I just checked what I had- apart from ABBA, Black Sabbath and Engelbert Humperdink I have a few by Bill Haley and one by Paul Robeson called “Negro Spirituals”. I somehow don’t think it would have the same title today.
However, a two part collection are records of Paul Robeson. They are not full size LP’s, but they are 33 1/3 speed. They have never been played and are still in original packaging. I would not be game to play them now.
I’d still like to know where I got the single of “Neapolitan Love Songs”.
Prepare to be astonished at what people used to put up with for the sake of music. Pops, hisses, and the irritation of having to get up to change the music every 20 minutes or so.
Hey now, when it comes down to it, nothing competes with the sound that comes out of a good analog setup. That being said, such setups tend to not exactly be cheap, but hey.
Changing the disc every 20-ish minutes can get a little annoying if you’re just in the mood to veg out with some music, though :).
To the OP : get yourself a record cleaner of some sort if you don’t already, it helps a lot. I have a Nitty Gritty vacuum powered machine, but you can do it the “hard” way without having to plunk down the cash for such a contraption, just get some decent fluid. I like the Disc Doctor stuff myself, but there are several out there. Keep the stylus clean too… there are all manner of wacky, esoteric stylus cleaning “kits” and other such things out there, but the best way to do it (IMHO, and that of many others) is with a little cube of $1.50 Mr. Clean Magic Eraser stuck to the back of a quarter or something else to weigh it down a bit, and then you can just sort of “dip” the stylus into it a few times and brush off any residue with a soft brush.
What kind of deck/cartridge/etc. did you end up getting, btw?
My name is andry1, and I’m a hopeless audiophile… passes candle
Heh- just got it and set it up. It is quite small- sort of like a toy.
It works well though. It has a USB cable so I can connect it to the computer/ laptop. It also has a disc for a program that allows you to copy any tracks you have on an old record.
It also has outputs that enable you to connect it to an amplifier or mixer.
I recently got a collection of about 100 cassette tapes for free on Craigslist, a mix of popular and classical. Then I got another collection for free, about 300 popular tapes. Then I bought an Onkyo Integra tape deck for $20. It was a fairly high-end one in its time, listing for $500.
I’m not sure if I want to record this stuff on my computer though. If I did that, I’d have low-quality recordings all mixed in with the good ones. I got this as a cheap way to expand my music collection and hear new (to me) stuff. I’m not into vintage stuff for its own sake.
