Fast_Eddie
Upper-middle fi
Ok, I'll admit it. I didn't know what the big deal was. I listened to records when I was a kid on a cheap-o fisher TT with whatever cheap p mount cart came on it. Thought they sounded fine. When I got my first generation Sony Diskman (wish I had hung on to that!) I thought it was light years ahead of what I had! Well, it was- but, as Paul Harvey would say, this is the rest of the story.
My folks never had a good stereo, and the stuff I cobbled together in my room was the best sounding gear we had. I just didn't know! Even when I joined AK, I thought you vinyl guys were nutts. Sure, vinyl is neat, and the ritual of cleaning the disk and dropping the needle is lots of fun, but sounds better than a CD? Are you high?
But, I have all these records I've lugged all over the country, and the SL 1200 I got for free from a TV station I worked at. Ok, well, I don't want to mess up my vinyl, so I'll get a cart, but I'm not spending a fortune.
So, on advice from Ovenmaster, I bought my Ortofon Super OM 10 for like $60 or something. It's taken me a while to figure it all out, but I'll be damed if the records don't sound better than the CDs! I'm so hooked I can hardly stand it! It's the saxaphones, man, I can't stand a sax on a CD now. There's absolutely no life in it. They must have all kinds of harmonics going on. But even rock n roll is better on vinyl. I'm listening to Mott The Hoople on vinyl right now. It sounds great!
So, who knows. I may end up buying one of those high dough carts someday, but for now, I'm diggin what I got, and it does sound better than my CDs! Geez, I guess I need to listen to better CD players now to be fair.
Just wanted to testify. Can I get an Amen?!
Take care,
Ed
My folks never had a good stereo, and the stuff I cobbled together in my room was the best sounding gear we had. I just didn't know! Even when I joined AK, I thought you vinyl guys were nutts. Sure, vinyl is neat, and the ritual of cleaning the disk and dropping the needle is lots of fun, but sounds better than a CD? Are you high?
But, I have all these records I've lugged all over the country, and the SL 1200 I got for free from a TV station I worked at. Ok, well, I don't want to mess up my vinyl, so I'll get a cart, but I'm not spending a fortune.
So, on advice from Ovenmaster, I bought my Ortofon Super OM 10 for like $60 or something. It's taken me a while to figure it all out, but I'll be damed if the records don't sound better than the CDs! I'm so hooked I can hardly stand it! It's the saxaphones, man, I can't stand a sax on a CD now. There's absolutely no life in it. They must have all kinds of harmonics going on. But even rock n roll is better on vinyl. I'm listening to Mott The Hoople on vinyl right now. It sounds great!
So, who knows. I may end up buying one of those high dough carts someday, but for now, I'm diggin what I got, and it does sound better than my CDs! Geez, I guess I need to listen to better CD players now to be fair.
Just wanted to testify. Can I get an Amen?!
Take care,
Ed