Vinyl records

Its like anything else. If you're a pizza maker you stop eating pizza.
When you work in a high end audio environment you no longer listen to a system... you evaluate it.
I can't tell you how much of the music I owned became work related just to sell gear. I had to get out of that world.

My love of listening to music had completely faded. I have wonderful old gear that I barely used for years because listening and selling gear was essentially work.

I really dislike MP3 - even at 320 the music doesn't sound its best... but the format rules for portability. Love it on the IPod... hate it on my system.

Give me CD for the most part. I do miss the "warmth" of vinyl and when I had some tube gear nothing could beat it... but again it felt like work after CD began to take hold in the market.

^Thorens TT? Can't really see it.

Nothing sounds better on a good system. Although in the nineties CD as a format really had some life to it. Digital to audio conversion separates made great strides to find warmth from 1's and zeroes. Companies like Theta and Mark Levinson really understood what you could do with signal processing to give digital life. I love the sound of vinyl... just hate the hassle. I'm a lazy old man these days when it comes to music.

I guess I'm old school. Artists used to have the luxury to develop over time and really work their craft. Now everything is faster and you get a lesser quality product from those who release it and it seems that you no longer have to have musical ability or even a vision of what you're saying. Its become "finding the hook" and selling the single.

In addition I miss "cover art" (the iconic image of Houses of The Holy above makes this point) and the effort it took to really give the consumer an idea of what the music was about. Sorry... like I said, I pine for "the good ole days".

Enjoy the holiday Bro.

I sold Audio Research, Cary and Conrad Johnson - unreal sound from Audio Research. If I ever decide to go into vinyl again I'll track down a refurbished SP14

I love Zoot Allures... Black Napkins is my fave Zappa guitar piece.

Ahhhh Linear... I sold B&O for a time but never this far back. Great product though. The only issue I ever had with their gear is that you could only use their cartridges with their products. Flexibility be damned.