Many moons ago (10'000 or so in fact) I owned a Michell Syncro deck with Linn Basik and A&R MC cartridge, with decent amp and speakers of the day.
In a moment of madness, around 1990, I sold all my vinyl and my Michell in favour of that new fangled CD thing. Since then, I've always had CDs, these days using a Musical Fidelity A3 CD player, an Arcam 9 amp and some Mission bookshelf speakers, however, I've never been able to recapture that indefinable quality that kept me sitting all evening listening.
This year sometime, we'll be moving house and I'll hopefully have the space to dedicate a room to music, and I feel a real need to return to vinyl to see if I can recapture that 'thing' that's missing. I don't want to pay the stupid money modern audiophile decks fetch but quite fancy a retro turntable, perhaps another Syncro (like rocking horse doo doo though) or something else that was well respected in it's day such as the Townshend Rock or a Pink Triangle - or maybe even the ever present LP12?
Any thoughts anyone?
In a moment of madness, around 1990, I sold all my vinyl and my Michell in favour of that new fangled CD thing. Since then, I've always had CDs, these days using a Musical Fidelity A3 CD player, an Arcam 9 amp and some Mission bookshelf speakers, however, I've never been able to recapture that indefinable quality that kept me sitting all evening listening.
This year sometime, we'll be moving house and I'll hopefully have the space to dedicate a room to music, and I feel a real need to return to vinyl to see if I can recapture that 'thing' that's missing. I don't want to pay the stupid money modern audiophile decks fetch but quite fancy a retro turntable, perhaps another Syncro (like rocking horse doo doo though) or something else that was well respected in it's day such as the Townshend Rock or a Pink Triangle - or maybe even the ever present LP12?
Any thoughts anyone?
