Originally Posted by KCUnited:
Thanks. Acquired it from an abandoned storage locker when I moved to midtown KC many many years ago.
EDIT: its all fun and games til it needs a new cartridge
I had an Ortofon 2M Red on my Music Hall, but recently upgraded to the 2M Blue - I found just the stylus on ebay for $130 (a STEAL) and the Blue goes into the same cartridge as the Red, so all I had to do was swap out the stylus. Thing is ROCKING. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Easy 6:
My son got me Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced, and Sturgill Simpson’s Metamodern Sounds in Country Music on vinyl for Christmas... so that’s what I’ve been spinning
There’s just nothing quite like vinyl, for lack of a better term the music just “breathes easier”... there’s an airy, full sound to it that’s missing from digital
It's got nothing to do with the format, other than music on vinyl is simply mastered better than digital, usually. There's some good sounding digital, but since the late 90s the emphasis has been on loud mastering with goosed bass and treble. Most of the time vinyl just sounds better because it doesn't have that wonky EQ with ear-bleedy digital clipping that digital has had since about 1998 or so.
Beware of the dreaded "REMASTERED" bullshit on CDs, too. Rarely, if ever, makes an improvement.
