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I've just decided that whether or not discogs sellers have correctly graded their merchandise depends on nothing more than luck. That copy of Black Mass I bought is on the lower end of VG and the loving guy play graded it and still called it a VG+ with the except of one issue he informed me of. I was okay with that because he made it sound like the entire album wasn't a bowl of Rice Krispies.
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pwn posted:I never heard of sparks before the last page. Incredibly unhip and out of touch. me neither and yet i was almost compelled to go on discogs and check prices
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Mar 25, 2021 00:59
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what are the best speakers I can buy for less than one thousand dollars?
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Mar 25, 2021 03:08
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IG-88 posted:what are the best speakers I can buy for less than one thousand dollars? If you're not buying those custom made wooden horns from the last page why even bother?
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Mar 25, 2021 04:55
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IG-88 posted:what are the best speakers I can buy for less than one thousand dollars? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CApq8h336S0 This video seems like a good starting point. Guttenberg is generally regarded as someone that knows what he's talking about and isn't terrible to watch. Check "more info" for an index breakdown of the recommendations.
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Mar 25, 2021 08:39
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Personally, for $1000 I'd be trolling the avsforum classifieds to find a deal on some used $5k speakers.
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Mar 25, 2021 13:47
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pwn posted:I never heard of sparks before the last page. Incredibly unhip and out of touch. Me neither. I don't think they ever charted anything in the US and they definitely seem like "your favorite band's favorite band's influences" so it's understandable how they passed us by
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Mar 25, 2021 15:25
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Its amazing how much good music came out in the mid 70s compared to just how bad the us charts were in the mid 70s
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Mar 25, 2021 18:53
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tinaun posted:Its amazing how much good music came out in the mid 70s compared to just how bad the us charts were in the mid 70s
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Mar 25, 2021 19:15
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BigFactory posted:“No means yes” is a song title that’s aged well  I have the shirt with that drawing on the front and NO MEANS NO on the back, wore it at an alternative club once and some dude earnestly commended me on my making a valuable statement on sexual autonomy, and I smiled and nodded and kept thinking he simply must know there's a band and spent the rest of the night trying to always face away from him
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Mar 25, 2021 19:26
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I kind of want to grab a Spin Clean system on Amazon but the regular $79 version is out of stock until June. And I am not sure I want to spend $125 on the one with extra towels or whatever. (It’s in stock) Any other recommendations for this? I don’t have hundreds of records to clean or anything.
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Mar 25, 2021 20:14
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I just realigned my cartridge and it is so much better! It’s crazy how out of whack it was. It sounds like I have a whole new system.
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Mar 25, 2021 23:37
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BigFactory posted:I just realigned my cartridge and it is so much better! It’s crazy how out of whack it was. It sounds like I have a whole new system. Did you actually buy a protractor or just print out a template?
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Chinook posted:I kind of want to grab a Spin Clean system on Amazon but the regular $79 version is out of stock until June. And I am not sure I want to spend $125 on the one with extra towels or whatever. (It’s in stock) One weird trick amazon doesn't want you to know... you can buy things from other websites. For example. https://spinclean.com/store/ sells them. Looks like it is free shipping for it as well. I still can't believe a few plastic pieces are $80. There is this similar looking thing but I can't speak to it's quality. https://www.amazon.com/Knox-Vinyl-Record-Cleaner-Spin/dp/B07MP88FX6
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Mar 26, 2021 04:06
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sporklift posted:One weird trick amazon doesn't want you to know... you can buy things from other websites. For example. https://spinclean.com/store/ sells them. Looks like it is free shipping for it as well. I still can't believe a few plastic pieces are $80. There is this similar looking thing but I can't speak to it's quality. Unsurprisingly Spin Cleans use to be cheaper. I think mine was 50 bucks when I bought it. And I remembered thinking it was overpriced back then.
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CPL593H posted:Unsurprisingly Spin Cleans use to be cheaper. I think mine was 50 bucks when I bought it. And I remembered thinking it was overpriced back then. Yeah I think I bought mine on sale for around $50. I got the 40th anniversary retro edition to add that extra brown tone to all my records.
