This is a great hobby, all through my years I have learned not only to enjoy great music such as classical,pop,jazz,and much more. Most of my listening was during quite times, at times of lose and trauma, that is always associated with life. I can now in my older years recognize good music and yes bad music. I know may will tell me music is subjective,I will have to disagree.I would like to know how many young listeners of today with their casual listening of much brain dead music, be has educated and well informed as we are at audiogon in their later years.
I just wanted to play a record
A friend visited my home yesterday and asked to listen to one of my LP's. I powered up. He then said, "do you have to do all of that just to listen to a record?"
I normally don't even give it a thought as I go through my routine to power up....but this time, I realized that it is a far cry from what I had to do to listen to and LP with my first reciever.
Thirty three years ago a Sansui 771 Was my first reciever along with my Technics SL 1500 turntable. I pushed a button on the reciever and everything was on. Another switch for the turntable and I was in business. Yesterday, I realized that I had to turn on nine different components to play an LP. A preamp, four monoblocs, the turntable, the phono preamp, the servo control for my speakers and the record cleaning machine to clean the record.
He told me that I'm crazy.
He might be right.
I normally don't even give it a thought as I go through my routine to power up....but this time, I realized that it is a far cry from what I had to do to listen to and LP with my first reciever.
Thirty three years ago a Sansui 771 Was my first reciever along with my Technics SL 1500 turntable. I pushed a button on the reciever and everything was on. Another switch for the turntable and I was in business. Yesterday, I realized that I had to turn on nine different components to play an LP. A preamp, four monoblocs, the turntable, the phono preamp, the servo control for my speakers and the record cleaning machine to clean the record.
He told me that I'm crazy.
He might be right.