What's on your favourite album list?

[Jasonovich]

I think sharing is caring, I like to know what album is on your future purchase list. I think, having sight of other people's collection, might give me and others, some purchasing idea for your next album or inspire your future choice.

Here's my selection below, what's yours? 🙂

 

[Stuart83]

Interesting and very true.
I discover music in many ways, one of the oldest ways is still to share our preferences with each other, even Spotify etc with it's AI has taken it upon itself to mirror this role of suggesting similar artists the same way we used to by word of mouth.

Its a shame the post didn't attract more replies as I am always looking for new music and have always liked to try what other hifi enthusiasts are playing and what through.

One of my first posts was-

"What's your favourite album and what's it being played through"

To find out what "albums" people were listening/planning on getting which didn't gain much traction but I will be giving your list a listen, maybe it's my next discovery of a really good band I've yet to encounter, I will post my playlist when I have more time but thanks for the share 👍

 

[Jasonovich]

Thanks Stuart for the mention, I had forgotten about that thread.
It sort of went down like a lead balloon 🤣

Funny that, there are similar threads perhaps people would rather tell us what they're playing than their album purchases.

Sometimes you get a little detached, in terms of what's new, and; people making album purchases either CD/Vinyl or downloading, sort of gives you an idea what's on the market and an opportunity to explore.

I thought this might galvanise peoples interest in the artist producing the music as opposed to audiophiles tinkering with their HiFi 🙂

 

[Al ears]

I think sharing is caring, I like to know what album is on your future purchase list. I think, having sight of other people's collection, might give me and others, some purchasing idea for your next album or inspire your future choice.

Here's my selection below, what's yours? 🙂

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I find it hard to understand why people will pay those sort of prices for DSD 512 recordings when I for one cannot hear any difference between those and a DSD 64 recording.
Personally I would rather have them on SACD disc......

 

[Jasonovich]

I find it hard to understand why people will pay those sort of prices for DSD 512 recordings when I for one cannot hear any difference between those and a DSD 64 recording.
Personally I would rather have them on SACD disc......

It's a fair point. There is a small difference in quality but possibly not worth paying the extra £9 for DSD512 to NativeDSD. Physical format is always better but still, you can download DSD64 album for about £16 or even less, which isn't bad.

It would be nice if the main label companies is able to produce DSD64 on disk and avoid paying Sony the SACD extra fees.

 

[Stuart83]

Thanks Stuart for the mention, I had forgotten about that thread.
It sort of went down like a lead balloon 🤣

Funny that, there are similar threads perhaps people would rather tell us what they're playing than their album purchases.

Sometimes you get a little detached, in terms of what's new, and; people making album purchases either CD/Vinyl or downloading, sort of gives you an idea what's on the market and an opportunity to explore.

I thought this might galvanise peoples interest in the artist producing the music as opposed to audiophiles tinkering with their HiFi 🙂

Yeah strange as the one commonality everybody on here has is music.
I know there's a "track of the day" thread but it's not album specific especially now streaming has changed listening habits for better/worse , some only ever playing one track and never knowing from what album it belongs and even as some have said to me never listened to anything else by the same artist.

I'm guilty of FF through a platforms suggestions to find the good stuff when in a rush but going back to find the album it originated from (or ended up on) is how I discover good artists and their albums I'd of missed otherwise, as I have said before I prefer physical media for a plethora of reasons one being the obvious collection side and mainly catalogue things to then purchase on CD, like "The Lumineers" who I've recently discovered in such a way collecting their albums is a joy.

I discovered another band I've taken a liking to a completely different way by doing what we all did in yrs gone by and simply took a punt on a CD although at a charity shop from a band I thought I'd heard of before to find it's very good.

Admittedly it's not as a big of a deal at the princely sum of a quid if like in yrs gone by you get home to find your memory or a suggestion was bad and the band was sh?t 😂 giving you a complete CD of regret to never play.

