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PaulKey
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 8:18 am Posts: 385
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I still have my Rega Planar 3. It was one amazingly good deck. I very occasionally put on an LP.
Does anyone remember the classic Pioneer PL12D ? Had one of those before the Rega.
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ethelredalready
Occasionally has a life
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 11:10 am Posts: 119 Location: West Wales
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PL12D - Cor that takes me back a few years. 1972 or thereabouts as I recall. Looked nice was pretty solid and doubled-up for use in Discos. AAAAhh youth.......
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dogbert10
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:23 pm Posts: 638 Location: 3959 miles from the centre of the Earth - give or take a bit
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There are some nice turntables here.
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Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:18 am |
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bangingtechno
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Joined: Thu Apr 30, 2009 1:54 pm Posts: 19
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A little off topic *slightly* but I use:
Twin Technics 1210's with a Pioneer DJM600 linked to a Gemini stage age 2x150W with twin 115W Peavey speakers
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Mike
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Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:16 pm |
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saspro
Site Admin
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:53 pm Posts: 8603 Location: location, location
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Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:17 pm |
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bangingtechno
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Joined: Thu Apr 30, 2009 1:54 pm Posts: 19
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Ortofon Scratch, the needle gives fantastic grip and a higher output than most of the other needles, even though I Play techno/NuNRG mainly. 7mV / 4-5mV to the other ones in the series.
I did use OF Nightclubs, but to be honest they're biased towards the bass frequencies and that's not ideal when playing funky or mid-lead techno
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Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:23 pm |
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saspro
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:53 pm Posts: 8603 Location: location, location
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Used to have nightclubs on my 1210's back in the day. Not cheap but worked for D&B (handy when I worked at a DJ shop)
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Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:38 pm |
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bangingtechno
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Joined: Thu Apr 30, 2009 1:54 pm Posts: 19
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Gratz! Ooo D+B vs Tehno at your place on the meetup then?
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Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:41 pm |
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saspro
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:53 pm Posts: 8603 Location: location, location
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That was about 10 years ago (damn I'm starting to feel old). Although I do know a few good club nights for banging house & techno I can get guestlist at.
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Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:45 pm |
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bangingtechno
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Joined: Thu Apr 30, 2009 1:54 pm Posts: 19
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I can get us guestlist for anywhwere the Liberators or the Stay up Forever Collective are playing as well - good friends of ours, they played many, many club nights up here! Do they still do the Brixton Academy, or is that no longer on the cards
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Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:48 pm |
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saspro
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:53 pm Posts: 8603 Location: location, location
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Haven't been to Brixton for a while since Nowhere moved to Vauxhall
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Thu Apr 30, 2009 4:08 pm |
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BigRedX
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Joined: Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:33 am Posts: 667
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I have a mid-priced Project turntable for the sole purpose of digitising my collection of vinyl that never made it to commercial CD release.
Personally I think that there is a lot of mis-placed nostalgia about vinyl. By the late 70s and 80s buying vinyl was a complete nightmare unless you were either a Pink Floyd or classical music fan. Most pop and rock releases came on increasingly thinner slices of crap-encrusted plastic. Records which were full of pops and clicks before they'd even been played, were dished or pressed off-centre, and sometimes all three at once! These days vinyl is only any good because it has to compete with CDs and other digitised music. For me CDs couldn't become mainstream quick enough. I'll take a slight difference in audio fidelity over the potential to render the music unlistenable by simply putting the medium back in its packaging any day.
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onemac
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 10:14 pm Posts: 1598 Location: Right here...... Right now.......
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Rega Planar 2 - bought decades ago Lovely warm sound. Originally hooked up to a NAD 3020 amp and MS 45Ti speakers. I was young then..... Al
_________________ Eternally optimistic in a 'glass half empty' sort of way....
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Thu May 07, 2009 3:06 pm |
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ethelredalready
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 11:10 am Posts: 119 Location: West Wales
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I can't totally disagree, though your strictures about the poor vinyl are mainly true of "Pop" albums. The problem with lots of Cds, of music from that era, including those that are allegedly "remastered" is that the original sound quality was apparently so poor. Honking base, scratchy treble and an overwhelmingly nasty forward, harsh and hard mid-range ruin numerous recordings from, the early seventies through 'til the eighties (in my opinion...). Without wishing to come over all "audiophile" what's missing is "openness" - a sense of space. Joan Armatrading's discs from this era (early eighties) are largely immaculately done on both vinyl and CD, so it was a matter of taste, not technology....
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Frank Parker
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