I have been record hunting today

[camcroft]

 

[Gray]

You're the one smoking?

 

[Al ears]

You're the one smoking?

No, that's the well dodgey dealer....

 

[camcroft]

You're the one smoking?

No it's not me I only smoke after sex.

 

[Friesiansam]

No it's not me I only smoke after sex.

How long ago did you stop smoking?

 

[nopiano]

I remember a cardboard box full of 10” 78s as a lad. My parents had quite a few. They’ve got a lot to do with my abiding love of records and music, I suspect.

 

[Gray]

I remember a cardboard box full of 10” 78s as a lad. My parents had quite a few. They’ve got a lot to do with my abiding love of records and music, I suspect.

You've made me dig out my family toy.
Pre-Technics direct drive, variable speed.
From the time when a stylus really was a needle (not sure why we needed so many - when it was really only the records that wore out):

 

[nopiano]

Wow! I think steel needles didn’t last very long at all, but I guess they were better than ‘thorn’ needles, was it?

An aunt had something like that, but my parents had a trendy Acos ceramic with presumably sapphire tipped turnover stylus!

 

[giocap]

How long ago did you stop smoking?

Smackd

You've made me dig out my family toy.
Pre-Technics direct drive, variable speed.
From the time when a stylus really was a needle (not sure why we needed so many - when it was really only the records that wore out):
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I feel pain for the records.
Am i exaggerating or did these systems really damage the media?

 

[Gray]

Smackd

I feel pain for the records.
Am i exaggerating or did these systems really damage the media?

If you could feel the tracking weight of the needle.....no exaggeration 😱

(I'll weigh it one day - could be talking half a kg rather than a couple of g 😕)

 

[camcroft]

How long ago did you stop smoking?

In reality 22 years ago.