My father was in town recently and brought me his old Panasonic turntable and a bag of about 15 vintage albums. You wouldn't believe how heavy the 80's ( ?) turntable is. I've yet to set it up but think I'll get to that tomorrow. I'm looking forward to listening to the original old Beatles albums he was nice enough to pass down to me. Vinyl DOES live! Jenny <html></html>
List-Post: [email protected] Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:41:52 -0600 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [ot_caving] Vinyl As some of you know - I recently moved from perky pretty Republican-land Frisco Tx back to Austin. Nearly 200 lbs of that move consisted of flat, circular pieces of vinyl in between sheets of cardboard. So for over two weeks now, I've been unpacking - and one of those unpacked things were my old album collection. My new place has a perfect built-in cabinet/bookcase - as it would seem - perfect for a stereo and turntable. So I unwrapped my Denmark mfr Bang & Olfsen turntable from plastic and bubble wrap - hooked it all up and played some of those albums that had not been played since before I LEFT Austin over 6 years ago. I can hardly say how impressed I was! I'm sure that my auditory acuity has diminished some - but I had forgotten that vinyl really does NOT sound so very inferior to digital! On top of that - sitting in boxes for all these years has done nothing to diminish these records. It brings me back to the perennial conversation about how long storage media last. Some of these records are over 30 years old and still sound fine. [I had not heard B.O.C.s 'Tyranny and Mutation' in ages - I listened to the whole album from start to finish - WOW] So - from a caver who sounds like he lives in a cave. Vinyl still lives - -WaV _________________________________________________________________ Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008
