New Toy, I made it myself :)

[Saracen]

That's a very good buy, even for a decent chopping board let alone a nice TT platter.

[vicar]

Well done, and to many hours of joyful listening.

[Saracen]

I saw something in Sainsbury's today for the first time in years - a rack of records. LPs. Actual, honest-to-God vinyl.

I suspect what I thought wascthe store's main door was actually a time portal to 40 years ago.

Except the prices. They were definitely more 2017 than 1977.

[Biscuit]

I saw something in Sainsbury's today for the first time in years - a rack of records. LPs. Actual, honest-to-God vinyl.

I suspect what I thought wascthe store's main door was actually a time portal to 40 years ago.

Except the prices. They were definitely more 2017 than 1977.

Its made a huge come back, and you have the hipsters to thank.

I think the modern culture of possetion and objectivity have given people the desire to want feeling and emotion from more than just the music itself, but the act of playing and owning the music.

I personally don't get it, If i want visual and physical artistic stimuation then ill go to a museum, sculpture park or drive down the road to the moors/dales. When it comes to the act of playing music, I want convenience and efficiency. Records fullfill neither of these parameters, and im yet to hear an argument that offers any scientific reason why they are better.

[g8ina]

Biscuit, come and listen, you will then understand

[Biscuit]

Biscuit, come and listen, you will then understand

Generous offer, but I've heard plenty of high quality record players over the years so it would be wasted on me. Its like the film vs digital cinema argument, it always boils down to a "feeling".

[postpeter]

Wow it looks so much better than the old one my parents owned. It still works quite ok, but it's not the same

[bledd]

Cool!

I currently own one record, NWA - Straight Outta Compton, but I've never owned a record player to play it

[DanceswithUnix]

Biscuit, come and listen, you will then understand

Sadly the record decks I see on sale around town look like be cheap plastic USB affairs designed to try and make converting records to mp3 so that you can get the worst of both worlds: all the clicks and crackles of vinyl into a compressed digital file that won't even have the nice cover artwork etc you expect in a native digital copy.

The HiFi shops have pretty much gone, there are still some Richer Sounds shops within a half hour drive, but not sure where I would buy a turntable these days. My Dual unit is in the loft, it hasn't spun for over a decade so might no longer work.

All the brushes next to the turntable remind me why I switched to CD despite thinking they don't sound as nice, the constant cleaning and brushing just got to me.

But mostly these days I only get to listen to music in the car, and that doesn't even have a CD player any more as even they are considered obsolete, so I listen to DAB radio.

I guess there are still enough old record decks out there to support all these records I see for sale. Not that I have seen anyone actually buying one yet.

[bertaluk]

amazing where did you buy it?

[Reke]

Awesome

[g8ina]

amazing where did you buy it?

Twit.

Title says "New Toy **I made it myself**

as in, you know, making it myself, as opposed to not buying from a shop.

[g8ina]

Oh and btw, it IS Oak, I went back to the Kitchen guys and asked em