Unless you are using a Bang Olufsen, AR, Forsell, Verdier, Rockport, J.A. Michell ($5,000+) or a Technics turntable or even better you got crappy sound. Since my hearing has been destroyed by Led Zeppelin and the Doors a long time ago I hear so poorly now that even the 12 Stone Toddlers and Weedy Factory sound good on my iPod.

The cute little gimmicky set shown here is just that cute and gimmicky. As far as turntables and all that, as I said before, I lived it, you can have it!

But as for me personally, the Digital Compact Disk and subsequently, the iPod brought about an incredible revolution as to the way we purchase, listen and store our favorite recordings. I dislike the high maintenance and wear of vinyl recordings and turntables, but there is something really special about it.

Most audiophiles dismiss the iPod’s sound quality as too processed and digitized. Amid criticisms from the audiophile community, Apple came up with the Äpple Lossless”audio format that is supposed to substantially reduce the immediate loss of recording quality when ripping apart CDs. For most people, an MP3 or AAC sound file doesn’t make that much of a difference, but for someone with “Trained” ears, the Apple Lossless format is a much more acceptable compromise than the high compression sound formats, so popular with digital portable devices.

maybe if it were a stage 2 w/ all the exclusive details we haven’t heard from gabe, yet. :)

It would go around too fast :)

then i saw the car is a clubman. no thanks. maybe if it were a stage 2 w/ all the exclusive details we haven’t heard from gabe, yet. :)

Ugh, you can can have all that old vinyl crap. I’m glad they are gone and I don’t have to store all those gazillions of records anymore. When an album was new the sound was terrific but after a few weeks, months just bad unless you owned one of those very expensive turn tables, which most of us didn’t. I had nearly 300 “Albums”. One whole section of my living room was used to store that mess. I had friends that had whole rooms dedicated to Album storage. I lived it, you can have it.

That said, I do wish I still had some of the great cover art and do still have a few Miles Davis and Hugh Masakela covers like Kinda Blue and The Americanization of Ooga Booga hanging around.

Long live the iPod!

Jeez, maybe they could bring back 8 track also… or maybe the old 78 breakable records…. not. LOL

whew!

I am plenty old enough to remember vinyl albums and it is my firm belief that the records should do the turning, not the sound system. :)

I agree – and it’s not just the older generations. I’ve proudly never purchased a tape in my lifetime but I have plenty of records I like to get our from time to time. Okay, half of them are my dad’s but I still love playing them and the process of playing them.

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