With you here Ray. I spin Vinyl on two systems not tubed but Solid State Marantz and Sansui. The Aural quality can't be beat IMO.
I can live with or without friction. Personally I like index but on occasion have shifted friction only, it works. Jim S the book looks interesting thanks for posting, always on the lookout for a good read. ~h On Thursday, March 30, 2017 at 9:39:29 AM UTC-7, Ray Varella wrote: > Patrick et al, > One thing that vinyl used to add, and I can't say if it does > today, is the element of listening to an entire side or both sides of an > album. > Add some friends to the mix and you pass around the album cover, read the > liner notes and anything else the band or producers had to say about the > making of the recording. > It involved a level of social interaction that doesn't exist while wearing > earbuds. > It required an attention span that involved listening to more than one cut. > Music today is very convenient but most people don't listen to more than one > song by a given artist. > > I confess to still owning and listening to vinyl, on vintage tube gear no > less. The sound quality drwarfs anything available on a compressed format but > it really loses in the convenient column. > > Ray > Vallejo CA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
