Good point.  I got divorced.  No debt, but a massive drain on my savings.  
 
Now if I could only find chicks to impress with my stereo.  It used to work in the 70s.

smallstonefan
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Just wanted to say I've upgraded my cartridge/stylus and still buying lots of vinyl...  
 
LOVING IT! :)

If you get a chance, try to listen to something like a Tangerine Dream, or Klaus Schulze in those turntables ... they are incredible and sound even better than most CD's, although I think that the margin of difference is getting so thin these days ... 
 
I'm in the process of getting rid of most of my LP's, of which I still have over 1K of them, mostly imports and foreign stuff that is hard to get and not available. If I can find the CD for it, the LP is gone. All in all, they were lovely, but the weight has been very tough on me, without a house that I own and such. And moving those things is hard, and the poor LP's ended up getting some smudges and all that.
 
Btw, get the plastic sleeves for all LP's ... you can buy those sleeves by the hundred's and they are great at preventing the cardboard from getting moisture and then drying out and in time, getting brown as if they were dirty. The plastic helps keep moisture out of the albums as well.
 

FYI - Rubycon will be VERY different than some of their other material that came later.  Lots of really good synth music to do acid to!  Phaedra is simliar.
 
My favorites are Melrose, Exit, Lily on the Beach, Goblin's Club, Optical Race, Rockoon and, probably, a few dozen others.  The Dream Mixes are very cool too.  There's "only" about 180 albums to choose from so, over 40 years worth of variety to choose from.  Heh...

Thanks Craig - I just did a google search and checked Amazon ratings to choose - I should have asked here first! :)
 
I'll check this out when I get it and perhaps order another from your list...
 
Jeff - I'm not familiar with those artists but I will look into them! I also wish I knew the quality of the RIAA equalizer in my turntable - and that's assuming it has one!

smallstonefan
Thanks for the suggestion! I just ordered Rubycon. I've heard of, but never heard this band.
 
Looking forward to it! :)

You want Phaedra and then Stratosfear.
 
After that, go through the tube and make your choices. Too good to fail!

craigb
FYI - Rubycon will be VERY different than some of their other material that came later.  Lots of really good synth music to do acid to!  Phaedra is similar.
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TD has several stages, and there is the real early one (Atem, Phaedra and Rubycon), then the next one (Stratosfear, Force Majeure, USA, Ricochet) and then the next stage that Craig mentions, and then the 90's with Linda Spa and Jerome of which "220 Volt Live" is an amazing concert, and then the stage after 2010 when they start redoing some old stuff ... and the Phaedra redo in 2014 and Supernormal, are both incredible, as are Booster 6 and 7 ... for example.
 
But, for me, the very best was Robert Schroeder's first album on the IC label, which was Klaus Schulze's label. The album "Floating Music" could be played in both 33RPM and 45 RPM, and what you get is an amazing thing ... a wonderful piece of music at 45RPM, and then a really heavy teutonic hard sound on 33RPM that was even better than the faster version. The only thing missing were the fantastic long distance stage sets for the early German operas of the 20th century, the setting designs of which are legendary ... simple, some columns and amazing lights. And a voice coming out of the middle of it out of "nowhere". This, became one of the huge influences in Werner Herzog, later when it came to lights, specially in his Nosferatu version, which even includes visuals for our delectation, even though he had already done psychedelic stuff with Amon Duul 2's Phallus Dei, which was one of his first films. Apparently he was a part of that commune, and he never really lost his free form stuff, from the camera to the actors, as evidenced by Klaus Kinski more than once and many films, when things just go all over the place.
 
But some LP's are worth having for the turntable. The Cosmic Courier albums (Cosmic Joke specially) sound really well and pretty in its simplicity, and just a bass guitar floating. Ash Ra Temple's New Age of Earth is a must get for the turntable. One of the first "new age" albums all around. CAN's Ege Bamyasi shold also be here, but their Future Days, and specially Soon Over Babbalooma, are even more valuable as the long cuts go from frenetic to slow to a simple touch for a transition ... that just melts away musical thoughts. And my two favorite albums to blow out on the turntable, because the CD's sucked rotten, will always be Amon Duul 2's Wolf City (full blast that thing ... and the album's later releases have the sides reversed ... should start with the title cut!) and then Vive La Trance, as the 2 big cuts are a massive treat for your ears! The CD versions are nice, but the  separation is not there and I have not heard the remastered versions yet, but I doubt they will be better than the original.
 
