A Good Turntable
Some people might wonder what it is about me and <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/turntables/708rega/">the Rega P3</a>. Why would I simply settle on the old Rega when there are so many other similarly priced turntables out there?
Some people might wonder what it is about me and <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/turntables/708rega/">the Rega P3</a>. Why would I simply settle on the old Rega when there are so many other similarly priced turntables out there?
Calling anything “IMPORTANT,” particularly a record, often sucks the life out of it and dooms it to a kind of overly academic hell to be debated by talking heads and those that “were there.”
My home, which overlooks a dairy farm, is easy to see from a mile away, invisible from the end of its own driveway. Elevation: 1345'. Population: 3.
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In a sense, DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist are music historians and preservationists. In "The Hard Sell," they take us on a scratching, mixing, looping journey through musical genres and fads, from the wildly obscure to the completely commercial, while employing not one, not two, but <i>eight</i> turntables and a collection of original 45rpm seven-inch singles that would make <a href="http://forum.stereophile.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/84/size/big/… Fremer's hair</a> go straight.
At some point, I hope to post a long list of links (A Long List of Links) to sites that specialize in vinyl LPs. This will be for you, dear readers. But also for me! I have been collecting the web addresses and adding them to a Favorites folder. If you know of some sites that offer great selections of LPs (new or used) and you want to help me go deeper into debt (just kidding, Clifton), please do share! Together we will build a database of all the World Wide Web's most alluring online stores. (Not <i>those</i> kinds of stores! LP stores, you naughty naughties.)
Reader Dismord is curious about your reading and spending habits: How much, over the years, have you spent on audioporn magazines?
<I>Stereophile</I> should start a "Personals" section in the back of the mag—maybe stick 'em in with the classifieds:
For the last few days, in the midst of shipping the gorgeous September issue, I have been thoroughly enjoying the new release from Secretly Canadian's Bodies of Water, <i>A Certain Feeling</i>.