Vinyl - back but it never really went away

Alan Surrey

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Long live vinyl.
From memory, my vinyl pick up cartridge has a flat frequency response up to about 40kHz.
A CD has 44,000 samples per second so can just about represent a signal at 22kHz, but not say anything about its amplitude or phase. This is why vinyl can sound so good compared with CD. :)Enjoy
On the other hand, in my experience, a cheap CD player usually sounds much better than a cheap vinyl player.
Zep said:
I comepletely agree, but the collecting of lossless format digital recordings has become its own version of vinyl, but for people with less cupboard space. Then you get into the same rabbit hole of equipment but you remove the turntable and substitute a DAC.

All different flavours of the same obsession!
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zagatoes30

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Shocked I bought Mrs Z, Rag N Bone man album for her birthday last week and she told me it was the first vinyl record she has ever owned - shocked she was 51.
 
dgmx5

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This thread is a disappointment, I was expecting to see some quality vinyl roofs.

Where's the Morris Marina?
 
Tallman

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To combine vinyl with cars: I remember once getting a floppy vinyl of the engine sound of the Alfa Romeo Tipo 159 Alfetta in a car magazine, must have been in the late 70’s or early 80’s. Recorded at the time in the pits or so, you would hear the howling of the compressor from the back of the track and then the full sound as it passed. The adrenaline was palpable. Can you imagine, 425BHP from a 1.5L straight 8 with dual stage roots type supercharger in the late 50’s! One of the most successful racing cars ever made with 47 wins out of 54 Grand Prix’s entered.

And then driving it, with a top speed of 303Km/h, no seat belts, no proper helmet, narrow tyres, drum brakes, basically a death sentence if anything went wrong. What balls those drivers had and what a talent Fangio must have had to survive this!

Great listening for a young total car need like me. No trace of the record on Google unfortunately but I did find this, which is even better:

 
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Zep

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I have a cassette of Mark Hales driving an F40 at Donnington which came free with Fast Car magazine. It has quite a lot to answer for :D
 
Team GCR

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Zep said:
I have a cassette of Mark Hales driving an F40 at Donnington which came free with Fast Car magazine. It has quite a lot to answer for :D
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Reminds me of the book written by Nick Mason and Mark Hales "Into the Red" about some of the cars in Nick Mason's collection, including his F40 which came with a CD of all the cars being driven on track. I have a copy somewhere!
 
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Team GCR said:
Reminds me of the book written by Nick Mason and Mark Hales "Into the Red" about some of the cars in Nick Mason's collection, including his F40 which came with a CD of all the cars being driven on track. I have a copy somewhere!
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I think it was Mason’s F40 that he drove, so might well be the F40 part of the same thing.
 
Vampyrebat

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Zep said:
I have a cassette of Mark Hales driving an F40 at Donnington which came free with Fast Car magazine. It has quite a lot to answer for :D
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Maybe you should keep it for that inevitable day when we are all forced into the electric car............You can then play it loud to compensate for the; lack of noise!...
 
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Doctor Houx

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Nayf said:
As a former collector (who bought another thing yesterday)…
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This thread has been making me feel guilty for a while, and Nayf’s cartoon was the final straw, so action needed to be taken.

For the last 3 years or so I’ve been very lazy and just streamed all my music from my phone to this very competent Porsche Bluetooth speaker. Easy peasy!

However, the guilt became too much to bear as I had this beautiful but totally unused system in the same room. Cyrus pre and power amps, Project turntable with carbon fibre arm and project valved phono amp for the vinyl. Also have old but great quality Arcam CD player and one of the first digital receivers from VideoLogic from about 20 years ago, all plumbed into a pair of Monitor Audio GS20 speakers. 932079320993210

So I’ve dusted it all down, turned it on and it all works! I’ve added a Bluetooth receiver and DAC so I can stream from my phone into the Amps and speakers so it’s now far more useable. What a waste all these years and so glad this thread prompted me into action.

Now settling down to listen to the Live Stiffs Records tour album on vinyl from 1977 and I’m straight back there as an angry teenager!
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