Yeah, Crowleys are cheap junk, but if you replace the needle regularly, you can't do too much damage, really. The tracking force is a bear, but most people don't know how to properly weight their tonearms in general (I sure as shit don't), so unless you're an obsessive, your tracking force is gonna be a little over the top anyway. It's an issue, but unless you're spending hundreds on something like rare psych or jazz, don't get too worked up about it.
How well does it play when you're walking around with it balanced on your shoulders?
25 years ago I was shooting pool with a professor. One of the things he showed me was vacuum tube set up he had imported from Germany. At the time his setup set him back over 20 grand. My setup comparatively speaking costed me close to 8 grand. Partial Analog vs Full Analog sound. Playing Pink Floyd's Album Dark Side of the Moon... It was just WoW...
Someone should fix that by writing a plug-in that adds scanlines to digitized music.
What do you mean by "warmth"? Is it something that's actually measurable, or just pretending you hear something different?
What? CDs have always been uncompressed.
It's distortion caused by the tube amp because tubes are crap.
We may be seemingly light years away from something as daft as that, though someone once made a 128GB floppy disk hack.
Vintage valve radios too. There's still a massive demand for that shit, along with the fact that people just love to upcycle old tech so it can communicate with Bluetooth devices. Anyway, yeah. Digital has its advantages and all, but you just can't beat the feel of real analog warmth.
New mechanics along with other small additions. It's always some changes that forces you to switch up your game when playing with friends, the one that can't adapt loses. It's fun, it's like a new rule set. I haven't played it in a while now but I've played the EA's NHL games since NHLPA on the Mega Drive and there's been twists and turns that makes me either stronger or weaker because I either adapt faster or slower to the changes. It's fun, it's like a fighting game that comes out every year.
Nowadays, it's the same game as last year with little if any changes. See FIFA Legacy Edition on the Switch. The exact same game repackaged as "new."
Yeah but the Switch is a last gen console, you had FIFA up until maybe 2010 or possibly later on the PS2 with roster changes/stats running on the old abandoned engine/game. Switch probably gets PS3/360 versions with minor changes.
" option that nobody asked for and is completely worthless to everybody except, I assume, Google's data mining operations.
