You don't have to spend like 100k to make vinyl sound good. But still, a good turntable, a good cartridge and a good phono preamp is gonna cost a bit.

I don't even listen to much vinyl anymore but still think a well pressed vinyl with proper mastering, played on a good setup is the pinnacle of audio.

That said, most people who listen to (electronic) music on vinyl do it with SL1200's, using some beaten old Shure cartridges and a cheap DJ mixer as the phono preamp. That setup tends to sound to sound a bit bad. Old Pioneer mixers have especially horrible phono preamps.

You should hear the R2R master tape..

A nicely recorded tape, playing from a Studer A820 is a thing of beauty

I wouldn't put that in the same category. You can't buy music on R2R tape, it's not really a music distribution medium.

It would also be insanely expensive to buy one and all the tapes required to transfer your music collection on them.

Sure you can - its not cheap though, as you can see:
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Plebs will never buy a R2R at these prices.. but clearly some nutjobs do, and there are clearly enough of them for a music store to keep on doing this sort of stuff

naomi whatsername buys a 45k Hermes handbag ffs

Yeah, i hate them for that..

you're kidding. mine has a CD player in it (old banger, broke down today ) and when you disconnect the battery, it wants you to enter a code, which the seller never gave me, and Peugeot want 25eu

thinking of ripping it out and installing the (better) radio i got with USB and Aux inputs for not much more. and then i can use my portable Dixons CD/MP3 player with read-ahead. (...or.. minidisc?) ... mind you, that thing is a mobile dustbin. or a 'poubelle'.

i'm actually getting frustrated with finding good things on youtube and then not having them in a material collection/library - i don't mind digital files, but the ephemeral nature of algorithm suggestions is neither reliable nor very useful. not to mention all the dross up there. bloody cheek to make you sit through TWO ads.

I had a ton of apps for doing that stuff for different models. It's that long since I've done them I've forgot the ins and outs exactly .. Perhaps match serial it'll give you the number (app generates the code) .. Different methods for different makes. You don't need to pay Peugeot. Hit a few forums.

I don't mean iPhone apps... Like old dos/windows apps programs.. Nor available on googleappstore ect old school apps

No need for a jtag or anything just a serial on the radio most the time.

What you should do, make a Youtube short or tiktok, where you explain the matter briefly and smash the CD player with a large hammer.
Dont forget to mention Peugeuot in the title and the video all the time.
This sort of practice needs counter action.
There is zero technical reason for that issue, and there are people engineering stuff like that, and those people and such companies need to know we spit on their graves.
We cant allow them to treat us like that.

No, i hate all this new BS. Solutions like usb, bluetooth, wifi ect... cd is the ultimate universal music medium

well, in my old Transit van, it was cool to stick a pendrive in the car radio. lol i'm not talking about GPS - but i know where you're coming from. one oldie i know watches movies on the motorway, as he's driving, it's a bit sick. they love their tech, they do.

Convenience wins over always, man is a lazy race.

I use every available medium to hear music, but yes, CD (DDD) are the pinacle of audio media.
I got the JMS CDs of his two Electronica albums and the CD version sounds much better than any streamed one. 192k MP3 played directly from an Apple iPod "Walkman" are nearly as good.

Yeah.. i miss those times when you went to the the "underground" cd store and looked for new cd's... well, those days are gone, even if there where cd stores, people stopped making good music by the early 2000's anyway...

That just means that discogs.com CD marketplace is the place for you now. Pre 2010s music can be found on the cheap there

What they keep telling me is there is loads of great music to be found only online...

I never look for new music, god knows i tried. Now i look for old music at discogs only, and im so happy everytime i find a cd from the 90's thats still in its original foil, brand new, amazing.

this needs another polymer-based ROM format - if we can call CDROM/DVD that. but those require a moving-parts device, and it's optical. anything else requires silicon. microSD cards are cheap now, many-Gig, tiny, how many wavs or mp3 or flac can you fit on that, a lot with 32GB.

it's the player device, if you don't want to use your phone. and that needs a decent Line Out, rechargeable, USB C for power and transfer. (phones use shitloads of power... recharge every 24-48hrs? don't need that with a dedicated player unit surely)

and then distribution sites have to get it together to allow bulk downloads of curated material. loads of mixes, playlists, up there. what about 'charts'? does bandcamp have charts and playlists, per (genre, eek)? i would actively go to that if it existed for various forms of techno/electro/industrial etc.

and buy your music by the kilo (or gig). i used to filecrawl in internet cafes with soulseek: dump a couple of gig on their hard drive, as 'shared files', click on a load of stuff i was interested in, do my internet stuff, collect my harvest in that time using their decent connection, pull out the pendrive and see what i had when i got home. primitive (and i was paying the internet caff 1eu/hr, cheap entertainment in a boring place) but productive. it was a fun way to search for interesting audio. (and i'd collect a gig of freeware VSTi's, shared sample collections, etc. in the process)

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