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sporklift posted:Yeah I think I bought mine on sale for around $50. I got the 40th anniversary retro edition to add that extra brown tone to all my records. I got rid of all my brown tone records because I was tired of making GBS threads my pants when I wanted to listen to some music.
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Boinks posted:Did you actually buy a protractor or just print out a template? Just a printed one I’ve been using forever but i was noticeably out of alignment. Looking back, I put that cartridge on a year ago and didn’t check it I guess.
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My amplifier of 19 years died over the weekend and I got a new one yesterday and I have to say that it is very important to properly ground your turntable. My deck is silent now and records no longer stick like glue to the slipmat due to static.
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Dead Goon posted:My amplifier of 19 years died over the weekend and I got a new one yesterday and I have to say that it is very important to properly ground your turntable. My deck is silent now and records no longer stick like glue to the slipmat due to static. Heheh yeah, connect those wires
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sporklift posted:Yeah I think I bought mine on sale for around $50. I got the 40th anniversary retro edition to add that extra brown tone to all my records. 
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My Lovely Horse posted:hold on, I got you A few old guys at a dive bar once thought my Iron Reagan shirt was sincere
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Spanish Manlove posted:A few old guys at a dive bar once thought my Iron Reagan shirt was sincere I've gotten that too. Yeah man Reagan and a pile of skulls means Reagan good!
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sporklift posted:brown tone Mickey Melchiondo posted:I can’t really explain ‘brown’ except to give examples… Ween opened for The Ramones in 1991. The Ramones showed up in a Country Squire station wagon that was smashed on one side, and missing a window. Dee Dee, Joey, and Marky. That’s brown. The beautiful side of brown. That is brown – that’s real. That’s brown. It can be really bad, it can be a horrible thing, when you get browned out by some band. A band shows up and they’re brown – none of their equipment works or whatever. But it’s a strength. You know you’re getting the real thing. In other news I put a new all vinyl mix up over at https://www.mixcloud.com/mawesome/03252021/. I dunno if it's brown but it is kinda weird, kinda funky, and kinda funny. Here is the tracklist. quote:1. Destruments - Freedom
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no surprises here https://twitter.com/kevinduquette/status/1373034033030918148?s=19 2021 gonna be the year i finally get a cassette player. the sanyo the op of the cassette thread got looks nice...
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abraham linksys posted:no surprises here And I'm sure 90% of that is going to be I've been thinking about it a lot lately and maybe I should just start buying CDs again.
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abraham linksys posted:2021 gonna be the year i finally get a cassette player. the sanyo the op of the cassette thread got looks nice... I say this as someone with a cassette deck and a gaggle of tapes, although those are mostly recordings of my college radio show and lovely local bands that never made more than a cassette. Edit: To clarify this phone post, my old man yelling at a cloud here is that other than being a physical medium and retro, cassettes don't have much to offer. They are too small to have good album art like an LP, they are generally less physically robust than a CD, their sound quality is not good (not sure if it's better/worse than a good MP3, but it's not great), and they don't have a lot of support in the marketplace. They're "different" for sure, but they also got dropped like a rock for good reason by everyone once the ability to burn CDs became commonplace. stealie72 fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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stealie72 posted:I realize the insanity of asking this in the vinyl thread, but why? Cassettes were never not garbage that filled the gap between vinyl and CDs, with the only real benefit that you could record on one at home. It kinda lays bare the absurdity of all retro media enthusiasms, doesn't it. And having said that, I just went thrifting and bought a JVC tape deck. But only for ripping some of the more insane fundie preachers, who have provided me some of the best cheap laughs this side of eternity. 
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lol VMP, thanks for the warning 
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I had albums on cassette that I thought sounded like poo poo the first time I listened to them on CD. Tapes had a nice warmth sometimes. And they’re super convenient.
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I will give tapes this - the kachunk of popping them in a player is pretty satisfying.
