Vinyl Junkies …

I’ve been using the Ortofon Concorde carts with Pro S stylii for years. I prefer the simplicity of the plug-in cart and the ability to quickly see where the needle is landing, which is especially helpful if you’re needing to cue up tracks fast and give yourself time to lock in beatmatching.

Mojaxx has been working on a long term review comparison of carts and needles which should be appearing soon, which might persuade me to try something new, until then this is a good vid: https://youtu.be/lQAyxq_olDs

This guy - https://floriankeller.net/perfrect-dj-ca­rtridge/ seems to give a pretty indepth review of actually DJ'in with them and inclined to believe him

Ha - I used to record this guy's radio shows on MiniDisc 20 years ago 🙂
Met him years later in one of the venues he was a resident in and had a great chat.. super nice, humble guy who definitely knows what's up when it comes to DJ-ing 👍

I’ve been using the Ortofon Concorde carts with Pro S stylii for years.

I have exactly the same setup and have no grumbles with it

Nice. What needles are you using on the Stanton’s?
Might be worth keeping the Stanton’s for now and just going for the Nag’s. As the collection of 45’s growing

I've still got some of the blue body ones. If I had to change them now I'd maybe go for the Jico around £40. I had no idea how much people are asking for them now though. I don't play out with vinyl any more so my favourite stylus at the moment are shibata profile.

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Bit of digging going on this Sunday in Peckham innit

http://www.hackneyfleamarket.com/calendar/2019/9/8/peckham-record-fair-2wf6r

From the Ebay prices I need to dig out the spare Shure M44-7 on Technics headshells I have somewhere. Also saw Jico have made their own version of it recently but spendy.

Donkeys years ago I was phoning round vintage jukebox restorers to see if they had NOS M44-7 and N44-7 and rustled up a few of them.

Reading their Kickstarter comments, they haven’t delivered backer Wheel 1s from 2017.

oof.. well that's pretty shit

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nice work

I’ve been thinking of picking up a bunch of resealable sleeves for Discogs sales as they’re cheap. However the last time I encountered one (in a shop) I couldn’t get the record back into the sleeve without the sticky on the flap sticking on the record. Am I just being crap/user error?

The spincare sleeves have a pull off strip so the first time you put them in is not a problem (if you are selling records)

Recent pickup.

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wow - nearly 23 years old. I feel super ancient now!

nice find btw :)

You get better at it but it's best to take the inner out with the record. Hold the sticky bit out of the way with a finger and slip the record & inner back in together. You get better at it after the first thousand. It's easier to get the open stiffer type for records you play a lot.

Some interesting pricing for the Total Refreshment Centre comp on Blue Note out today. £25 at Juno, £30 at Phonica, £35 at Amazon, £40 at HMV. Are we looking at £30+ for single albums on Universal now? Hate to think what future Tone Poets are going to be priced at.

Universal have just come with some massive price increases. Lots of single LP's will be £30 at least.

I think its major labels ruining it for everyone. Buying up all the pressing capacity and then raising prices.

I think that’s me out at those prices, I presume the other majors will follow suit.

Will be interesting to see what the indies can/will do. I brought the (great) Contour album on Touching Bass for £15 in January, I hope we can continue to get vinyl at cheaper prices. Otherwise I hope they embrace CD as an affordable, and readily available, physical format.

Fuck CD's.

Why?

CDs have become what vinyl was in the 90s.

There are still some options below major label prices. The majors are milking it. The audiophile labels that used to get a chance to print some jazz/rock classics are stuck too. The majors are pressing anything with a reputation now.

CD's are a decent option for some titles definitely. Especially given the pressing quality for quiet material is not there at the moment either.

Typically greedy big companies raising prices until people stop buying.

There are lots of reasons not to like CD's but the main ones are brickwall mastering and poorly gain staged playback systems.

A well mastered CD through a system that's not being pushed to 0db can be very rewarding.

I have to say that, as I just gave all my CD's away last year, and bought a record player instead 💁🏼

Jokes aside, sure CD's had their run, I mean I bought and listened to them for a long time - but now there's no point having the physical medium that gives me the same sound as a download.
And to be fair from an "experience" standpoint I never liked CD's much anyway - those tiny booklets, everything's plastic, fumbly handling, too easy to scratch..

Funny really because the CD was designed to overcome a lot of the problems of vinyl, delicate sleeves, easily scratched or contaminated etc.

I do have a lot of both though. It's nice to look through a shelf of CD's and choose something you might have forgotten on a digital device.

On a more positive tip. There are a lot of great 12" and 7" records out there. Albums are not always the most enjoyable.