The Vinyl Thread: What are you spinning?

Anyone still playing their records? I do all the time. Still buying new vinyl as well.

To start it off. One of my favs.



Haven't played this one in a while. T Rex, The Slider! Sipping a 12 yr Macallen Double oak cask. Life is good!

Please tell me there's some folks here that still cherish their Vinyl!?! I have a 70's Dual turntable, A Bellari tube driven phono preamp, Yamaha amp, going into Vienna Acoustic speakers. Sounds amazing for a 10x25 mancave.

Show us some records we may not know about, new stuff, rare stuff, your cherished collectors items.....

T Rex always reminds me of our old friend Gloria Jones who was Marc Bolan's girlfriend and a singer herself. She used to come to some of the clubs in West Hollywood and perform and then we became friends and used to go to her house and I'd sing with her after the barbeque. A really nice and fun lady. She was driving the car that killed Marc Bolan when it crashed into a tree. Just a weird old random memory associated with T Rex. I got rid of my vinyl years ago. After years of collecting and then years as a DJ during the disco era, they were just too much and taking up too much room. Enjoy your vinyl!!

We have plenty. But I can't remember what LP I played last. Sorry!

It's the Vinyl Countdown ;]

Got boxes of the stuff. Technics SL-1800, Sansui 210, old Bose 201's hanging from the ceiling in the corners of the living room.

Like Tom, I got rid of mine. Not sure I should have, but life changes made it the right decision at the time.

I must say I really miss the artwork, etc. of the album covers and inserts...

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Three to four thousand bits of vinyl, LPs, 10" Microgrooves, and (a few) 45s. Still growing with difficulty - space is running out - acquisition is faster than the rate with which kids pack things away - "I'll take this. Thanks, Dad!"

Maybe six hundred 78s, mostly 10" but a few 12" - stuff from the early 1900s to the early 1960s. Growing as crime of opportunity presents itself.

Clear Audio turntable for the LPs.

Various old Dual decks for 78s, Microgrooves, and mono LPs. Also a Audio Technica ATLP-120XUSB for this purpose, as well - variable speed control - infinitely variable within 8 or 16% range. Also a Metzner Starlight -16 to 90+ RPM turntable with a Tokyo Sound tone arm - infinitely variable speed control. Probably more stuff in storage - but the kids have packed off some of it - "I'll take this. Thanks, Dad." - my son who left home first got to high-grade pick - daughter has done OK, though.

A variety of cartridges - Clear Audio, Stanton, Pickering, Audio Technica, Linn, and probably etc.

A Rek-o-Kut phono pre-amp with a generic pre-RIIA roll-off curve for pre-1955 recordings. Would like a better more flexible unit offering a wider variety of roll-off curves. But this is good enough.

Older Adcom tuner/pre-amp and (beefy) power amp. Good enough. Never felt any need to upgrade.

Nice enough, Danish-made, pre-Klipsch-acquisition, Jamo tower speakers (B&W sound on a budget) with matching sub-woofer (when Jaco Pastorius yards off on a drop-D tuned open bottom bass string, you can watch the waves in the 1956 oak flooring).

Carver cassette deck.

Okki-Nokki vacuum record cleaner.

1918 Aolian Vocalian vertical cabinet wind-up gramophone - so sweet - out-performs modern stereos with acoustically recorded disks.

And uhmm ... errrr ... digital .... cough .... (please don't tell the purists who already disrespect me enough because I use transistors instead of tubes ) .... a nice enough Cambridge Audio deck.

Nashville West with Mr. Clarence White...

Kenwood turntable (model escapes me right now), Yamaha CR-800 through JBL 4410s.

Still have about 2500-3000 LPs and assorted EPs, 10-inches, 45s and 78s -- a little bit of everything. Pared down to just my Marantz 6350Q and 2252B. Planning on liquidating it all and going digital eventually, but I still find so much joy in vinyl. I don't acquire so much anymore except for the occasional find at Goodwill now and then. I have a soft spot for stupid novelty records. Lol!

