The Listener's Page

I was just sitting here listening to my media library through my stereo.  I was thinking that the major benefit would appear to most people to be the sound overall.  I believe the benefit is portability along with the absence of skips and pops when listening.  I love analog, don't get me wrong, but if I am going to crank the system way up and listen loudly, I usually will either do CD or media from a computer source.  Has anyone out there experienced these fun and exciting things that can happen during loud record playback?  The record skips from how loud you are playing and/or the vibration from the speakers made the turntable feed the vibration back through the system causing a rumbling noise when playing.  This makes very unpleasant noises come from your speakers.... The extremely loud pop or click from that speck or dust, or the occasional static discharge, or the repeated very loud clicks of a small scratch on your record while listening very loud can be quite disturbing. 

Hey everyone!  My name is Jeff and welcome to my Blog and my first Blog Post. I enjoy listening to analog recordings. I like the LP format,  I also enjoy reel to reel or open reel tapes.  However,  I also listen to digital formats too!  I am not here to debate the pros and cons of digital versus analog.  I just simply prefer analog for the experience.  The analog experience is a bit more involved than the digital one.  For one thing, when was the last time you cleaned a CD?  Looked for scratches?  Cleaned the CD Player lens?  Seems strange to be asking those questions? Well, when playing an analog format there is a ritualistic series of events that are taken to get the very best sound possible from that analog source.  Let's take a LP record.  First, it is housed in a sleeve within the outer sleeve.  The record must be removed very carefully to prevent adding scratches or fingerprints to the surface.  Then it must be placed onto the spindle on the turntable.  Ready to play yet?