Awhile back I posted that Bev had gifted me a USB turntable for xmas. I have played with it off and on, grabbing must haves first and flipping through the pile of LP's. Lately I have been on a tear.
Idle observation .... Colombia Records produced by far some of the best vinyl in it's time. Best in the fact that a lot of the stuff I am converting is over 30 years old with various amounts of play time under the stylus. The Columbia vinyl has converted with the least amount of hiss/pop or general mayhem.
One thing I was thinking about is that the older player technology (record player, carseette, 8-track) was of a physical nature. There were belts, rollers, motors, etc. involved. I remember the strobe discs you could use on a turntable to calibrate the turntable speed. Now all that is taken care of using the CPU clock. There was also a physical layer involved whether it was the stylus or the recorder heads. Weird how things have evolved. I can't help but think our grandkids are going to be amazed that we use hard drives with mechanical spinning parts. Weird how things have/are evolved/evolving.
Listening to Canned Heat "Living the Blues' at the moment. Ripped off of vinyl. This record was release in 1968 as a double album and in fact was the first double LP produced that placed well on album charts. I can see the store I walked into to buy this sucker. Remember record stores? LOL
David
