First play of Vinyl in over 20yrs

[Mothman]

Well tonight I finally got my arse into gear and got a turntable set up after more than 20 yrs. Why the hell didn't I do this sooner I had forgotten how good vinyl sounds :doh:

It's only a humble Pioneer PL-112D which I acquired at a car boot sale 3 yrs ago for peanuts but hadn't done anything with as I was given the impression that they were pants, but hey this thing doesn't sound half bad.

Now just have to track down all those LP's I gave away :eyebrows:

[The Barbarian]

I had a break from records a good few years back, when revisiting i wondered why the hell i packed in with them.. Same with stereos, years of so called upgrades to revisit my original system to find i got it all right in the first place..

[Tarzan]

Well tonight I finally got my arse into gear and got a turntable set up after more than 20 yrs. Why the hell didn't I do this sooner I had forgotten how good vinyl sounds :doh:

It's only a humble Pioneer PL-112D which I acquired at a car boot sale 3 yrs ago for peanuts but hadn't done anything with as I was given the impression that they were pants, but hey this thing doesn't sound half bad.

Now just have to track down all those LP's I gave away :eyebrows:


Welcome back- there is nothing as musically satisfying as the old black stuff.:cool::)

[Ali Tait]

Welcome back from another recent returnee.

[Andrei]

I got back into vinyl a couple of years ago. Shortly after CD arrived I sold, gave away, and threw away all my LPs - I had a collection of over 700. Vinyl is certainly a lot of fun.

[walpurgis]

What cartridge are you using Rich. That Pioneer arm will work well with a Denon DL-110 or DL-160 HO MC and give you a respectable sound.

The DL-160 is very quiet on surface noise by the way. If your vinyl is not in the best of condition, it makes a big difference.

[Mothman]

Certainly looking forward to exploring vinyl again, lucky I kept hold of a few LP's and didn't give them all away. Don't have a clue how to set a deck up properly though as not something I've ever done before. When I was young I just plugged it in and chucked on an LP, time to do some reading up me thinks :)

[walpurgis]

It's pretty easy. You may even still be able to download the original Pioneer manual for the turntable. Otherwise there's loads of info on the net anyway or somebody here can advise once you start setting up.

[Mothman]

What cartridge are you using Rich. That Pioneer arm will work well with a Denon DL-110 or DL-160 HO MC and give you a respectable sound.

Just looked Geoff and it's a Shure M75ED (type 2). Sounds OK to my ears, but I guess it's the original cartridge and so may be overdue for a new stylus. The deck didn't have a drive belt or mat when I got it so I've just fitted a cheap belt off fleabay and added a felt mat. I originally posted about it in the below thread, which unfortunately seemed to descend into a Rega v Pioneer argument.

http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?10431-Pioneer-PL-112D&highlight=pl-112d

[Roy S]

PM me your e-mail addy Rich and I'll send PDFs of the instruction & service manual.

[walpurgis]

Well there you go. Isn't AOS great!

[The Barbarian]

Rich:
A Shure 'M95' cartridge can be picked up cheap, Ed Saunders styli are about £30.. Ive always rated these cartridges so much i use one myself..

[Gazjam]

I hear ya...

Just bought a record player, been buying 2nd hand vinyl like nobodies business...great fun!
Regret making the classic mistake of selling my record collection when I was a skint Student.
"Its alright, I'll get them all back on CD eventually" he says.... :mental:

[Roy S]

Kept all my records

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[Gazjam]

Sod. :)

[paskinn]

I used a Pioneer 12D with Shure 75 as a student in the 1970s; ridiculously good, and probably the first excellent deck which 'ordinary' people (ie students on a grant) could buy at Comet.
Analogue has never been surpassed; which is rather unexpected, but it's true (to my ears anyway).

''Students on a grant''.....how dreadfully younger people have been treated. Forced to pay for a degree, which at the same time has been heavily devalued. How did our society manage to get worse, rather than better? Sad, and they have to put-up with heavily degraded sound quality too.

[tpbholm]

The Pioneer 112D was my first TT when a student in the 70"s (I think). It was an excellent piece of kit. I've had a number of TT's since before finally getting an LP12 which I love. For me nothing has ever come close to sound of vinyl.
I kept all my vinyl over the years, even though I bought quite a lot of it on CD. The recent surge of vinyl releases and re-releases has been great to see and more often than not I opt for the vinyl rather than the CD / download. Quite a few releases now come with the CD as part of the package or with a download card which I think is a brilliant idea, especially if, like me, your vinyl system is in a different room from the household hifi.
There are also some superb box set re-releases of classic albums which come with both vinyl and CD and include specially produced books and / or memorabilia. The best of these has to be the new super deluxe releases of Led Zeppelin 1, 11, and 111. These are expensive but nothing I've seen comes close to the opulent packaging and superb sound quality achieved by Jimmy Page. These sets also come with an HD download card for all the music in the set.

[Gordon Steadman]

I have a PL112D in one of the bedroom systems. There are some subtleties that it loses to the expensive decks but the basic sound is terrific. Mine has the Shure M75ED in an SME headshell.

I still use it regularly to digitise vinyl for friends and they have all said how good the music sounds compared with the CDs they have.

[Mothman]

Rich:
A Shure 'M95' cartridge can be picked up cheap, Ed Saunders styli are about £30.. Ive always rated these cartridges so much i use one myself.. Thanks Andre I will investigate getting a new stylus further


PM me your e-mail addy Rich and I'll send PDFs of the instruction & service manual.

Roy, thank you for the very kind offer but I have just checked and I seem to have the manuals on file. I must have downloaded them from somewhere when I first got the deck but can't remember where from :scratch:

Good to see that there's still some love for these old budget decks :)

[The Barbarian]

Thanks Andre I will investigate getting a new stylus further



http://www.edsaunders.com/shurestylus.htm