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 From my aunt's basement. Many of these were my mother's. This is pretty cool.
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BigFactory posted:I had albums on cassette that I thought sounded like poo poo the first time I listened to them on CD. Tapes had a nice warmth sometimes. And they’re super convenient. One time I had a scientist for a roommate that would smuggle weed home from Amsterdam after his scientist conventions. He made a batch of pot oil in our house kitchen and I'm such a heel that I just had to sneak and grab a spoonful as it simmered. I fell out of alpha consciousness, lost the ability to speak, and had to lay in bed listening to the same cassette over and over all night while I missed a great party because I couldn't walk so good. That's my cassette story. Here's another one. I worked as a court reporter for 15 years and when I started in 2004 my CHUD fraud of a boss was suspicious of digital recording, and insisted I make a tape recording and a tape backup even though I was recording digitally. So I had to carry all these lovely Marantz court reporter tape decks around everywhere so I could drive up to the office once a week and drop off my cassettes for their archives. Then I'd go home and transcribe from the MP3s. I asked his office manager if I could just mail her CDs of the mp3s and she said "don't you need an mp3 player for those?" So no love lost on cassettes over here. petit choux fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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CPL593H posted:I've been thinking about it a lot lately and maybe I should just start buying CDs again. Why not they're cheap! Unless you import it from Japan then it's $40 please lol. And there are a few things only on CD and not yet on vinyl, though it's primarily obscure stuff. Chinook posted:
Tag ur self, I'm the Minnie Mouse sticker on Tommy. All joking aside that is a sweet haul!
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Chinook posted:
h*ck yea  Turbinosamente posted:Why not they're cheap! Unless you import it from Japan then it's $40 please lol. And there are a few things only on CD and not yet on vinyl, though it's primarily obscure stuff. Been enjoying CDs a lot the last couple years. I never stopped buying them but having cars with CD decks has increased my ability to easily listen. I mean yeah my Blu-ray and DVD players play them too but it’s just more fun in a car pwn fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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Turbinosamente posted:Why not they're cheap! Unless you import it from Japan then it's $40 please lol. And there are a few things only on CD and not yet on vinyl, though it's primarily obscure stuff. Because I'm an autistic weirdo who won't stop yelling about loudness war. Why the hell else would I have thrown so many years and so much money into this hole? With the exception of a few comedy albums I probably haven't bought a CD in about ten years. But now it's getting to the point where none of this feels worth it anymore and all the fun is dead.
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lament.cfg posted:lol VMP, thanks for the warning “Don’t play out expensive rear end records on your lovely Crosley” is a marketing strategy I can get behind.
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When I A/B a really well mastered CD and LP I always prefer the CD. Willie Nelson - Teatro is one of my go-tos when I’m playing around with a system cause you have a lot of dynamics on the first track (and it sounds great), and I’ll go back and forth between CD and vinyl a little. CD wins.
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Hah yeah I also lived through the original cassette era and have zero desire to return to that. To be fair, mix tapes were always better than mix CDs, but aside from that I can't imagine the appeal. Shine on you crazy diamonds!
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I remember years ago one of the thread misanthropes that has thankfully disappeared was extolling the virtues of cassettes related to how easy they are to make and distribute. Which makes sense and is cool if you're balls deep in the local scene or only interested in Bands That Have Never Even Heard of Themselves and that's your only option, but that's basically where the benefit stops.CPL593H posted:Because I'm an autistic weirdo who won't stop yelling about loudness war. Why the hell else would I have thrown so many years and so much money into this hole? With the exception of a few comedy albums I probably haven't bought a CD in about ten years. But now it's getting to the point where none of this feels worth it anymore and all the fun is dead. You're kinda doing it to yourself. I know I've lightly chastised you about this before, but maybe stop being so fixated on prices and "who would buy this" and general negativity and just enjoy this dumb hobby as much as you can. Yes, records are getting expensive and absurd but just ignore it and you'll be much happier.
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