estreeter
Super Member
I dont own a single vinyl record much less a turntable, but in a world where the CD is an endangered species having access to a brick-and-mortar shop like this gives me hope. Vinyl has a bit of a following among Thais with disposable income, but I'd previously thought that was restricted to Bangkok - you can imagine my surprise as I browsed the CDs are my local Boomerang and found myself staring at a wall festooned with vinyl albums. Note that this isnt a 'dodgy DVD' operation - unfortunately 'genuine' tends to mean imported and therefore expensive in Thailand.
http://www.boomerangshop.com/web/index.php/app/product/cate/vinyl/category/new_release/filter/stock
(1000THB is currently a little over 31USD but to working class Thais its a sizeable chunk of their monthly take-home pay - even in Bangkok)
Apparently they sell turntables too - the TD-158 isnt going to set too many hearts aflutter here FWIR, but surely it's a step in the right direction for Thai youngsters wanting to get into vinyl. I live in a tourist town, but I doubt that too many tourists are heading to the airport with an entry-level turntable in their carryon baggage
http://www.boomerangshop.com/web/index.php/app/product/fnc/detail/id/813759
Apologies for the splashscreens on those pages but this IS a DVD store - when was the last time you saw a turntable at Blockbuster ? To give folk an idea of the dross I was confronted with at a similar franchise in Australia, this is what JB Hi-Fi (a gross misnomer) have under 'Turntables' -
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/tv-home-entertainment/turntables/
Regardless of how you get your fix - and I still like to have the silver disc where possible - it's good to have choices. Anyone can import a turntable, or a tonearm/cartridge/whatever, but to have ready access to vinyl locally seems like a step in the right direction for mine even if the prices make me wince. Spent a small fortune on hi-res downloads yesterday but it was a bigger kick to see that vinyl laid out for the locals - took me back to 1978 :thmbsp:
http://www.boomerangshop.com/web/index.php/app/product/cate/vinyl/category/new_release/filter/stock
(1000THB is currently a little over 31USD but to working class Thais its a sizeable chunk of their monthly take-home pay - even in Bangkok)
Apparently they sell turntables too - the TD-158 isnt going to set too many hearts aflutter here FWIR, but surely it's a step in the right direction for Thai youngsters wanting to get into vinyl. I live in a tourist town, but I doubt that too many tourists are heading to the airport with an entry-level turntable in their carryon baggage
http://www.boomerangshop.com/web/index.php/app/product/fnc/detail/id/813759
Apologies for the splashscreens on those pages but this IS a DVD store - when was the last time you saw a turntable at Blockbuster ? To give folk an idea of the dross I was confronted with at a similar franchise in Australia, this is what JB Hi-Fi (a gross misnomer) have under 'Turntables' -
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/tv-home-entertainment/turntables/
Regardless of how you get your fix - and I still like to have the silver disc where possible - it's good to have choices. Anyone can import a turntable, or a tonearm/cartridge/whatever, but to have ready access to vinyl locally seems like a step in the right direction for mine even if the prices make me wince. Spent a small fortune on hi-res downloads yesterday but it was a bigger kick to see that vinyl laid out for the locals - took me back to 1978 :thmbsp:
