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marty(r)
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beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 4, 2008 - 12:31am PT
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Crate diggers, vinyl fiends, blackened finger 3am record swap lurkers,
Just came about this site and thought I'd pass it along:
http://www.popsike.com/index.html (pretty cool for estimating prices)
The WaxPoetics site/magazine is also pretty great if you enjoy old soul/funk and that nebulous genre of "rare groove": http://www.waxpoeticsmagazine.com/
And if you subscribe to the Poison Idea point of view that record collectors are pretentious a-holes, check this out for a great glimpse at all things archival and punk:
http://killfromtheheart.com/content.php?id=1
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nutjob
Stoked OW climber
San Jose, CA
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Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman.
nobody has this on vinyl:
I'll sell it for $1000. Maybe.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Don't think I'd call myself a "collector" but I've got a lot of old vinyl and still listen to regularly.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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I've got the Pat Ament album.
Really. No kidding. I'm the guy that bought it.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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The original 12" 45 RPM Single:
Knott 4 sale.
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Fish Finder
Social climber
THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART
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I've got some wax laying around.
Hey nutjub... I got that !
Thanks for the links marty(r).
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Nutjob, Believe it or not..I have that Moog on Vinyl!
I got it from my older brother way back.
I'll sell mine for $500 HA!!
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Euroford
Trad climber
chicago
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i'm no vinyl collector, but i do have a j.a. michell syncro turntable with some nice class a homebuilt tube amps. i love being able to buy most albums at discount prices and THEN listen to them with vastly superior fidelity. life is good when i'm kicking back with a whiskey and enjoying the vinyl.
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cintune
climber
the Moon and Antarctica
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Just got a vinyl to mp3 USB turntable. Rip 'em and sell 'em was the plan. But there sure is a sentimental feeling to holding a physical LP in your hands. And the cover art, and the lyric sheets, a whole aesthetic was definitely lost as music got transformed into mere data.
My first two record albums:
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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" Just got a vinyl to MP3 usb turntable..."
Oh, the horror!!! My ears bleed at the mere thought of it.
Perceptual coding algorhytms are the Devil's work, I say.
Will your table make regular CD audio (44.1kHz/fs x 16 bits?)
Funny. It is not very long ago that audio pro's were all griping that the cd's resolution was way to low to sound anywhere near as good as analog studio masters... Now it is considered to be an extravagant waste of bandwidth.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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"Nothing quite so final as the green vinyl"
oops, wrong thread.
Love listening to that stuff,
'Can get most any of the classics for about three bucks a pop.
Anybody running 78's?
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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" Just got a vinyl to MP3 usb turntable..."
Another sign of the Apocalypse!
How has that worked for you? I may have to get one. I may still have a bunch of vinyl sh#t to go there; scratched 'Dead and an EP 'Radio Clash' and other stuff (brian Eno, Jim Caroll, WS Burroughs , Reed, Laurie Anderson, etc; the usual) if, the ex hasn't thrown them out.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Shoot: The Clash is one band whose records rarely show up at the local vinyl emporium.
No way I can click on those links from the OP though.
Absolutely no premeditated shopping on my part allowed! Ha!
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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I used to make master discs on the Nuemann cutting lathe. These discs were then plated to make molds to press copies.
If you are a Socal climber, and drive from Banning up to Tahquitz/Suicide, there is a building with a sign "Apollo Masters" on the NW corner where you turn onto 243. This company makes the blank laquer discs used for mastering. They are likely the only ones left...
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Can it play music too?
That's like the most super gnarlyist looking turntable like thing I've ever seen!
Better not spill any beer into that hot rod when you're queuing up the AC/DC...
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Yes, it has a nice tone arm, you can see in the back there. The cutting head which makes the groove is right front, black and yellow.
The ultimate turntable. Zero wow and flutter, and it was hooked up to these babies:
Yeah, that's the edge of an altec bass horn on the right. I think Juan could pick us up at CalTech...
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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All those widgets are cool,
But discerning Audophiles go for the minimalist rigs:
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cintune
climber
the Moon and Antarctica
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About that USB turntable I am admittedly an audio-quality philistine and my ears have been ruined by too much amplified music anyway. Thanks a lot, Robert Fripp. So the mp3s obviously aren't any kind of connosieur's dream, but it's a fun way to spend time with a shelf full of old records. The pops and clicks and hissing can be minimized somewhat, too, but hey, they just add to the nostalgia factor.
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 4, 2008 - 08:19pm PT
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KSolem,
WOW! Did you ever work with John Golden at K-disc or his newer family operation? When friends of mine were having plates mastered he was always more than generous with his time and expertise, no matter how small or insignificant the band seemed to the vagaries of the market.
Are you still cutting plates? Any stories?
m)))
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Never worked with John or Ken at K Disc, knew them though.
I worked with Steve Hall at Future Disc. I did way more digital mastering than laquer cutting, but that was the way of the business. My office looked like this:
The lathe was in a room next door.
I got out of the business a few years ago. Steve took Future Disc up to the Hood River Valley in Oregon. I am on my new career teaching Pilates, high end privates...
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