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“One Gun” - Lamb of God.
No particular reason….:bandit:
 
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Planet Caravan , Black Sabbath , 2 or 3 times a day, can't explain it...
 
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I just completed rebuilding a 50 year old belt drive turntable, and I am playing 25-80 year old LPs from my parent's collection, my inlaw's collection, and wife and my LPs from the 60's-80's. Everything from German concertos to Big Band 40's, bluegrass, country, gospel, pop, rock.

I have most of the same music as well as more current content in my digital collection on my server (and on a 256GB thumb drive in my Ranger).

The digital is lossless so the actual data rate is much greater than what an LP can produce so it should sound better, but it doesn't to my old ears. There is a warmth to the analog turntable output that isn't there on the digital versions. I am using the same 6.1 Onkyo A/V amplifier.

Or maybe it's just me. But my wife hears the difference as well.
 
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Here's a great cover. Everything is money....def got that's 70's vibe down

 

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I just completed rebuilding a 50 year old belt drive turntable, and I am playing 25-80 year old LPs from my parent's collection, my inlaw's collection, and wife and my LPs from the 60's-80's. Everything from German concertos to Big Band 40's, bluegrass, country, gospel, pop, rock.

I have most of the same music as well as more current content in my digital collection on my server (and on a 256GB thumb drive in my Ranger).

The digital is lossless so the actual data rate is much greater than what an LP can produce so it should sound better, but it doesn't to my old ears. There is a warmth to the analog turntable output that isn't there on the digital versions. I am using the same 6.1 Onkyo A/V amplifier.

Or maybe it's just me. But my wife hears to difference as well.
I'm kind of in a similar vain. Got close to a thousand tracks on my chip in the truck. Little of everything from county, jazz, rock, 70s, 80s. Haven't gotten into the classical yet, but you never know. I mostly thrift store buy and have recently started to pick up artists on LPs that never made it to CDs. I have a nice digital turntable and rip them to MP3s. Not the best format, but my old ears don't notice the difference. I get to hear things from my past that don't get played anymore.
 
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