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Very true. Listening to classical recordings, I get nostalgia for a bygone era (a shrink would say I'm avoiding reality:)).
Vinyl for me is a strictly "listening to music" affair -- as if I were at a concert.
All the paraphernalia (cleaners, dusters, etc)are out and at easy reach. I usually have a listening programme which starts with a "kind" of music (concerto, jazz, etc). I locate the records and take out a few in the beginning. These records are added to the "active stack" i.e. LPs that are next to the TT (rather than on the shelves) and comprises newly purchased ones (I love to LOOK at them for some days, as well as LISTEN).
Clean the stylus (even if it's clean) AND I spin the vinyl.
Then I sit comfortably with a glass AND a bottle (so as to refill with minimum effort), and the session begins. For me this is an "interactive" experience: sometimes I speak to the musicians (or laugh, etc -- as in some of F Zappa's lyrics/speaches).
Anyone here ever been moved by reproduced MUSIC to the point of tears (but never dared mention it)?? Of course I don't mean when you can't get speaker positioning right...
OK, I know, this isn't a manly thing, but still :)
Very true. Listening to classical recordings, I get nostalgia for a bygone era (a shrink would say I'm avoiding reality:)).
Vinyl for me is a strictly "listening to music" affair -- as if I were at a concert.
All the paraphernalia (cleaners, dusters, etc)are out and at easy reach. I usually have a listening programme which starts with a "kind" of music (concerto, jazz, etc). I locate the records and take out a few in the beginning. These records are added to the "active stack" i.e. LPs that are next to the TT (rather than on the shelves) and comprises newly purchased ones (I love to LOOK at them for some days, as well as LISTEN).
Clean the stylus (even if it's clean) AND I spin the vinyl.
Then I sit comfortably with a glass AND a bottle (so as to refill with minimum effort), and the session begins. For me this is an "interactive" experience: sometimes I speak to the musicians (or laugh, etc -- as in some of F Zappa's lyrics/speaches).
Anyone here ever been moved by reproduced MUSIC to the point of tears (but never dared mention it)?? Of course I don't mean when you can't get speaker positioning right...
OK, I know, this isn't a manly thing, but still :)