dangerben

sort of finished. little bits to recolour but 99.9% done and glad I dont have to get the inside of my elbow tattooed again. that hurt like nothing else. might have overdone the amount of photos...

just got this to show my appreciation to Tom and Hobbledehoy records.

this tour is going to fucking rule

just gotta say - love collecting records, love the sound of them, love the "thrill" of finding hard to find records, but god damn I hate 2-3 month pre-orders. shit is far from cash. ...But I still pre-ordered. You are a cruel mistress, internet pre-orders. cruel but so, so fine.

old picture - lots more done now but haven't taken a photo in months. most of my arm has been worked on by Kate @ Sanitary Electric in Springvale VIC. I'll post a picture of my full arm later tonight when I get home.

This really did come out of left field. I'd get this if I didn't already have a copy. anything David Bazan does is always amazing!

record players that have USB functionality as a general rule are shitty record players. its not because of the USB output, its just that they skimp on the overall quality of the table because their target audience doesn't really know or care that its a bad table, not to mention that the USB output is just generally a bad output quality. it'd be infinitely better to just run audio inputs (after the phono stage of course) straight into your sound card line-in. TL;DR - its a tacky add-on to try and tempt you to buy a generally shitty product. cut out the USB shit and focus on a better tone arm or a better platter or just better anything... catch my drift?

You can save yourself about $100 straight off the bat by looking for a reciever/amp/whatever you want to call it that has a built in phono stage. If you are buying the whole thing to listen to records it would be silly to not buy hardware that supported turn tables. as for brands to keep an eye out for - i'd look at anything by cambridge, marantz, yamaha etc... go for a well known brand and you should hope that you will get a good product... i have a yamaha as-500 which has a fairly nice phono stage cooked right into it. If you stumble across the as300/500/700 I really suggest trying it out. such a nice sounding amp and the 500 and up have a pure direct option that just pipes the turntables sound straight to the speakers... beautiful!

Haven't heard anything myself - but cannot wait. the last two have absolutely killed it

just get yourself one of these http://www.project-audio.com/main.php?prod=speedbox&cat=boxes〈=en that will end any issues you have with changing the belt around. regarding the anti-skate slipping - i have the xpression iii and have not had any issues at all... if its a constant problem for you, you could try taping it down to the tone arm or gluing it into place... all totally stupid but worth giving a go if it saves further headaches...

oh I will be buying the hell out of these. I love the brown transparent colour, but think i will go with both black copies. not too big a fan of colour vinyl. I had a copy of fallow a few years back but a flat mate stole it while he was moving out. gutted

god... clothing brands making record "players"???? they claim you can use that table while mounted on a wall.... i really hope people don't think that is a smart thing to do... my suggestion to everyone who asks whether these cheap and very clearly nasty tables are worth buying is to just save up a little more and buy an actual turntable created and built by a respected audio company. end of the day its your call whether you want your record collection getting eaten up all because something was cheap.... or has USB *shudders*

I have the Pro-Ject Xpression III classic which is a model or two above the debut but I have nothing but good things to say about my experiences with the brand. Have heard a few Debuts as well and they sound great. Chuck an ortofon red or blue 2m cart on it and you will have a solid table that will last you a long time

they do come with covers. its detatchable. they recommend you take the cover off during playback as it can cause some unwanted vibration and resonance that can affect overall playback.

it took quite a few months of solid compression of the records before i was comfortable even trying to play mine. but i really love the packaging it came in.

thats amazing

I lost the cover of my bright eyes box set at a bright eyes concert in 2004. tragic.

Have noticed an alarmingly high increase in bands re releasing their back catalogs in really nice box sets and figured we could post photos of our favorites in here. I just scored this gem on ebay - its old(ish) but being such a huge nada surf fan its seriously one of the greatest things in my collection. I've also got the sigur ros box set, but was really disappointed when it arrived shrink wrapped so tightly that all the records warped...

not a variant collector at all but here is my david bazan / pedro the lion collection so far. decided to not go after the 7" singles except for the short story combo... sorry about the shitty photo

you can buy it from the nada surf website - not this cheap, but its definitely available (I bought myself a copy just a few weeks ago)

Probably because vinyl production costs over here are ridiculous. Not to mention shipping costs and import / export taxes. Living on an island sucks hard.

having no luck on ebay. have only seen it once and missed the chance to bid by a few minutes. if you have it and are willing to sell i will pay premium for this!

this isnt fair at all. i dont want to be this broke *ordered*

also just an FYI, i just (within the last month) won a copy of achillies heel on ebay for 60ish dollars. $1400 my ass.

i'd pay $100 for the whole EP if anyone is interested... pm me - i have everything except control and this - id also spend a good amount of cash for control if anyone wants to help me out???