08-06-2011, 08:01 PM
The bass on Lost! on Viva La Vida is great, makes the whole house shake! Also got their Parachutes album and A Rush Of Blood To The Head although that's a bit warped.
Before you get any vinyl like that though you need to get a decent Hi-Fi record deck and amplifier. I used to have a 1970s music centre with a cheap cartridge that ruined a lot of vinyl. To listen to vinyl and keep it in superb condition and to hear it at it's best it costs a ridiculous amount. A CD will sound similar on a cheap player as it will on an expensive one, a cheap turntable will sound terrible however.
The sum parts of my turntable come to over £300, it's the most expensive thing I own next to the record collection and the amplifier! You can spend well over £20,000 on a turntable...
So long as you get the tracking weight and cartridge alignment correct there shouldn't be too many problems. That's what annoys me about people who buy old Dansettes and then ruin modern records on them. Modern records are designed to be played with tonearms with a tracking weight of about 1.5g, old Dansettes etc can sometimes track up to 10g!
Before you get any vinyl like that though you need to get a decent Hi-Fi record deck and amplifier. I used to have a 1970s music centre with a cheap cartridge that ruined a lot of vinyl. To listen to vinyl and keep it in superb condition and to hear it at it's best it costs a ridiculous amount. A CD will sound similar on a cheap player as it will on an expensive one, a cheap turntable will sound terrible however.
The sum parts of my turntable come to over £300, it's the most expensive thing I own next to the record collection and the amplifier! You can spend well over £20,000 on a turntable...
So long as you get the tracking weight and cartridge alignment correct there shouldn't be too many problems. That's what annoys me about people who buy old Dansettes and then ruin modern records on them. Modern records are designed to be played with tonearms with a tracking weight of about 1.5g, old Dansettes etc can sometimes track up to 10g!
