A folded up towel, placed directly under the turntable, always worked for me. There’s probably prettier solutions that just mimic the same idea. People dance next to turntables on shitty floors all the time.
But there is!
Look for turntable isolators.
Or just crank up the tracking force!*
*note: do not do this!
Because there isn’t any other way to buy high-quality music any more?
Just about any lossy song you purchase on iTunes, Amazon, etc is going to be virtually indistinguishable from the same song ripped losslessly from a purchased CD. Unless you’re one of the one in like 200 who has mutant ears, a 256K AAC song is high quality.
Nitpick:
Spotify does not have lossless. They announced that they were going to have it, but then Apple and Amazon beat them to the punch.
Wow! I canceled my Spotify account a while back and just figured that the announced lossless tracks must surely be available by now.
Ah, I hadn’t realized that it was still possible to purchase music on those apps-- I had thought that they had all moved to a cloud model.
I still buy my music on iTunes. Just did a couple of days ago. I understand it, and it works for me. I don’t really understand how streaming works for music.
FWIW, according to the RIAA revenue from download purchases are trending lower ever year, down 20% in the last year. Downloads made up 3% of all US music revenue in 2022 which is down from the peak in 2012 of 43%.
I’m one of those. I have, I believe, three vinyl records. I bought them from five to fifteen years ago. (A Liz Phair “Exile on Guyville” reissue, a Sleater-Kinney “Call The Doctor” and I somehow don’t remember what the third is.) I’ve never owned a record player ever.
I owned my first before I was five.
Some of us are very poor at prediction: many, many years ago I thought vinyl was a dead technology and would soon be extinct.
Anything old enough is potentially retro-cool. Clothing fashions, whatever.
In other news, buggy whips outsold model Ts last year.
And that’ll only cost you a dime!
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By the way, I now have a turntable! My AR turntable would’ve needed twice its worth to fix, so I gave up, bought a cheap one (a $250 all-manual music hall).
And to celebrate, I went out and looked for an album that I’d always have to listen to in order. Decided on Abbey Road.
Vinyl outselling CDs is really about the almost complete collapse of CDs as a medium for new music… They just don’t really fit any musical niches any more. Vinyl still does for a few.
A huge amount of that vinyl is never played. It’s collected.
Yep. My kids have a number of vinyls. I have like … three or four. None have ever been played.
Hey, I’ve been saying email is a dead technology and they need to stop grafting other technologies onto it as a stop gap since at least 1998, Guess what the primary focus of my job is in 2024.
True, but even if I do most of my playing from the download cards, all of mine gets played at least once. Listened to some this evening, in fact