Remember records? 8 tracks? reel to reel?!?
into new music and equipment? still love older equipment?

ehhh, if this forum does as well as the others, then there will be a reply here next month.

Unfortunately...YES! I'm old enough to remember all that stuff - and to have used a good deal of it.

I wish I hadnt gotten rid of the old tube amp/reciever that I had when I was a teenager.
you could spin the tuner dial like a top, and the needle would just slowly creep up or down the dial.
Nicest stereo sound I ever had. full,warm, rich. and that nice soft way it turned off. fading the volume out and ending with a nice thump.
oh, and the hum when you fired it up. now that was power!

If only I had it today with the speakers and other equipment I have now.

allright heres a topic: whats your dream system, and what do you have now?

I must admit that if money were no object that I would have Klpisch speakers. but at nearly $4000 each (ya EACH) It will never happen.

welcome to the first joining member: Moods.
the needle has been dropped. ahhh the soothing crackle begins.

Yay!

I used to work at National Record Mart in the early 80's ... free vinyl! Well, it was free after it had been played in the store for a month. We still have a record player tied into the all the necessary audio / video trappings. My husband listens to his music (mostly CD's now but vinyl from time to time) on his Genelec 1032A speakers while I still listen on my big heavy Techniques speakers that I bought in 1978.
I've never been an "audiophile" virgin vinyl collector, just a play-em-till-they're-white record abuser.
I have all my brothers and sisters old 45's too (mostly white) and a bunch of old 78's which I can only listen to on my Mom's very old player.

Speaking of "soothing crackle" ...
My husband listens to a lot of IDM (intelligent dance music) which is music created entirely of electronic sounds (no samples or real instruments) and hovers within certain guidelines. What kills me is that most of the IDM junkies worship a couple guys that call themselves, "Boards of Canada". Their big thing is making their music 'waver' like old documentary videos (you'd have to hear it). http://www.last.fm/music/Boards+of+Canada
And other IDMers that actually ADD scratch and crackle to their electronic music.

Didn't we go digital to get away from all that?

yeah. and there is FILTER > ARTISTIC > ADD FILM GRAIN in ps. so go figure.
isnt IDM similar to electronica?

I am currently looking for a turntable.
a coworker gave me a KLH powered sub because he thought it was blown. "it sounds all muffled" he told me. well yeah, its cutoff was 90 Hz. (helloooo its a sub)
anyway it works well and i later added some KLH satelites.
the main speakers are 10 inch rockford fosgates in old techniques 3 way boxes.

in my workshop/pool room I have some yamaha speakers that I got for dirt cheap.

My wife has hundreds of LP's. I would like to think that armor-all would work on records since its made for vinyl. but she dosent believe me.

"isn't IDM similar to electronica?"

OH, slap you silly!

Try this Flash driven history of electronic music (the "tutorial" is pretty funny).
Even if you're not into "electronic music" the site is fascinating.

http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/music.swf

Be sure to click "Downtempo" then "Electronica" (blue button all by itself near the bottom of the window).

thats quite a cool site!!! I wish it covered more genres though.

speaking of early synth music: check this out. it was sequenced on apple 2e machines onto DAT.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/r...k=015&disc=001

ok. my son is starting into the DIY scene and is having me record his songs and put them onto cd.
we go into the garage and use a JVC cassette deck that is hooked to the stereo in the garage. the deck and other equiplent is suitable for the job the only real problem is our lack of a proper mic. right now the deck has 2 inputs for mic. (left/right) I am using 2 pair of old "over the ear" headphones as substitute mics. he is happy with the result but i wish for better. I suppose I'll lay down the money and get a cheap pair of mics for around $80. someday. I'm thinking that maybe a computer mic will work better.

any suggestions from the recording industrialists out there?

For microphones, my husband suggests a couple used Shure SM57's. The SM57's would be a better microphone used, than you could probably get for any new microphone for the same money. You could look for an old Tascam 4 or 8 track cassette recorder (should be cheap because no one wants to use cassette anymore).

What kind of music is he recording?