Glad you like everything, man! I had a good time picking and getting everything.blackula wrote:Thank you Thoreau! Your gifts are awesome! I'm wearing my new Beatles shirt while drinking your favorite coffee in my new Black Flag coffee mug! Nice choice on the DVD, I used to have the first Blacula on VHS but that is long gone. You know me better than most relatives in terms of gift giving!
SR wrote:That is a really wonderful gift.
And I like your annual blow by blow.
That gear looks coooooolll....Mescal wrote:What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got little save pitiful portable picnic players. Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited.
With all these records ... I decided to invest in a good audio set up
It’s a clearaudio turntable and a CEC tube amp
hahah i dunno if i can afford to change the way I hear music... A nicer stereo would be cool though. We currently have a Pioneer 5.1 DVD Home Theater thingy.Mescal wrote:A cd on a good sounding set will sound just as good as a vinyl.
It’s just the experience . . . It’s different .. . It makes me more involved with the music. Hard to explain I guess.
I was tired of all these mp 3’s sounding crappy and I hate spotify, something with everything being available, playlist etc, but in the end you have no idea what you want to listen to . I just flip through my records and put something on. I mostly listen to one side, then flip through my records again ...
Your record player is a dj turntable, so it’ll do the job nicely. But if you’re really into music, do yourself a favour, go to a high end audio shop and take your favourite cd/record with you, your listening experience will change forever. It’s like you were always used to driving a ford focus, and suddenly you feel how it’s like driving a maserati. It’s also a car, but then again it’s not
um....yeah. that stuff isn't cheap. i would assume you have really nice speakers too.Mescal wrote: With all these records ... I decided to invest in a good audio set up
It’s a clearaudio turntable and a CEC tube amp
Awesome pics! Totally agree about vinyl. I have 3 kids, 4, 2 and 2 months. I don't want them growing up thinking music is some bullshit ITunes single. Same as you in my house, 1 sides up and I'm most likely putting something else on. It's awesome seeing what sticks out to my 4 year old. He likes Bowie, MC5 and the Stooges. He may end up listening to shitty rap like stiches, but for now he's into cool stuff and asks me to put records on.Mescal wrote:A cd on a good sounding set will sound just as good as a vinyl.
It’s just the experience . . . It’s different .. . It makes me more involved with the music. Hard to explain I guess.
I was tired of all these mp 3’s sounding crappy and I hate spotify, something with everything being available, playlist etc, but in the end you have no idea what you want to listen to . I just flip through my records and put something on. I mostly listen to one side, then flip through my records again ...
Your record player is a dj turntable, so it’ll do the job nicely. But if you’re really into music, do yourself a favour, go to a high end audio shop and take your favourite cd/record with you, your listening experience will change forever. It’s like you were always used to driving a ford focus, and suddenly you feel how it’s like driving a maserati. It’s also a car, but then again it’s not
Well, you don't have to buy everything at once.nausearockpig wrote:hahah i dunno if i can afford to change the way I hear music... A nicer stereo would be cool though. We currently have a Pioneer 5.1 DVD Home Theater thingy.Mescal wrote:A cd on a good sounding set will sound just as good as a vinyl.
It’s just the experience . . . It’s different .. . It makes me more involved with the music. Hard to explain I guess.
I was tired of all these mp 3’s sounding crappy and I hate spotify, something with everything being available, playlist etc, but in the end you have no idea what you want to listen to . I just flip through my records and put something on. I mostly listen to one side, then flip through my records again ...
Your record player is a dj turntable, so it’ll do the job nicely. But if you’re really into music, do yourself a favour, go to a high end audio shop and take your favourite cd/record with you, your listening experience will change forever. It’s like you were always used to driving a ford focus, and suddenly you feel how it’s like driving a maserati. It’s also a car, but then again it’s not
I have vintage Kef speakers which I'm attached to. But I did buy an extra woofercreep wrote:um....yeah. that stuff isn't cheap. i would assume you have really nice speakers too.Mescal wrote: With all these records ... I decided to invest in a good audio set up
It’s a clearaudio turntable and a CEC tube amp
cool pics
Thanks again for the great gift! Nothing pleases me more than a great record!blackula wrote:
Awesome pics! Totally agree about vinyl. I have 3 kids, 4, 2 and 2 months. I don't want them growing up thinking music is some bullshit ITunes single. Same as you in my house, 1 sides up and I'm most likely putting something else on. It's awesome seeing what sticks out to my 4 year old. He likes Bowie, MC5 and the Stooges. He may end up listening to shitty rap like stiches, but for now he's into cool stuff and asks me to put records on.
Glad you finally got the record, sorry for the lateness!
I think this is subjective. Unless you have a great ear, in my own personal experience, your ear can't tell the difference from the different compressions (I'm talking about mp3, I prefer how vinyls sound, too). But I love seeing others audio equipment.Mescal wrote:Well, you don't have to buy everything at once.nausearockpig wrote:hahah i dunno if i can afford to change the way I hear music... A nicer stereo would be cool though. We currently have a Pioneer 5.1 DVD Home Theater thingy.Mescal wrote:A cd on a good sounding set will sound just as good as a vinyl.
It’s just the experience . . . It’s different .. . It makes me more involved with the music. Hard to explain I guess.
I was tired of all these mp 3’s sounding crappy and I hate spotify, something with everything being available, playlist etc, but in the end you have no idea what you want to listen to . I just flip through my records and put something on. I mostly listen to one side, then flip through my records again ...
Your record player is a dj turntable, so it’ll do the job nicely. But if you’re really into music, do yourself a favour, go to a high end audio shop and take your favourite cd/record with you, your listening experience will change forever. It’s like you were always used to driving a ford focus, and suddenly you feel how it’s like driving a maserati. It’s also a car, but then again it’s not
But again, it will be well worth it.
Like I said, go to a hifi shop, and listen to your favourite record. It'll be an eye opener (it was for me anyway). Ok it was a +- 50.000 € setup or something, but when I heard Machine Gun blasting through the speakers ... It wasn 't only the notes Jimi was playing, I could actually hear him touching his strings and hitting the notes ... and then when Buddy Miles comes in with the snare ... it was like I was actually in the audience. It was nothing compared to anything I heard before, and I already had a nice setup and vinyl collection.
YAAAHHHGGGHHH!!! Fingerprints on the record! FINGERPRINTS. ON. THE. RECORD!!!Mescal wrote:
Ha, yeah, I might not have the clearest handwriting.Larry B. wrote:
First of all, it was great receiving the letter and trying to decipher what Mescal had written... but after two or three hours I came to the conclusion that he was essentially saying "Merry Christmas".
