuration look like?
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slartibartfast
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It certainly isn't compulsory but that is a reason others do it. Even ripping LPs.
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Not my way
EddNog
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Okay but one rips LPs because they literally wear every time you play it
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I am 46 now. When I listen to one LP per day I would be enough material for round about 7 years. No fear that they will suffer too much damage.
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Also you can remove annoying clicks and pops. I even managed to "nudge" my stylus carefully past a sticking point on one LP and repair the resulting click. I had bought a replacement years ago which didn't sound as good as the original so now I can play the better version any time I like
Hmm,.. the Japanese pronounced it like Americans.... Aye Kee Ah.. I think, I dunno I guess, Or maybe Ee Kee Ah.. I dunno, it was next to a Donki.
Not really, if you keep your records and stylus clean, and the turntable adjusted properly those records will last for decades. I have hundreds of LPs I bought in the 70s... and more hundreds that I bought used from the 60s and even late 50s. They all play superb.
Now about ripping those LP. Yes, been there, done that, since the late 90s. I've spent literally thousands of dollars in the equipment, but then you upgrade the turntable... new tonearm, sub base, bearing, power supply, cartridge, preamp.... do you think I want to listen to my LPs they way they sounded played 30 years ago in my turntable?
So, I gave up. I just clean the LPs clean and they barely wear out if I play them every so often... I mean, it's up to 4000 by now. And Tidal HiFI gives me a good approximation with master quality streams...
So after spending years removing pops with Cubase, etc... I decided to keep the latest RME in the closet and spent an ungodly amount of money upgrading the Linn. It sounds fantastic, btw.
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Good job moving the streamers off the floor. Are those step stools? They look like they'd make good amp stands.
EddNog
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Most of your collection is probably older than I am (born in 1982).
Yup, step stools!
This TV stand actually has middle and lower shelves, but I uninstalled them in order to put the subwoofer in the dead center. In doing so, I needed something to make up for the lost shelf space, and picked these step stools out for the job. They'd probably be perfect if they were about two inches narrower, but this is fine.
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1982!
I was a big shot by then... with a college degree, a job and a credit card. ;-)
CD was starting to show its face then... that was the year my stereo and stuff was in storage most of the year while I got shipped temporary duty for almost the entire year. It was tought... living with 100 cassettes that I had recorded before I got shipped... it was a large suitcase.
I remember working a lot and drinking a lot... that was the year MTV came out and new wave and punk clubs were fun.
Thanks for the link...
We got one of these for the TV stand. I only have a center channel in its own stand and two Entec woofers under it. But you could easily do the step stool trick...
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1982.... hmm... these were some of the big hits.. the Vapors were playing fine in my Panasonic stereo when we found ourselves upside down by the outside of the curve in the '82 Scirocco.... ;-D
I was a big shot by then... with a college degree, a job and a credit card. ;-)
CD was starting to show its face then... that was the year my stereo and stuff was in storage most of the year while I got shipped temporary duty for almost the entire year. It was tought... living with 100 cassettes that I had recorded before I got shipped... it was a large suitcase.
I remember working a lot and drinking a lot... that was the year MTV came out and new wave and punk clubs were fun.
Thanks for the link...
We got one of these for the TV stand. I only have a center channel in its own stand and two Entec woofers under it. But you could easily do the step stool trick...
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1982.... hmm... these were some of the big hits.. the Vapors were playing fine in my Panasonic stereo when we found ourselves upside down by the outside of the curve in the '82 Scirocco.... ;-D
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