The Listener's Page

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...

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 o...