8 Track Cartridge ?
There’s a great Adam Savage vid on his YouTube channel about old music formats. I never realised how many tape formats there were. 
In the 90s, I had a VCR with audio only recording capability and connections for a tape loop. It recorded digitally to NICAM. Whilst not a great digital format, it avoided all the problems with analogue tape and was cheaper than a good tape deck. Back then, before many people had computers and certainly before those that did had CDROM drives, you borrowed a CD off a mate and dubbed it to tape. I borrowed my mates CDs and dubbed them to VHS. Not a format many would have intentionally used for audio.
But it was good enough for the BBC to use for audio relays to transmitters so I figured it was good enough for bootlegging. And it was.
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Hello, if you are still interested in listening to a TT (Its a Thorens 2001 with an unserviced Naim Prefix on my NAC52 - I am at the moment living between Tours and Saumur - if this would happen to be close to your place - you could come over. In the house are some Jazz/Pop records and I brought some classic music too.
I started with a P3+RB330 as well. I was very happy with its performance and ease of setup. As newbie to records it gave me lot of confidence in cueing
After 2-3 months I found it may sound too clinical and lean for my taste. It had done its duty to help me realise what I want from a records system. Great S/H market it got anyway.
A P3 helps you realise what you want from records system. If you want a different sound from your digital system you may need vintage turntable.
Thank you for your proposal but I live next to Toulouse, it’s a bit far…
ADHF in Toulouse is a great place. Have you been there ?
I live not far away, I did the opening of the store with Mr Andrieu at the time more than 20 years ago…
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I received the P3 and the Fono mk5 yesterday… I am pleasantly surprised, I did not expect such good sound! No background noise, very little crackling… all I have to do now is find some good vinyls…
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Great choice, that’s all the turntable you will ever need. A classic jazz album to get you started as well, enjoy.
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Great choice. Enjoy!
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Excellent, but the traditionalist in me suggests some nice vinyl please, not vinyls!!!
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If you want to be traditionalist they are records or LPs not vinyl.
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Hehe
He lives in France. Here we say « vinyls « for lps. 
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In the present or in the past (eg 1970s) ?
I worked with a french guy several years ago and he as I recall referred to them as l’album.
I was speaking of course from my own experience. I cannot recall ever referring to LPs as vinyl. It seems to be a more modern reference coined sometime after CDs were mainstream.
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So a modern phrase.
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Le Franglais frappe une fois de plus.
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