i still have my turntable in storage, because i have about 10 LPs i didn't digitize yet. i wonder if that procrastination was an excuse to simply keep it.
ah the old days. mixing friends a tape would take over the hours, from pristinely played LP to compact cassette. it meant something. but listening to LPs was so unwieldly i had tons of mixed tapes. a lot of my listening sessions were cassette recording sessions. but i am in no way missing the ritual. even playing CDs was intrusive. my CDs and my remaining LPs live the exact same fate - they are in storage. for my favorite albums i scanned and PDFd the artwork and booklet, and will sometimes check it out and read as i listen. i have started to buy CDs again, because you can buy many dead cheap used and flac them. then they're put away into a big box i drop off at Rasputin with regularity. my favorite CDs remain in relatively inaccessible storage. maybe i'll digitize the rest of them. but i have become lazy :-) some of them stgarted to appear as torrents, and i see nothing illegal about downloading them because i own the media, after all. :-) the analog ritual - no way, i don't miss any of it. there is absolutely no doubt in my mind CDs always sounded better, even in their worst early days. my turntable was (is) a Technics 1210 with a better arm and needle. i fondly remember my premium Denon 1290 CD player, because it was really good, connected to a used Luxman amp and modded German speakers. that was my main rig for 10 very satisfying years that saw my CD collection grow into the 1000s. ...pablo Server: Virtual Machine running Ubuntu 12.04 + LMS 7.7.3 on VMware Player System: SB Touch --optical->- Benchmark DAC2HGC --AnalysisPlus Oval Copper XLR->- NAD M22 Power Amp --AnalysisPlus Black Mesh Oval->- Totem Element Fire Other Rooms: 2x SB Boom; 1x SB Radio; 1x SB Classic-> MusicalFidelity M1PWR -> Totem DreamCatcher Computer audio: workstation --USB->- audioengine D1 -> Grado PS500e ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103078 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
