The Golden Age of Turntables! 1958-1982 

They will always be available

As will I.

Records/albums not vinyl or vinyls

Doubt it

@@JohnJohn-lk4lq Why? Then you probably dont know shit about vintage stuff...

I have a 125 also. Awesome!

My 1958 PE3310 sounds as good as it did when it was new :-) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CZsttJCHPBA.html

Dude, my 37 year old Acoustic Research sounds even better.

Those old duals are just work horses they may not have alot of electronis but the motor but they are cool to hear work .I got lucky and have. 1219 and a 1229 with a little care they will outlast me.

Great table.. sold mine many years ago😢

I recently bought an old Dual 1219 cheaply, took some care of it, and am impressed with its sound. Playing vinyl records is a great hobby.

Discwasher; I still have mine, still use it.

I prefer listening to pure music without ticks and pops and surface noise to engaging in a meaningless ritual in a fruitless attempt to get rid of those.

@@robertromero8692 no one stated the end result provided the best listening experience. I even miss the time and effort we from that era went through to record the album onto cassette so to have brief case sized holder of them in our car. Again, not saying it held a candle to what files on a thumb drive can provide today but just another memory from ones youth that has value ... Troll away on that

@@CVM222VOLT, so true. The old Discwasher D-3 and some stylus cleaner, maybe a shot of Zerostat too. Taping LP's to cassette (in real time), those were the days. Lotsa fun.

@@martyjewell5683 oh yes! I had a pioneer PL 530 with a good collection of albums, disk washer , zero stat gun and stylus cleaner in a nail polish type container... It was quite a procedure for each side of the record but I was a perfectionist

That’s me. Very humble and still trying to learn at my advanced age. Thanks Kris. Regards, Dave.

Nothing wrong with the design of vintage turntables. Thanks

I've got a SL-5. Sounds great but it's not as nice as the SL-7, SL-10 and SL-15 and it doesn't play upside down.

Truthfully I have found meaningless difference in vinyl to lossy media. For those that do, good for you. But it takes effort, focus, attention and nuance to pick out the differences. Very few have the hearing range to pick up the difference anyway. This is another excuse to go back and spend the same money you did the first time for the fourth or fifth time.

Your nice comment is very much appreciated. That sounds like a fine vintage system.

Thanks.

Check out my other videos. Thanks.

Never stream music

Yes Vinyl is an every day miracle ain’t it 👍 stylus movements just 1/10 the thickness of a human hair then amplified 8000 times. So much opportunity to lose that precious data and yet it can sound incredible on a top flight system. Truly amazing 😲

Regarding your quiet passages .. Lower level signals, which are 100 times (-40 dB) to 300 times (-50 dB) quieter, and are still part of the cut audio, have proportionately lower deviations - 0.000225 mm to 0.000075 mm (225 nm to 75 nm). These values are significantly lower than the wavelength of visible light, but such small details still have to be accurately transferred through the entire manufacturing process to the final pressed record.

More about the microphones used in the recording.

I've had my TD 166 for 38 years. Still plays as good as it did new.

I used to own an AR "Legend" back in the 80s. Sold it when I moved overseas. It was amazing.. Those Micro Seiki's were revolutionary. Thanks for your comments, Dave

I still buy vinyl and Will continue as long as they are available.

@@ebabylon I have about 700 vinyl LP albums, and the equipment to play them that I set up in the 1970s and still play them.

Hey, thanks Joseph!

I also had the AR turntable. So simple, it only had a cheap on/off switch.

This man is definitely an engineer. He used the word phonograph, he has the longest reply and he identified himself as an engineer in the first 20 words. A little late on the announcement, but I still believe him. As someone that fell 3 credits short of a degree in English I have to tell you light year is either two words or hyphenated.

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Me too! I still by vinyl and CD's. For the CD's, get a good DAC.

@@AmericanConstellation a separate DAC is overkill. All you need is a good SACD/DVD player

@@PhuckHue2 you are right..I've got some. I've got a lot of audio stuff. But thanks.

@@PhuckHue2 not really,a separate DAC can be a huge benefit

@@roetsj Nope

Moi aussi! Et je ne vais pas arrêter. Le CD est tellement supérieur au vinyl.

Buy why, im not saying a cd isn't any good im saying its superfluous. For instance I buy all of my music that I purchased on LP and I get a free digital copy with it if I want the CD version of it I just burn it from the digital copy. I get all 3 media types for the price of one thing.

@@horus9220 Tant-mieux ! Si vos CDs vous procurent autant de magie et de bonheur que vos disques vinyles... Ce qui n'est absolument pas le cas de mon côté... Vinyl all the way! The BEST!!!

