Time-warp pricing

lp12 lol

utter joke nowadays .

my first goldring 1042 was 69 quid in 1986

last one i bought it was 300 quid..

what about tv's westie...my first flat screen plasma was 2.5k in 2004 for a 42 inch lol..you know they were 15k in 1998..thats insane.
here circa 2007 they had a 75 inch tv in the store for 40k lol..they sold it ffs..that tv now can be bought for 1k

in the end you'll be able to get 100 inch 8k ultra thin tv's for about 45 quid

Tellys are one thing that’s gotten immensely better and also way cheaper. Good shout on that one.

How about phone calls? When I started in the cellphone game it was 50p a minute off peak and a quid a minute peak rate. No per second billing, if you ran over a minute by 1 second that was another quid.

Cartridges are odd and the AT95e and I suspect the AT91/Carbon (the Carbon has a posher badge on the front, but don't know if it's any different) are now Chinese made I understand (the 95E certainly is). These are definitely an exception. The once well priced Shure 97XE has now departed, or will very shortly.

This industry is contracting still apparently. Ortofon started the price rises I feel with the 2M models - higher than the preceding 500mk2 and OM Super models I believe) which have remained static as everyone else has gone up to mach them. nagaokas are the biggest rip-off imo, the MP11 now the MP110 at £139 or so when it used to be £17 and similar price to the cheap AT's i seem to recall. Dynavector have gone bananas too. In my day, the 10X IV was the same price as the DL110 and similar performance. Now, it's £499 when the DL110 is well under two hundred quid (itself double the price or higher than it was in the late noughties before the 'crash.'

ones i tried were shite .

Have you liked any MMs Rudi? I can’t say I’ve been entirely happy with one. They can be decent enough but when you’ve had a good MC they seem to lack treble extension and fine detail.

I must say, Rega haven’t done too badly with their decks. On 1987 I remember Planar 2 being £188. The 3 these days is a better deck by all accounts and both are still very affordable, plus you have the 1 which lets lots of people spin vinyl cheaply.

NVA P20/A20 starter kit isn’t directly traceable back to the 80s but the P50/A40 were £350 I recall. You did get a phono stage then, but nowadays you get cables included and it’s £50 cheaper today.

Linn K20 was only a fiver a metre last time I looked. Probably the only bargain you will find from them though.

planer 3 is an awesome deck if positioned right..and no lid on playback..nice deck..had 3 of em and loved them..had a rega elys 2 on one of them..was pretty good but still spitty and distorted to me

nice strong cartridge aswell...even on full tracking weight the armature never dropped much..many carts u run on full weight they just sag almost to the body lol

1042 was good there.

linn arkiv lol...pos needle ffs..2k that was in 1992 lol..i got it with the lp12 ..
was all given a health check by doug bradey so it was perfect.

k18 was better with ittok..good combo the ittok k18..

you know my fav set up lp12 was..valhalla lvx plus k18..all went pear shaped after i started reading mags and the upgrade path...

I never tried that but I know Max Townshend was a fan so I’d expect it to be good. greatest curiosity is with unipivots, onlynhad one, the Mayware Formula IV but it left me wanting more. They do everything wrong, have far less dynamics and punch, yet they just sound so free and “right”. Also make MMs sound better too.

My only remaining decent deck is a PS-6750 and so my chances of dabbling with arms will depend on whether I buy another deck. The Sony is great sounding and a pleasure to use. Nothing to tinker with though and dull as ditchwater to look at.

tbh i think vinyl has had it's day
few years back i did a back to back test against flac files with my gyro

flac wiped the floor with it...cant even be bothered to make a pooter system nowadays..lost all interest in audio now...all my listening is done on you tube anyway..through my awesome 50 quid philips wireless headphones...50 quid and they sound amazing.
lost my passion for music aswell..and films..used to love messing with av aswell..lost all interest..nothing lasts forever..same with motorbikes. lost interest.

sold the lp12 ekos..gave up with it for 2 years...bought one direct from jon michell and loved it..i like a smooth sound westie.
then 1996 the wife left me after having it off with a different mate lol and left me with no cash so had to sell it.
then 2005 bought another one...

tbh i loved the gyro due to one main thing..it was only 500 quid back then and i could pop in for say a new armboard for like 40 quid...plus i had an iso then and jon would recalibrate it for my next needle lol..i worked around borehamwood and so was easy toown one. and was fed up paying linn prices ffs.
factory then was like something out charles dickens..just a large shed full of junk lol...

I think I’m a bit of an adrenalin junkie when it comes to sound. I must say I was impressed wiith the build and engineering of the Orbe I had. I do like the company too. They early Gyro I knew sounded thin and lifeless to me. But that was at the height of flat earth and PRaT. The odds were stacked against it I guess.

Just goes to show how different tastes can make one man’s meat another man’s poison. Worst arm I’ve ever owned was Linn Basik Plus. Biggest vinyl upgrade was when I bought and fitted an Ekos and OC9 in place on Basik Plus and K9. The increase in presence, dynamics and outright clarity still sticks with me today.

I’d still have an OC9 any day of the week. They work really well in Rega arms too, so it’s a cheap way to get a top flight sound, as long as it’s your thing of course and I know it’s not yours.