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Clarence · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 8:41 pm Post subject:

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

the next step is a support group
" Hi, my name is Clarence I can't stop buying old records" Laughing

I need ot get down this weekend and spin some records, it's been a few weeks which is too long.

Need to dig up some new stuff out of my collection, have a pile of a dozen that are "new to me" that need a quick wash and spin.

Clarence · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 9:41 pm Post subject:

Clarence · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 9:47 pm Post subject:

Wish list:
more Drivin' n Cryin (Mystery Road, Fly Me Courageous, Kevn Kinney)
Hoodoo Gurus
BB King
SRV
more Pink Floyd and Zeppelin
more U2
VH FW, W&C1st
Old 97's
Violent Femmes
The Cure
the new Alabama Shakes
weezer

and my wife wants Ed Sheeran's albums

gregstv · Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 628 Location: Australia

Picked up a copy of Eric Clapton and friends. Great album. Also some pictures of my setup. I built the speaker boxes. The drivers are B&W and I built the crossover based around B&W802 crossover. The record player is a JBE and has a Helius tone arm and has an Ortofon mc20 cart attached to an ortofon mca76 pre-amp.

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

gregstv · Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 628 Location: Australia

I would love a pair of 802s. Very expensive here in Australia. The base and mid speakers I picked up from a speaker repair company. They had new foam fitted and the original owner never picked them up. I think they are from 603s. The top end drivers are later model B&Ws. I built crossovers based on the 802 crossovers. The boxes are 25mm craft wood. They sound amazing.
Very happy with the turn table. Everybody comments on how it looks and cant believe how old it.

Greg.

AaronB · Joined: 05 Sep 2007 Posts: 22 Location: Ottawa, Canada

If you are having a hard time finding vintage vinyl or turntables or parts for them, then blame the hipsters for buying it all up and driving up the prices. Damn hipsters.
Wink

Clarence · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 8:59 pm Post subject:

I was getting some odd distortion from my system... swapped out the TT and tried 2 cartridges, swapped cables, bypassed the eq. Swapped back to the original tubes on the amp.

Finally traced it to the cheap phono pre-amp...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000H2BC4E/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000H2BC4E&linkCode=as2&tag=curtpalmecrtp-20&linkId=Z2VAZ4YTJFQDKT5R

So I used that as an excuse to upgrade to the Little Bear:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TBA8818/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00TBA8818&linkCode=as2&tag=curtpalmecrtp-20&linkId=GOBHALPVJY4BFZVT
Good reviews every where, especially on the improvements from v2.2 to v2.5. I'll report back when it arrives on the fast boat from China.

Found another great record store last week. Got a bunch of stuff, including a VG copy of Boy by U2. But wasted 25c on a box set of Chicago live at Carnegie Hall in 1971... split box, but all the inserts are there and the vinyl looks mint. I'm not a Chicago fan... evidently neither was the previous owner. I still don't think the LPs have been played more than once. Steely Dan Aja and Dire Straits Making Movies were excellent though. Also got The Police - Ghost in the Machine and another Del Fuegos that I've been wanting.

I got Violent Femmes and Ramones from dragan's B&N record day link.

And yesterday at the local thrift store I found 7 more Buffett albums that I didn't have for $1. Thumbs Up

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

new re-issue on vinyl of Ferguslie Park by Gerry Rafferty. Who the hell is Gerry Rafferty, you-tube the song "Baker street "and you'll know right away. I would love to hear that sax on my vinyl system.

http://www.analogplanet.com/content/ferguslie-park-%C2%A0reissued-new-label-intervention-records#yDpRJRVuGv97oCHu.97et

MrBlonde83 · Joined: 16 Mar 2009 Posts: 132 Location: Lansford, PA

Picked this one up for $25 on Craigslist... I read online that its a nice one. Its quite heavy....

Clarence · Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 12:58 am Post subject: Re: My Kenwood Vinyl player :)

garyfritz · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 12088 Location: Fort Collins, CO

I used to have a very similar Kenwood, but the plinth was resin-concrete. KD-550 I think? Black Widow arm and a Shure v15 mk4 cartridge. And I can't believe I remember all that -- I bought it probably 35 yrs ago, sold it 15-20 yrs ago...

Clarence · Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 7:55 pm Post subject:

This week's finds from the $1 vinyl bargain bin...

Clarence · Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 8:44 pm Post subject:

My albums are in alphabetical order. The OCD in me wonders about these:

Aldo Nova... A or N?
My initial instinct was "A". But since "Aldo" is his first name (Aldo Nova (born Aldo Caporuscio on November 13, 1956 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist, songwriter, and producer. Nova initially gained fame with his self-titled debut album Aldo Nova in 1982 which climbed to Billboard's number 8 position, and its accompanying single, "Fantasy," ), I'm now thinking file under "N". Or really go crazy and file it under "C".

John Cougar Mellencamp. File under C next to the original albums by John Cougar? File under M? Separate them?

Molly Hatchet. This is an easy one, file under M, not H. Kinda like Pink Floyd. Filed under P, duh.

But what about Alice Cooper? A or C? Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American singer, considered by fans and peers alike to be "The Godfather of Shock Rock". Filed under C.

Or Cat Stevens [(currently Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou, 21 July 1948)]. Filed under S.

So if a stage name refers to an individual, alphabetize it as a surname. But if the stage name belongs to the whole group, file under the first initial.

J Geils Band? Under G for John Geils, like DMB filed under M?

.38 Special. Filed under 3 or T?
10,000 Maniacs? 1 or T?
3 Doors Down? 3 or T?

MrBlonde83 · Joined: 16 Mar 2009 Posts: 132 Location: Lansford, PA

Yeah, I think it is a KD-550. Nice solid turntable... I'm on a budget so its probably as nice as i'll get, but I think it sounds nice with the Shure stylus I have on it. I think it was around $60.

One question, I tried to use it with my Onkyo TX-NR818 THX receiver on it's Phono input, the volume is so low, it sounds better with my ART DJ phono preamp... what am I doing wrong?

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

MrBlonde83 · Joined: 16 Mar 2009 Posts: 132 Location: Lansford, PA

I figured.... how hard is it to plug a phono into the AVR... So yeah, its on the Game1 input, AVR has the renamable input names which is nice. I had an amp/speaker selector so I could switch between my AVR and a Kenwood 3500 integrated amp for vinyl, but one channel of it's phono input went bad.

garyfritz · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 12088 Location: Fort Collins, CO