What did you do today?

[mercrocker]

I would have been particularly upset to miss that....No, just a 2.5 litre.

[paulplom]

Fb memory from 12 years ago. I fitted an mg metro engine and twin carbs. Had a full ss exhaust made and fitted too. It went quite well. I kept if for five years before swapping it for a minter mk2 mx5.

[PhilA]

Ordered a new cartridge and stylus for my record player.

[Jerzy Woking]

Cartridge? Stylus? Record player?

[LynehamHerc]

I still use my record deck, a Thorens TD160, after having it for 50+ years.

It sounds a lot better than CDs.

[mercrocker]

Unusually I have spent my day sorting out CDs......Much as I prefer vinyl at home I am not up for lugging a heavy and increasingly precious haul of 45s about, not to mention twin turntables and mixer.

Had a party booking come in at the weekend for next month with a highly specific set list request. It has certainly taxed my digital repertoire but with some judicious "file transfers" on a USB turntable I am pretty much there now.

[PhilA]

The cartridge on this one takes a stylus fitting that's increasingly hard to find these days, which is a shame because it's not a bad one and someone shelled out for a microlinear needle.

New one is coming with a regular elliptical but I can at least get shibata needles for it which will work properly with CD-4 records. I'm just hoping the new cartridge is up to the task.

Phil

[Drum]

I need a new cartridge for my beocenter but they're bloody expensive

[mercrocker]

Don't need all this hi-end stuff when playing scuffed-up rock n roll 45s! My dining room sounds are taken care of by a Regentone and a Pye Black Box (sadly plain Mahogany finish rather than the Japan-lacquer model) both of which run identical BSR gold-arm turntables. Have a Philips Disc-Jockey as well but that tends to be temperamental. There's also a pre-Dansette "Gramette" but the sound on that is lousy. I use an ION archiving job for converting to MP3 and then onto CD for going out working with. The old'uns are set on 78rpm and corresponding styli so I can reach between the two and run shellac continuously....

"Daily" spinner is a ProJect "elemental" skeleton job with circumferential belt drive, this runs a fairly mundane cart taking Ortofon 5E styli. Bare-bones and entry-level but does enable fitment into an old carcass which I have been meaning to do for about 6 years now.....I run this through a modern Cambridge amp and out into Dynatron "Regency" style cabs. The modern amp means I can push the laptop and CD mixers through it as required.

On the floor by my feet lives a portable battery-op EAR 45 player which predictably sounds a bit shit and currently one of those awful suitcase modern players the purpose of buying which has completely eluded me now but I did upgrade the stylus before ignoring it for the past year or so.

Mrs R. has a nice 1963 Decca with 4 speed BSR for her listening pleasure in the front-room.

As I say the record collection pretty much stops around 1963 and is all secondhand stuff of varying grades so you don't want high definition.....

[christine]

I never knew until yesterday, Cut across Shorty wasn't a Faces original !