OK I admit I’ve posted this a couple of years ago but think it’s worth a second shot.
I had one of the first LP12s in the 70s and decided to extend the cable which involved cutting it. It didn’t work out so I requested a replacement. Here is a letter from the man himself.
That’s such a great letter.
Yes Brian, I agree with you regarding LPs, although I am so glad that I kept them all. However I do seem to have lost, loaned or miss placed quite a few!
The current price of LPs irate me, both old and new, though I am happier buying old copies. I suppose it’s the nostalgia and I reckon a better chance of quality. I feel somewhat cheated buying new vinyl that has poor SQ and warped. A few weeks ago I bought a 10 year anniversary of a Primus LP and I still haven’t listened to it all yet, disappointed to say the least. I listened to OK Not OK by Radiohead which sounds fine until I played my old very early and first pressings of John Otway LPs (made on a shoestring) which just blew Radiohead out of the water!
For good quality new vinyl I find you have to do your homework. I hope the same thing doesn’t happen to CD if they do make to comeback that is being talked about.
I do still like my CDs and they really rock on my CDX & XPS, whilst they go hand in hand along side my vinyl. Happy listening!
I might have that framed and put on the wall!
I have changed my profile picture as a result Eoink! Just one of the llamas wrapped around my neck….
. Superb!
Brilliant black British humour.
Stopping in a trendy lodge for a couple of days. Greeted by this beast! Sounds both terrible and wonderful at the same time. Its all nostalgia, my dad used to have this type of hifi😁
Groovy baby!
Hey - it’s analog!
Martin,
Blimey, I think that I saw John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett in Queen’s about 50 years ago! - but you’re right, the age of the recording is no indicator of quality.
It’s not for me to comment on modern vinyl recordings, but I do recall having the LP “On the Threshold of a Dream” by the Moody Blues on Decca Deram and the actual disc was extremely heavy, very rigid and sounded great, whereas many others were flimsy by comparison.
On the subject of “On the Threshold …”, it was quite the historical artefact, with a gatefold sleeve containing photographs and design which perfectly “captured” 1969. CDs really don’t allow that scale, or indeed, that aspect of expression.
Another negative aspect of the presentation of CDs is that, particularly with re-issues from old LPs, I have had to resort to a magnifying glass to read the sleeve notes! Brian D.
You are right Brian. By pure chance I dug out my original copy of “on the threshold” yesterday and it is on heavier than average vinyl
The gatefold sleeve has bound in a full size booklet with the lyrics printed in flowing script and liner notes. Great music and excellent presentation.
That brings back wonderful memories of when I was a teenager in the 1970’s. There was a hi-fi shop quite near to where we lived and there were always these type of music centres in the window which I used to drool over. As well as reel to reel tape decks, Technics and Sony amps and record decks. Happy days! I sometimes think I about all the money I could have saved if I’d just been like any ‘normal’ person and bought myself a lovely Sony music centre. But then you listen to them and you understand why you didn’t buy one!
Yes indeed Queens Student Union, Otway came back and played there again without Barrett. I was there too and by far the best live gigs I have been too!
My first hifi in 1979 was a toshiba music centre very similar to this. The tape deck soon gave up the ghost and it was then replaced with a NAD3020, Dual 505 and KEF Coda 2s - the very slippery slope thus began!!
and sometimes it is too blurred to read even with a magnifying glass - just becomes part of the graphic design…
I went without school meals for a year. Saved the money, to be able to buy the above.
It gave me a couple of years of blissful fun, till I actually heard some hifi.
Looking back, do not know what was worse the school meals or the music centre.
Brings back memories of Spam fritters😬
Good for protecting your email also