The Listener's Page

I do!   Right now I have two turntables; neither are glorious, but both work very well for me.  I am a budget audiophile, not someone with tons of money laying around to buy gear.  I have 12 headshells with cartridges mounted and currently in service.  None of these cartridges that I currently have cost anything close to $100.  I have maybe 10 cartridges that are not mounted that I will swap in and out when I feel like listening to something different, or the need arises.  Why different needles?  Well, each model and brand of needle sounds just a little bit different.  Some are bright, which means they have lots of treble, lots of high-frequency music; some are a little less bright and have more bass response, which is the boom in music.  A few are sweetly in the center and go with the flow, some cost hundreds or thousands of dollars.  Others are special needles for special types of records.  I have a 78 Cartridge, specially...

In past years I have heard about Record Store Day the day or week after.  This year I decided that I would not miss out on record store day again!  So I got up at the crack of dawn, well, um OK 8am, then I headed right out, after several cups of coffee and having some breakfast about an hour later, LOL!  I got my daughter all packed up and headed out to Dearborn Music, in Dearborn, MI to see what they had to offer for RSD. My daughter also brought some money in hopes of scoring some cool music herself.  We easily found a parking place and I was glad to see that the lot was pretty packed but parking was available.  As we entered we saw the checkout line, it stretched across the store!  They had enough people at the registers that we noticed that there was swift movement at checkout.  So we started walking around, dodging people left and right and looking for someone who worked there as I knew exactly what I was hoping to score.  I found someone wi...