Me too.

Me!

Yes! I had to pl-530 Pioneer with the big wooden base... a great turn table in the late seventies

Thanks!

Glad you enjoyed it

I remember a major hi-fi magazine, I think it was Stereo Review did an article where they gave a handful of their audiophile experts different price points to put together the best system. Speakers, receivers, amps, turn tables, cartridges..... From the $1,000 budget on up to the "the sky is the limit" budget, most picked the Shure V-15 as their cartridge of choice. Impressive as even then in the early 80s there were exotic audiophile cartridges that cost thousands of dollars.

Me too.

You and I think about every other person in the Vintage Market

I also like the Denon DD models.

Yep. Bought my sl1210mk2 new in 2010. Won't change it. Fantastic turntable.

Shocker 🙄

I went to LP Tunes and bought the Jico replacement stylus for Shure Super Track Plus cartridge for $80. Sound very good.

True about the Shure cart. No way that I'm going back to cassettes. I own CDs, but never listen to them. Not interested in going back and burning CDs either. That's so 2003. Streaming CD quality Tidal is where it's at now. My mix tape is a playlist I make in Tidal. Much easier. Thanks for your comments. Dave

Just my iphone with a mic.

Do you remember reel to reel tapes?

Lurker I agree with your comments about need for music industry to improve on the quality of product and need for good mastering in particular. I enjoy digital especially the hi Rez formats such as DVD Audio SACD etc, but even CD can sound really good too. An example of truly fantastic mastering is Stockfisch records. I have both digital and Vinyl product and it’s just fantastic what’s possible. A can heartily recommend “roadhouses and automobiles” vinyl LP which is widely used at hifi shows. Also a truly fantastic DVD “sara K” the Nautilus tour. Video is average but the SQ is stunning. I enjoy the characteristic “tapey” sound of cassette and like you find I often prefer recorded CD than the CD itself. Having said that Elcaset and R-R are in an altogether different league with an effortless sound quality. I’m a little frustrated at times by decisions made by the music industry. They monumentally messed up DVD Audio abs SACD 5.1 at a time when people were getting into hone cinema so already had the amps and speakers. I mean I understand why quadraphonic failed but how could they manage to fail with DVD Audio/SACD when you just had to hear it and you wanted it. Virgin records stores at one time had a separate listening room for Classical music - if only they had also used it for surround sound demos. I’m also frustrated by the industries marketing people who think picture discs and coloured vinyl is a good idea. Black vinyl sounds good whilst Coloured Vinyl is not as good. There is something of a revival going on with Vinyl but there are far fewer pressing plants now then there were in the past and the lead time in getting a new album pressed can be 6 months. I’m finding quality problems due to the rush to get product out the door. I often receive warped records because they remoulded it too quickly in their hast. I’ve even had problems with vinyl from specialists like Mobile Fidelity. 180gms does not automatically translate to good SQ , it’s all about the mastering. Vinyl is an everyday miracle that can give amazing SQ and worth the ritual that comes with it so please respect the vinyl buyer and don’t sacrifice quality control along the way. We are paying top money for it after all.

@@AmigaA-or2hj Yes, I remember reel to reel audio, video, and computer tapes!

I used to think that. Not anymore. Love my records.

I hear you, Alex. When I was a younger fella we had to be inventive, we built our own amps and scavenged the turntables out of wrecked consoles and got them working again. Sometimes the music didn't sound so good be we got better as we went along. And now, imagine, a good vinyl costing upward of $30, wow. But I still but them over CD's i hear you, Alex

I am playing a Philips 242 , with an arm similar to that of 312 with audio technica. Is shure a better match for philips?

My mom just got about 50 old 78s that were my grandpa's...

I have hundreds of 78s and I would play them on my Fidelity HF42 with the flip over stylus. Occasionally, I would play them on a wind up gramophone.

Nothing wrong with linear. Much more complex and expensive devices than radial. That’s why you don’t see many anymore. Industry has learned to live happily with compromises. Thx.

Excellent comment. I totally agree. Please subscribe. Thanks, Dave

Agreed. I have 2 of 3.

My latest is the Dual 1229q, which I use mostly for quadraphonic recordings.

@@inthezone4123 I have been avoiding quad in my videos thus far. Cool idea, but a brief, impractical fad.

I would say that, for some people, and extra set of speakers would be impractical. I listen to quad every day, and I like how it puts me in the center of the music. I would say it didn't catch on because of the need for the extra space for speakers, coupled with consumer confusion over the 3 quad formats. Fortunately, for quad enthusiasts like myself, there was a lot of great music and gear produced during the quad era.

I had one of those in the 1980s.