Issues with records (good or bad, lol):

1. No shuffle play!
2. Can't set a playlist and walk away, you have to change the record.
3. No rewind to beginning of track.
4. Some old records skip
5. Not the medium for dusty or sunny environments
6. Not supporting terrible oligarchs and Joe Rogan with your streaming choices
7. No mid-record commercials interrupting your track ala YouTube
8. There is one order and one order only on listening, which is what is pressed into the vinyl
9. Medium and player is NOT SMALL
10. Can't play records in a moving vehicle
11. Need to think about what the next record you want to play is, otherwise you have a large gap in your music environment
12. Can't (easily) press your own records
13. No one tracking all your plays and clicks and ad preferences for future ingestion by the all knowing AI slop machine
14. No AI slop music
15. Very hard to give your friends a copy of a song.
16. Jogging with a record player in your pocket doesn't work.
17. Best way to stay on the cutting edge of the 1960's and 1970's emerging sound scene and "new" artists you have never heard of.
18. Fidelity is... interesting. It's like running all your digital tracks through a unique filter where the music is first pressed onto an obsolete medium, then read back through a vibrating needle on a rotating drum, which is subject to vibration by the music itself and occasional external influences, and then pushed through a speaker. THE VINYL FILTER
19. How the heck are the billionaires supposed to make money from people using old stuff? BUY NEW STUFF! BUY! BUY! BUY! BUY! ITS YOUR PATRIOTIC DUTY TO CONSUME! /s
20. Finding records is somewhat difficult. Not a lot of sources. In this area, vast amounts of the types of records floating around most are terrible white suburban Time Life record compilations and religious music.
21. Prices for Vinyl in the LA area are very inflated, esp. in LA itself (trendy hipsters driving up the price, I think).
22. How is Jeff Bezos Supposed To Make Money If You Aren't Subscribed To Amazon Music? Huh?!
23. Who is this Englebert Humperdink guy, anyway, and why does everyone have his album? 🤪

(Anyway, enjoying this very much, lol)

#records #LPs

@ai6yr I dipped my toes into vinyl about three years ago, now I’m all in with vintage vacuum tube amplification, TT and speakers.

It’s all old gear (the Dynaco amps are older than me) and it’s all needed work to get into shape.

It’s been a fun rabbit hole to jump into, and I really don’t have all that much invested.

The sound quality is astonishing!

Along this journey I’ve started listening to 1955-1970 instrumental jazz, mostly on the Blue Note label.

This is all new music to me. The textures and atmospheres of the recordings really touch something deep inside for me.

#VintageHifi #hifi #vinyl

@lin11c @ai6yr From what I have seen, Dynaco were mostly kits, though you could get them fully built also.

Mine were built/owned by a guy who owned a local recording studio for decades.

The PAS preamp still has its original Dynaco-branded Telefunken 12AX7 tubes, which may contribute to its amazing sound.