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Leo Enticknap
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From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 06-15-2008 06:13 AM
Agreed. At a rough guess, I'd speculate that the bottom of the curve would have been likely to be in the early to mid-90s. This was around the time vinyl had completely disappeared from high street record stores, prices of CD players were plummeting (I bought my first one in 1991) and the range of music on CD was expanding massively, including reissues of back catalogue material. Furthermore, people who were sticking with LPs probably had equipment they'd bought relatively recently, and therefore wouldn't have been looking to replace or upgrade.
It was in the mid '90s that I noticed that you could buy very good quality second-hand records for virtually nothing - as low as 50p a disc in some cases. Most of the LPs in my collection were bought between around 1995 and 2003. I'm not sure how turntable sales were doing then, as I was using a Goldring Lenco GL78 I inherited all through the '90s until two years ago, when a gas man who was replacing a pipe in my flat accidentally stepped on it. He managed to bend the tonearm to around 45 degrees and crush the motor housing, so it really wasn't worth trying to restore. The need for 78rpm capability and easily interchangable cartridges seriously limited my options for replacing it when the insurance money came through. I couldn't find a decent Lenco around anywhere, and so I eventually went for a Vestax BDT-2500. Being designed for DJs rather than home users I wondered how it would deal with the classical and jazz LPs I tend to prefer, but I was actually very pleased with it. The cartridge they throw in has a surprisingly good HF response for an entry level job, too, and replacement styli are cheap and easy to get hold of.
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Stephen Furley
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From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
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posted 06-15-2008 01:29 PM
It's not the only old technology to be making a comeback. The little Adana 8x5 inch plattern printing press has been out of production for some years. Adana was bought, I think by Caslon, and they actually considered re-starting production, but found that he cost of new castings was prohibitive. However, they have assembled a number of new machines from spare parts which were still in stock, and have also been refurbishing used machines, down to sand-blasting the castings, and re-building from that point up. Secondhand machines have also been fetching good prices on Ebay. One of our graphic design students recently bought one, and was recommended to come to me to learn how to compose type and make up a forme. I haven't done a great deal of letterpress printing, and what I have done was getting on for thirty years ago, but it seems that I've done more than anybody else still around has.
Not only has traditional photography not died out, but the older 'Alternative processes' are making something of a comeback. There are a number of shops in London which sell materials for some of the processes, and courses in wet-plate photography, invented in 1851, just about died out by the late 1880s, are fully booked.
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Leo Enticknap
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posted 06-15-2008 03:23 PM
quote: Charles Greenlee
ooh, that's too rich for my blood.
The only reason it wasn't for mine was because the trashed Lenco was a model that isn't being made any more. So, after doing a bit of Googling, I made a case to the insurance company for the Vestax being the only model in current production which has the multi-speed and standard headshell mount capabilities of the GL78, not really thinking that I'd get away with it. But they coughed up. The one thing I did manage to salvage from the Lenco was the Goldring G800 cartridge. It's got a kind of softer sound with more emphasis on the mid-range. It's kinder to records with slight wear and scratching, but doesn't have anything like the HF response of the Vestax cartridge that came with the turntable, or the slightly better Audio-Technica I'd previously used with the Lenco. The Goldring cartridge is perfect for listening to 1950s mono LPs, though.
quote: Stephen Furley
Not only has traditional photography not died out, but the older 'Alternative processes' are making something of a comeback. There are a number of shops in London which sell materials for some of the processes, and courses in wet-plate photography, invented in 1851, just about died out by the late 1880s, are fully booked.
Please let this philosophy extend to film productions before too long, so that we can start teaching our students how to make real films rather than just Mini DV!
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