I suppose your post was useful to me so not a complete waste, always looking for that next dose of musically invoked frisson

 

[Jasonovich]

Yes it's really good to know what's on the album. It may be the one song you were particularly after, then you discovered those other hidden treasures that would have been missed, had you just downloaded the song. 🙂

 

[Rodolfo]

It's a fair point. There is a small difference in quality but possibly not worth paying the extra £9 for DSD512 to NativeDSD. Physical format is always better but still, you can download DSD64 album for about £16 or even less, which isn't bad.

It would be nice if the main label companies is able to produce DSD64 on disk and avoid paying Sony the SACD extra fees.

By the way, while there isn't a lot known about licensing fees -whether they're significant, for instance, DSD itself (developed for SACD) is also a Sony technology.

 

[Rodolfo]

I still enjoy "discovering" older releases of long-favorite artists: my most recent purchase is Cannonball Adderley's Know What I mean? --"with Bill Evans", which I had not noted early on. I also enjoy finding low-cost, like-new CDs on eebay, like this old Adderley/Orin Keepnews-produced issue.

 

[Stuart83]

The cheap CDs on ebay is why I don't want a CD revival 😂

 

[Al ears]

The cheap CDs on ebay is why I don't want a CD revival 😂

I don't know where the idea of a CD revival came from. To my mind they never went away unlike producers of vinyl did years ago...

 

[Stuart83]

I don't know where the idea of a CD revival came from. To my mind they never went away unlike producers of vinyl did years ago...

I hear you 👍
Agreed and although I thumbed up this same comment on another thread and understand your reply is in the same spirit as mine as CDs being my favourite format for a multitude of reasons have also never gone away in my house nor because of my part time wrk and hobby did records but CDs very much went obsolete via the sales data when streaming hit.

The sales figures line up with the high street stopping sales almost all together where I live,
Unfortunately a lot of music isn't released on CD at all.

Since their peak in 2002 they have been in rapid decline of 92% here depending on source and belief, it only slightly went up in sales 2021 giving off this idea of a CD revival that just didn't gather steam ,despite the counter indication via huge amounts of YouTube guessing the prices of CDs does not reflect a revival unlike the frankly rediculas prices of vinyl now.

Digressing as usual 😁
I saw a Iron maiden record, I think it was powerslave in a market stall flight case for 269 quid which is a symptom of the silliness that's it's all become.
(It was my partner's birthday so thank flip She's not into Iron Maiden)
Some of the people who value vinyl for the right reasons in my mind (to 👂) now can't access such records banishing them to rich people's collections, I know of such a gentleman who never plays his, Im not disagreeing but to me it's a shame.
I grew up with records starting to mix hardcore and house etc at 14 🤭 even using them as coasters and on heavy nights frisbees going through countless amounts of vinyl bought at the lower floor of HMV in Newcastle etc for 2.99 upwards and in bulk via various mail order catalogues and mags and amassing a loads of other types of music inline with my eclectic taste.
I even gave loads away to friends as I went into getting payed for my hobby, literally having that many there wasnt space at my then parents home (I cry inside when I see the prices of some of the records I've destroyed or gotten rid of which is most of them now) but as soon as CD became mainstream I knew immediately it was to "ME" of a much better sonic quality.

The night and day improvement going from either of my three decks to my first Philips CDP was such an instant improvement I bought CD for all music outside of djaying from that day on but with one caveat, that record remained my chosen format for me djaying as it's tactility and skilled involvement was half of the joy to me, way in excess of the cold disconnected "anybody can do it" softwares making there rounds early on, even using a BPM back then was frowned upon by the inner circles 😂 even CD decks took away too much for me.

As usual I digress as long site absences due to being over busy has me perhaps write overlong messages 😂
One thing I think is missed by many is if this vinyl resurgence lapses as admittedly many think as I do, NOT counting the true fans and people who've never left the format in the first place those 200 quid records will end up on ebay for a fiver as for many newcomers to the format it's only a novelty interest.

the hope is the same doesn't happen to CDs seeing a novelty interest in an old format as with vinyl rocket the prices up for music lovers.