Love my vinyl and vintage Thorens TD145, and I'll never give them up. Still buying new releases too; most recently, this one.

I still have about 600 LPs... dating back to when I was in college in the early 70's. They are stored in "Peaches Records" crates in the spare bedroom. I find myself digging around in there from time to time. Last record I listened to was Paul Butterfield's Better Days.

Dual 1254 Belt Drive; Marantz 1060; KLH Model Twenty Two.

twocorgis said:

Love my vinyl and vintage Thorens TD145, and I'll never give them up. Still buying new releases too; most recently, this one.

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Great photo! Hendrix Experience playing on the beach in Maui. Those are some serious wind-socks on the mikes!

twocorgis said:

Love my vinyl and vintage Thorens TD145, and I'll never give them up. Still buying new releases too; most recently, this one.

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How is it?? I've found that many of the Hendrix Family releases have been hit or miss. (likely stuff that Jimi himself would never put out) Miami Pop comes to mind. I listened once and gave it to a friend who is a total Hendrix freak. I found it largely underwhelming but would always love to get my hands on more great performances in pro audio quality.


Currently spinning Virgil Simpson: Cuttin Grass Vol I. ( both vol 1+2 are likely my fav releases of the last couple years. Great stuff!! )

I have Phil Ochs vinyl-s that I'm spinning. What a distinct and creative voice he had....and a troubled soul.

I am a fan of Sturgill Simpson's music. I bought his first two albums on LP... High Top Mountain and Metamodern Sounds in Country Music. I enjoyed his traditional country vocals and his telecaster chops. I'll have to check out the Bluegrass albums!

On my platter - last listening a while ago - Stan Getz w Joao Gilberto & Heloisa (Miucha ) Buarque de Hollanda

The last vinyl thing on a turntable was a record by Cano, a Francophone group from northern Ontario. It was from my wife's side of the collection, a favourite from Uni days. She asked me to dig it out. It did not live up to her memories of it. Killer electric violin player, good female singer, and so so, so so for the rest. My son packed it off to listen to. He will probably sell it.

I need to get a stylus for my turntable...then:

sailingshoes72 said:

Great photo! Hendrix Experience playing on the beach in Maui. Those are some serious wind-socks on the mikes!

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There had to be. There were 60mph gusts during the performance!

Midnight Toker said:

How is it?? I've found that many of the Hendrix Family releases have been hit or miss. (likely stuff that Jimi himself would never put out) Miami Pop comes to mind. I listened once and gave it to a friend who is a total Hendrix freak. I found it largely underwhelming but would always love to get my hands on more great performances in pro audio quality.


Currently spinning Virgil Simpson: Cuttin Grass Vol I. ( both vol 1+2 are likely my fav releases of the last couple years. Great stuff!! )

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I agree that most of them are incredibly underwhelming, and definitely something Jimi would have never approved of, but this one is a bit of an outlier for the posthumous releases. I't's basically the entire performance from the ill-fated "Rainbow Bridge', and the quality is excellent, even the accompanying Blu-Ray DVD.

Another recent vinyl buy (and obligatory Guild content) is the latest by James McMurtry, and I think it might be the best release of 2021, and his career, for that matter.

sailingshoes72 said:

I am a fan of Sturgill Simpson's music. I bought his first two albums on LP... High Top Mountain and Metamodern Sounds in Country Music. I enjoyed his traditional country vocals and his telecaster chops. I'll have to check out the Bluegrass albums!

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His earlies incarnation, Sunday Valley, kicks Mucho Derrière! (Many of those tunes were reworked for Cutting Grass! )

This my fav stuff of his. Serious chicken pickin whoop ass!!

The album Charlie Barnet on Everest Records, purchased today, mint condition, for $5. I now have three vinyl record shops within a five mile radius of my home.