What genre is it mainly? My Jnr wants to buy a record I bought for his dad about 15 years ago, it cost me £20 second hand at the time & as vinyl wasn't 'fashionable' at that time, I felt I'd been robbed. It's now £75 on Discogs, so i've told him to borrow his dads for a while. His dad can't play it anyway as Jnr has borrowed his decks & mixer!
There is a simple bit of kit that you can play back cassettes and put it onto MP3 on your laptop!!
Good parenting!I got lucky. I never tried to influence my kids on music, it just turned out that years later as we became mates each separately revealed they adored tons of the music they’d heard in the car or from my ‘study’ over the years. An eclectic mix, I’ve wide tastes. I received a wonderful surprise present recently where one bought me an Italo Disco 12” import through Discog, all the way from Germany. I first heard it in 1984 on a Cala Bassa ferry from San Antoniio, the missing piece in a genre jigsaw. Talk about kind hearted
I was similar with mine. Two are into the stuff I like. The youngest is into pop and always says my music is crap. I just smile and hope he comes round sooner or later.I got lucky. I never tried to influence my kids on music, it just turned out that years later as we became mates each separately revealed they adored tons of the music they’d heard in the car or from my ‘study’ over the years. An eclectic mix, I’ve wide tastes. I received a wonderful surprise present recently where one bought me an Italo Disco 12” import through Discog, all the way from Germany. I first heard it in 1984 on a Cala Bassa ferry from San Antoniio, the missing piece in a genre jigsaw. Talk about kind hearted
Music is an endless seam that I’ll never be able to exhaust. There’s new music ahead, still plenty of undiscovered old music behind me, and new genres to explore to the sides. It does make life wonderful.Exciting isn’t it, all the wonderful new music, whilst in the backs of our minds the wealth of the old. Not enough hours in the day, optimism, escapism, music literally makes life wonderful!
So glad, all the way back to age 10, that I looked after my vinyls, even when drunk. I’ve only ever damaged one, somehow Unknown Pleasures got an awful scratch, but had two copies so all was good.
Do those cassette to MPs work well? As in do they lose sound quality?There is a simple bit of kit that you can play back cassettes and put it onto MP3 on your laptop!!
I can only begin to imagine what your vinyl collection is like, I'd guess diverse!
I've figured that as I put a cassette in my tape deck the other day from an old rave tape pack and it sounded like complete shite, it would be worth giving it a go.
I thought 1200's were silver? 1210's are black. I'm only saying this because I'm a member of a Technics FB group & they're very pedantic and don't want people getting ripped off.
I thought 1200's were silver? 1210's are black. I'm only saying this because I'm a member of a Technics FB group & they're very pedantic and don't want people getting ripped off.
Edit to add, the lid on @ozzygull 's deck would sell for £50
in about 1980, Technics could be kind of affordable, but they had a far more expensive other brand. Any ideas of the brand name?Yes mine is a Sl1210GRHow long have you had any interest in HiFi? As an aspirational kid
Late 80's early 90's. I think it was about 1990 when I'd saved all my money and borrowed extra from my mum to buy an Aiwa separates system from Co-Op down London Road. I thought it was the dogs b**locks as it had a turntable that the cartridge would turn over and play the other side of the record & 5CD's.How long have you had any interest in HiFi? As an aspirational kid
Think is was'96 when I got my Marantz Amp and Wharfdale Diamond speakers which I also thought were amazing. I still have them today and only ditched the Marantz last year as it had a really annoying hum. I only got into Technics when I started to learn to mix in about 2003. I've still got the same pair I bought 2nd hand 20 years later and I'm still shite at mixing. 
Late 80's early 90's. I think it was about 1990 when I'd saved all my money and borrowed extra from my mum to buy an Aiwa separates system from Co-Op down London Road. I thought it was the dogs b**locks as it had a turntable that the cartridge would turn over and play the other side of the record & 5CD's.
I'd imagine it wasn't Aiwa, maybe Sony but probably not!
I use one of these - it's excellent. I've converted some old multi-tracking songs I did back in the 80s to digital, and TBH on headphones direct from the laptop they sound better than ever! It works with vinyl too.
That looks interesting. I guess you still have to have the flat surface space (preferably dust free- so not the floor!) to put it on - but it tucks away neatly when not in use?