Other things that were great ... Jethro Tull's Passion Play. Yes' Tales from Topographic Oceans. Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene.
 
In general, most of the regular rock stuff was never really improved, but the more experimental stuff and different from the regular top ten, had way more life and beauty in it, than otherwise, and it made them super special.
 
None of the CD versions of this, came close in quality, and the worst offenders (even remastered) were Sgt Peppers, White Album, DSOTM. The Steven Wilson remixes are not that great, and I personally thought that his attempt to do ITCOTCK made it look like the band was not together at all, and when you see it in the Live in Toronto 2015 with the 3 drummers, you know right away that was not the case ... RF's work is (generally) really tight and together!
 
 

smallstonefan

BobF
Cool toy, James. 
 
Last year I got stone tablets with a hammer and chisel.

How is that working out for ya? Post pics! :)

I'm still practicing.  I think I need to take lessons

smallstonefan

BobF

smallstonefan

BobF
Cool toy, James. 
 
Last year I got stone tablets with a hammer and chisel.

How is that working out for ya? Post pics! :)

I'm still practicing.  I think I need to take lessons

I think Groove3 has a video for that...

I checked.  No joy.  My sub is up in 5 days.  I would've renewed ...

Wow.
 
Rubycon + Green Stuff = Really Good Time
 
thanks.
 
:)

In my new studio/office, I have set up my old JVC variable speed turntable with my stereo system. The floor is concrete so I can crank it up without shaking the needle out of the groove. I had forgotten how good black vinyl  sounded. Started off with some Stix and ELO's Out of the Blue.

ELP's 'Lucky Man' and 'Take A Pebble' were my goto stereo test tunes back in the day
 
 
EDITED to correct typo

BobF
ELO's 'Lucky Man' and 'Take A Pebble' were my goto stereo test tunes back in the day

I was more thinking that you would want ELP's first album for its bombastic works. It really brought the turntable up to another level.
 
Again, however, a lot of European bands, did much more interesting things for the LP and its abilities. I was just listening to Family in their last period and specially "It's Only a Movie" ... and there are some spectacular things in there. Along with this, one should also have The Groundhogs' Crosscut Saw (for his unreal use of guitar effects to the max ... and how!!!!) and then "Black Diamond" ... and when you hear "Live Right" ... you will know you have been ground hogged! Super fine material that sounds even better on a great stereo and turntable.
 
In the early 70's Eno and some German folks were playing around with a recording technique ... head something or other ... and it was really a trip, and only "trip" albums were done with it ... so things like Faust ... sounded really far out and crazy, and when you heard Guru Guru do anything from their first 4 albums ... you know that this is crazy ... is this about sound effects on the guitar or what? But it sure sounded crazy.
 
For that matter, the first Guru Guru's albums should also be in the list. All the way to KanGuruGuru. The earlier stuff with Ax Gernrich is totally out of this world, and it is just a shame that folks don't check out his insane guitar stuff ... a true guitar player on "acid", we could easily say, but his solo albums are also insane and crazy, so you know that the feeling is consistent on his work, even from the early days. Let me just tell you that the LSD March and Cosmic Junk and some of those things sound amazing in a big stereo (or in my examples -- a big FM station even better), but I'm not sure that some folks here can handle the guitar noise ... and might think of it as not playing at all. 
 
But it sure made that "krautrock" stand out and then some! And the CD's still don't do this stuff justice, though I think that Amon Duul 2 could use a really big and professional remastering, because so much of their work is really out there. YETI should be on any turntable and then some!

I've had a concrete pier thru the floor for a telescope, but never a turntable
 

smallstonefan

BobF
Cool toy, James. 
 
Last year I got stone tablets with a hammer and chisel.

How is that working out for ya? Post pics! :)

I keep thinking that he is trying to re-invent "krautrock" ... heck if Faust can do it, so can he!