Help me, I just bought a turntable

Damocles_Sword said:
your frame and features becoming more feminine
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Impossible. I would probably have to go full HRT or be a manlet.
ObeseScreamingBlackMan said:
lol couldn't even spring for an SL-10 or SL-15?

Scrub.
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It's what was on ebay.
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Quick, counter the hipsterness with autistic bullshit!
But beware! Falsely dosed you might turn into a tumblrina.
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I already post on KF and just responded to three people in one post and referenced a months old meme on a thread about a wannabe commie transtrender claiming that one of his headmates has died. I think I'm good.
 
Can your turntable play 78s?

If it can, start collecting 78 rpm records. It'll prevent you from turning into a hipster, but you'll most likely turn into a 78 rpm collector instead... which isn't a good thing, but it's better than being a hipster. (I say so from experience...)
 
Yeah it can. I have a few here: some pre-WWII top 40 thing and Walt Disney's Multiplication and Division starring Jiminy Cricket and Rica Moore.
 
Turntables are fun. You can still get good and weird music for a couple of bucks an album, but it takes some looking. The trend of all new records being 180 grams and $40 is bullshit. Also, temper your expectations, I personally don't think LP's sound incredibly better than CD's, they will always have a higher noise floor, etc. Many do sound great, though.

...I am an unintentional hipster(:_(

Technic tables are pretty good, i've almost never heard a complaint about them. Direct drive is nice since you don't have to worry about belts, and Idler drive turntable aren't even worth talking bout.. Keep in mind you will need something with a Phono stage, to do RIAA correction and amplify the signal to line level. Lots of options for that these days.

Steamboat_Bill said:
Can your turntable play 78s?

If it can, start collecting 78 rpm records. It'll prevent you from turning into a hipster, but you'll most likely turn into a 78 rpm collector instead... which isn't a good thing, but it's better than being a hipster. (I say so from experience...)
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Or just listen to "Blues before sunrise" on NPR and pretend you own the 78's.*

*edit: also, 78's usually have different needle and cartridge requirements. While the table may play them, they'll probably sound a little funny. They are also much more fragile than 33/45's.
 
Spudnik said:
I personally don't think LP's sound incredibly better than CD's, they will always have a higher noise floor, etc. Many do sound great, though.
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There's no question that the sound reproduction on a record is inherently distorted and less accurate than digital methods. The reasons why I like records are:
  1. Record players are cool
  2. Weird old shit
  3. It can be nice to listen to songs you know well on a record. It provides sort of the same affect as a remix IMHO.
  4. I have a horrible sense of interior design and buy these to help further my retarded attempts to make my apartment look good.
 
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Splendid Meat Sticks said:
There's no question that the sound reproduction on a record is inherently distorted and less accurate than digital methods. The reasons why I like records are:
  1. Record players are cool
  2. Weird old shit
  3. It can be nice to listen to songs you know well on a record. It provides sort of the same affect as a remix IMHO.
  4. I have a horrible sense of interior design and buy these to help further my exceptional attempts to make my apartment look good.
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That's exactly why I dig em, I just like old neat stuff. Used to play my parents records as a kid on a panasonic all-in-one.

Turntables are considerably more A-E-S-T-H-E-T-I-C
 
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polonium said:
When you say "scans the entire record" like are we talking it optically reads the music (possible, but implausible) or just looks for gaps and assumes those are the tracks or something?
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Not implausible just expensive http://elpj.com/

Also there is nothing wrong with having a turntable. Vinyl is pure and unsullied music. digital is the death of sound.
 
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LazarusOwenhart said:
Also there is nothing wrong with having a turntable. Vinyl is pure and unsullied music. digital is the death of sound.
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If you don't listen to your 300gram ultravinyl™ through a pair of Nathaniel Baldwin Model C's run by 70 year old Vacuum tubes made by a russian madman in Siberia you don't even know what music is.

Just joking around, I do think pure Analog is fantastic, but there is so much great digital as well.


I forgot to mention that you should just enjoy what you have. For your sanity, don't dig around the Steve Hoffman forums and try to find the "best master/pressing". It can be nice to know if a remaster or reissue is messed up, but they love to recommend the hardest to find and most expensive version, generally. Audio is so subjective it really brings out the loonies, especially ones who will drop $400 on a usb cable:c
 
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Spudnik said:
If you don't listen to your 300gram ultravinyl™ through a pair of Nathaniel Baldwin Model C's run by 70 year old Vacuum tubes made by a russian madman in Siberia you don't even know what music is.
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The Russian madman has to have schizophrenia. you just don't get the warmth and clean bass if it's bipolar.
 
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Spudnik said:
Or just listen to "Blues before sunrise" on NPR and pretend you own the 78's.*

*edit: also, 78's usually have different needle and cartridge requirements. While the table may play them, they'll probably sound a little funny. They are also much more fragile than 33/45's.
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Powerlevel... but I myself own a record player that plays 78s using the same needle I use for the LPs and 45s I have, and they play just fine.

They are indeed fragile, due to being made of shellac, but there are vinyl 78s out there; I own one myself.

(I really am halfway to becoming Seymour from Ghost World...)
 
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Steamboat_Bill said:
Powerlevel... but I myself own a record player that plays 78s using the same needle I use for the LPs and 45s I have, and they play just fine.

They are indeed fragile, due to being made of shellac, but there are vinyl 78s out there; I own one myself.
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Huh, I figured most 78's had bigger needles. Then again, i'm mostly ascertaining that through an old suitcase player, a Webcor with a ceramic cartridge that you had to flip over for 78's.

I had no idea there were vinyl 78's, though Thinking back, didn't Tom Waits put out a 78 a couple years back that must have been vinyl? maybe for Record Store day or something.

I just don't deal with 78's much, since I only have a handful and don't want to "invest" in them. That being said, I have a record from 1915 or so i'd love to copy to digital one day, just for kicks.

Most are pretty crappy, but I really don't want to mention how many players I have sitting around...let alone records:oops:
 
Spudnik said:
Huh, I figured most 78's had bigger needles. Then again, i'm mostly ascertaining that through an old suitcase player, a Webcor with a ceramic cartridge that you had to flip over for 78's.

I had no idea there were vinyl 78's, though Thinking back, didn't Tom Waits put out a 78 a couple years back that must have been vinyl? maybe for Record Store day or something.

I just don't deal with 78's much, since I only have a handful and don't want to "invest" in them. That being said, I have a record from 1915 or so i'd love to copy to digital one day, just for kicks.

Most are pretty crappy, but I really don't want to mention how many players I have sitting around...let alone records:oops:
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People occasionally put out 78s these days: http://www.78rpm.net.nz/78s/late78s/Late 78rpm records.pdf

Frankly, you don't want to get into 78 collecting. Everybody's been there before you, and everyone else has got the good stuff. Stick to reissues.
 
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