In article , David Looser
scribeth thus
"Serge Auckland" wrote in message
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Or, as in my case, as a bit of fun, nostalgia perhaps. The above story of
recording FM was almost exactly my experience, only I used a carefully
calibrated Nakamachi 482Z, rather than a Revox. LPs used to frustrate me
intensely, and CDs were the answer to all my desires (well, some of them
anyway) at the time. Now, almost 25 years later, I'm enjoying LPs again. I
can now put up with the clicks, bangs etc etc because I have a clean
unsullied source (CDs) whenever I want it. I find it an intellectual
challenge to get half-decent sounds from LPs, knowing that when I just
want to listen to music, I have my CDs. Fortunately, my tastes in music
(mostly classical and Jazz) means that I can still buy CDs that haven't
been compressed excessively or clipped. However, I make sure any
blues/classic rock CDs I might buy haven't been remastered since 1995.

I now have four turntables and approach playing LPs in the same spirit as
driving vintage cars, old mechanical wrist watches or fountain pens (of
which I also have several). LPs from Charity Shops and car boot sales also
allow me to discover new music at bargain prices. It's surprising how well
old LPs clean up with a vacuum Record Cleaning Machine.

Some people seem actually to prefer vinyl to CD, I don't, but can still
have fun with my LPs.

Like you I am now playing LPs again. It started when my wife threatened to
get rid of my LP collection away since I never played them, so I started
copying some of them to CDR and found that I quite enjoyed doing that,
particularly trying to get rid of as many clicks etc as possible without
damaging the sound. And again like you I like vintage technology, I have a
1950s Bush TV22 in my den which I sometimes fire up so that I can watch TV
in wonderful 405-line monochrome, though I don't try to pretend that it's
better than a modern colour TV!

You manage to pick up an old 405 line TX then?.

And standards converter;?...

David.



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Tony Sayer