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wcmagumba

(3,605 posts) Sun Feb 2, 2025, 05:16 PM Feb 2

Decided to find my old turntable and hook it up to play my small vinyl collection from days gone by...

It is up and running and still sounds great, I found the needed external pre-amp box and plugged in to my Edifier powered speakers. Very happy to listen this way and glad I saved these albums. Checking prices online, a new album costs from $30 to $40 or more in 2025...Wow!

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Decided to find my old turntable and hook it up to play my small vinyl collection from days gone by... (Original Post) wcmagumba Feb 2 OP

I have recordings on vinyl that are out-of-print. no_hypocrisy Feb 2 #1

I found, while digitizing my music some years ago, that old cassettes dirty the tape heads excessively. rzemanfl Feb 2 #2

Too bad those CD-R's might only last 5 years. Shermann Feb 2 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author LiberalArkie Feb 2 #4

None have failed me so far, but they are all backed up. CD players are getting hard to find. rzemanfl Feb 2 #5

no_hypocrisy

(50,263 posts)

1. I have recordings on vinyl that are out-of-print.

Reply to wcmagumba (Original post)

Sun Feb 2, 2025, 05:18 PM

Feb 2

Another reason I still have a turntable.

Now if I could find someone to fix my cassette-player . . . . .

rzemanfl

(30,391 posts)

2. I found, while digitizing my music some years ago, that old cassettes dirty the tape heads excessively.

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #1)

Sun Feb 2, 2025, 05:33 PM

Feb 2

That was a stupid project for me to undertake because everything had to be done in real time. If I'd paid myself minimum wage, I probably would have enough money to pay for a streaming service for the rest of my life. Of course, there were no such things back then.

I blame Walter Mosley for having a character in one of his novels pay his son a lot of money to put all his vinyl on CDs. Actually, the kid was not really his son. The kid was born to his wife during their marriage. He hired some of his friends to help him and did the job really fast.

Mosley is a must-read author.

Shermann

(8,835 posts)

3. Too bad those CD-R's might only last 5 years.

Reply to rzemanfl (Reply #2)

Sun Feb 2, 2025, 05:40 PM

Feb 2

Factory CD's use a different mechanism to encode the audio data and are good for 50-100 years.

Response to Shermann (Reply #3)

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rzemanfl

(30,391 posts)

5. None have failed me so far, but they are all backed up. CD players are getting hard to find.