Hifi

[rowan]

Not much into vinyl and record players but I'm loving the light-soaked discs in this thread.

If the nostalgia, background noise & cover artwork don't do it for you, maybe alternative uses could tempt?

[skab]

I do like a vertical record deck

I do like this vertical milling machine:



It's just as noisy as vinyl

*ducks*

[NorthWay]

There is one type of vinyl LP player I would consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable
The original concept of deliberately degrading your media just never clicked with me.

[rowan]

The laser pickup always sounded good in principle at high level but I've never used one.

However, my trusted text on professional sound + recording had a chapter all about turntables and at the end they cover laser pickups. They say that the system needs feeding with discs which are almost surgically clean, since there is no longer a physical head to push dirt out of the way, otherwise signal dropout occurs.
The book quotes "costing not much under £10000 the player obviously has a limited appeal, the professional user being the main potential customer" which sounds as if it's the same model in the wikipedia article, based on price.

So in fact, not nearly as good as initially it sounds. You do get pause, track skip and the like though - and obviously no wear.

[(o)(o)]

I'm currently running the Pro-Ject to an Azure 851D DAC via Bluetooth.

Oh no, you're spoiling the analogue goodness by using this devilish digital stuff

with skab on this as you are going turntable>ADC>DAC>speakers - no way you could connect direct to amp and bypass the DAC?

Bluetooth is the shittiest SBC codec too! Still sounds pretty damn fine! Honestly! Really enjoying this deck. Vinyl has a lovely stimulating euphonic distortion. There's absolutely nothing wrong with vinyl as a preference in sonic terms, but the digital conversion and bluetooth is having a much smaller impact on the sonic fidelity. I'll buy an analogue preamp at some point, but for now It's an amazing convenience to have the deck wireless and positioned in the far corner of the room. I'm using an Ikea bedside cabinet I picked up from freecycle as a stand and it works really well! Check out this georgous orange Atonalist vinyl my friend gave me for my birthday!

That looks as if it may be direct drive? Or at least concealed belt.

The belt is easily visible through the acrylic platter. There are some Pro-Ject decks with problems relating to the belt I've heard of, wasn't the 1Xpression series.

You do get pause, track skip and the like though...

Had all that on my Beogram 8000 (had the whole system) 1981. Amazing technology! Linear tracking direct drive with an optical lens which could hunt for track breaks and would work out the correct speed.

[skab]

with an optical lens which could hunt for track breaks and would work out the correct speed.

Today they would probably make a snapshot of the label and send it to a cloud server where some AI checks the label for the desired speed setting. And you'd miraculously get a lot of matching recommendations from Amazon afterwards...

[(o)(o)]

with an optical lens which could hunt for track breaks and would work out the correct speed.

Today they would probably make a snapshot of the label and send it to a cloud server where some AI checks the label for the desired speed setting. And you'd miraculously get a lot of matching recommendations from Amazon afterwards...

Too true, and if you don't register and upgrade the firmware online it gets bricked 3 months after warranty expires..

Hissss.....

[(o)(o)]

Ruby red vinyl... sure 40th anniversary colours.. but massively missed opportunity of using white vinyl.

[VNVObit]

Ruby red vinyl... sure 40th anniversary colours.. but massively missed opportunity of using white vinyl.

White vinyl never looks that impressive (have a few)
Was tempted by it but already have the album 3 time (vinyl, cd, cd X2 reissue)

so far my favourite is this



bit hypnotic when being played

[(o)(o)]

White vinyl never looks that impressive (have a few)
Was tempted by it but already have the album 3 time (vinyl, cd, cd X2 reissue)

so far my favourite is this



bit hypnotic when being played

My god that looks amazing!

May have to buy if affordable (I see Ltd to 300!)

Even without rotation, this video is doing a job on my brain

[VNVObit]

The album is available here

You could check whether or not it is black or striped vinyl (stumbled across it)

[matt303]

For around the last 3 years I've been running a Cambridge Audio CXN v2 streamer but I recently got the itch to try an external DAC on and managed to pick up a used Chord 2Qute at a very good price off a forum. Wow, I'd tried a couple of old DACs I'd got around the place with little change from the sound of the CXN v2 but this really good, especially at pulling detail out of tracks, even TGG prefers it to using the analogue out of the CXN.