… every link in your browser favorites is either an audio related blog, company or retailer.
Guilty as charged.
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Good one!
Just aliens seeking help from audiophiles
to make these sound like music…
Trying to figure out where they wrong…
As they were trying to replicate planar or exstats…
I have found that women are happy just to hear. Audiophiles prefer to listen. Separate experiences, but equally valid.
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How true this is in my case. My wife will say to me “why don’t you put on some music?” I say “what would you like to hear?” Her answer is invariably “anything.”
… you think Michael Fremer should get the Nobel Prize for Literature. (I’m sure he’s a nice guy, after all he’s OTF)
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Been there. Anything = Mozart
…if your current system cost more than the house you were raised in.
(Actually not that much of a stretch if you’re over 50.)
Remember? The house that had the hinged top console “HiFi” stereo with the horizontal radio tuner, 8-track, one record spinning and eleven more hovered precariously above, patiently waiting for their turn to plummet in to place at the automatic slide of the spindle key? You remember that sound of mechanical clunking wizardry as the next selection dropped down and spun up to speed whilst using the poor album beneath to gain traction? That’s vinyl groove grindulating gription baby! It’s kinda like the tires of the car as it drives off the ramp of the moving semi-truck stunt. And probably as damaging.
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I really need to spend time in thrift stores and find one of these old consoles to repurpose. They were just beautiful objects.
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The latest addition to the vintage collection. Gorgeous piece. Hey, I have a buddy who collects Axes… 
Everybody’s got something…
Would not the raised outer edge of the albums protect them from groove to groove contact when stacked?
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We didn’t have a console stereo but I had this in my room which I shared with my youngest brother. It was from Montgomery Ward. I used to place the speakers beside my head on the bed late at night so I could listen without bothering anyone. Near-field headphones!
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Perhaps, but where’s the comedy in that…?
By the 10th or 11th record the tone arm is on a 13% incline… 
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I had a green “portable” record player that dad got from the flea market. It had speakers on the sides that would either pivot out or separate from the main body. I wish I’d kept it.
I do love records designed for the automatic players. i.e. side 1 and 3 on the same record and 2 and 4 so you could stack them and listen without having to get up. My “Jesus Christ Superstar” is like that.
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Check out the equalizer - a piece of red string on dial controlled buttons move up & down and show the EQ curve - ingenious simplicity!
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Actually it was the label center of the lp that was supposed to
keep the record playing surfaces off of each other…at the time
being curious about I would look at 2 lps on the tt table
and the it appeared that both record label areas indeed were
elevated just enough to accomplish this…
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That actually would occur but not at the 13% incline but still
awkwardly angled…
It seems this radio could be Telefunken, Grundig or Siemens
any idea which it might be?