For the Hi-Fi enthusiasts among us...

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My watch doesn't need service - it's still running! 😜
Cobbler’s children…how many turntables have I’m serviced in the last decade yet mine looked like cosmoline in the bearing 🙄
 
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It’s Alive!!
Very nice, congrats! Looks like it takes a 12AT7, 6BN4A, and some 6AU6's (awesome that Mac keeps their service manuals online) - what are you gonna use? Looks to be in nice shape.
 
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Very nice, congrats! Looks like it takes a 12AT7, 6BN4A, and some 6AU6's (awesome that Mac keeps their service manuals online) - what are you gonna use? Looks to be in nice shape.
Already loaded with RCA’s and Telefunkens.

What’s funny is I have two of them, I had both overhauled by Terry Dewick about a decade ago and one is in use in the my office. I cleaned it up and did the led build replacement etc back then- this one just languished on the shelf. So I saw it looking sad and filthy and decided to tear it apart. I noticed the festoon bulbs were shedding their white backed paint so went online to see what bulbs it takes and found a thread that I wrote about the other one back in 2018! Apparently I bought two sets of bulbs- which is don’t remember. So I went into by workbench cupboard into the box labeled “bulbs” and sure enough- there they were.
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Already loaded with RCA’s and Telefunkens.
Do you have a U-47? With leather?
 
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Yet another new to me LP12. Sold my Rega and selling my other LP12.

 
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I’m reliving my childhood. 6$ each for the woofers and a few stickers and prepare for razzle dazzle!
 
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The funny thing about hifi is that by the time you can afford decent hifi your hearing is too buggered to appreciate it! 🤣
 
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The funny thing about hifi is that by the time you can afford decent hifi your hearing is too buggered to appreciate it! 🤣

When I was a poor post-doc I started to bild my components myself. Fell with a really bad DYI crowd.
Results were wonderful!!
I have TERES TT to sell 😎
 
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Not sure many would argue, pretty good discussion on this topic on darko audio podcast at some point in the last year

But as the linked article states, it's all about the mix

"Some vinyl releases are mastered differently than their digital counterparts, sometimes with less compression or different EQ adjustments. This can contribute to a unique listening experience, but it’s not an inherent quality of the format itself."

There are without doubt vinyl pressings that sound superior to their cd/streamed counterparts, that said there are poor, very poor pressings too.

The rabbit hole of DSOTM is a good example of this, it's deep and complex, there are certain cd re issues (japanese) and certain vinyl.pressings (30th) that are a cut above the rest with easily audible differences.

Let's not even open the MSFL can of worms
 
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Not sure many would argue,
That has not been my experience...I cannot tell you how many people have told me that vinyl is more "pure" than anything digital, not understanding that digital has been there for far longer than they ever imagined.
 
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Yes, interesting that this is “news“ again. This made the internet rounds over 15 years ago. This post is painted with a very broad brush. Not all cutting studios used it, and there were other technologies available. But it does explain why so many 80s albums sound like they do.

This is a lot like the tube vs transistor debate too.
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And digital tracking (actually going from mic to mixer to [digital] tape) was right there at the beginning of the 80's a well.

Many hung on to the 24-track 2" analogue machines, but most of the bigger studios went to the MASSIVE digital machines.
 
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That has not been my experience...I cannot tell you how many people have told me that vinyl is more "pure" than anything digital, not understanding that digital has been there for far longer than they ever imagined.
My Stevie Wonder tribute album by the Anita Kerr Singers from 1979 proudly shows the Sony digital recorder they used.
 
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It either sounds good, or it doesn't. How we get there doesn't matter much to me...
 
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It either sounds good, or it doesn't. How we get there doesn't matter much to me...
Indeed - what sounds great to one person will not to another. As long as you find what works best for you, that's all that matters.
 
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Indeed - what sounds great to one person will not to another. As long as you find what works best for you, that's all that matters.
I have listened to recorded music for more than fifty years. Almost any opinion I have was shared by my roommates, friends and my wife. Of course some different opinions exist, but by and large we always agree on good vs. not-so-good audio.