 

[Jasonovich]

......... going through countless amounts of vinyl bought at the lower floor of HMV in Newcastle etc for 2.99 upwards and in bulk via various mail order catalogues and mags and amassing a loads of other types of music inline with my eclectic taste.

Howay man!
I know that store! I use to visit it almost every weekend....the little money I had as a student, I would waste it on vinyl's and CDs. The prices weren't bad, even for cash strapped student.

Four years in Newcastle, I lived on a diet of Newcastle X and fried Mars bars , curry sauce and chips.
I recall, over exaggerating my Southern accent, a bit of cockney to pick up the Geordie Girls (wasn't born anywhere near the Bow Bells!).
Sometimes I would hang out at Julies with friends, once tried to get autograph from 10cc but ran into the wall of the burly bodyguard. I wasn't keen on Tuxedo Junction, the glitz and overpriced drinks wasn't for me. I do miss the North. 🙂

 

[Jasonovich]

Diatribes with nothing to do with the question are growing to @Rui proportions. 🙂

My bad, I do that a lot! 🤣

 

[Rui]

Diatribes with nothing to do with the question are growing to @Rui proportions. 🙂

Nice

 

[Al ears]

Nice

My apologies. My attempt at a joke failed. I will delete.

 

[Stuart83]

Howay man!
I know that store! I use to visit it almost every weekend....the little money I had as a student, I would waste it on vinyl's and CDs. The prices weren't bad, even for cash strapped student.

Four years in Newcastle, I lived on a diet of Newcastle X and fried Mars bars , curry sauce and chips.
I recall, over exaggerating my Southern accent, a bit of cockney to pick up the Geordie Girls (wasn't born anywhere near the Bow Bells!).
Sometimes I would hang out at Julies with friends, once tried to get autograph from 10cc but ran into the wall of the burly bodyguard. I wasn't keen on Tuxedo Junction, the glitz and overpriced drinks wasn't for me. I do miss the North. 🙂

Small world an over used adage for a reason
😊
You take me along memory lane with battered mars bars only I was at school playing hookie to get hold of that sickly treat at the local fish shop or jumping the then pointed jail fence that surrounded our super ruff school at dinner time as school dinners on a serious note were too expensive if our parents worked.
A chip butty 60p and battered mars bar for 40p plus 20p for a carton of diluted something came to my budget of 1.20 a day when I got it 😢 Most of the time my dear old mam was that tired from back turn I wouldn't bother waking her on the morning for it.

When my old dad had down time we would repair anything that would fit through his loft hatch lmao yeah...... massive early wide screens side on with rope on a rusty nail used as a hoist to all manor of hifi as prior comments more than covered.
About then an old studio mixer turned up and two battered genexa? decks originally from Tandy's and I was hooked learning to beat match and overlap then onto sampling and effects etc.
I got hold of a knackered pair of misused sound lab decks from the local d?ck heed, after needing almost everything they improved things ten fold only keeping one genexa as a third deck
My friends would pile in my 8ft box room about 2ft from my mission 760i and then Tannoy M15's after my father had finished with them and upgraded to the mission 763i (still have them on restoring them with new drivers, so far I've opened the box the drivers come in about 3/4 months ago).
I would push my Sansui au 505 to nearly full tilt and I mean all 12w 😂 LOUD in that tiny room, I moved to a third deck by around 16 and got to flooding the local school and villages with delinquent rave tapes typically for me with the DBs all increased via the rec slave deck 🤷

For my birthday I would get around collectively 60 quid from relations and hit the coach to Newcastle's HMV (it was top dog for music) don't you know 🤣 and straight down the stairs to the seedy dim lit hardcore section of the vinyl after abusing the demo decks, getting things from Babyboom, Evolution and my favourite Twisted Vinyl filling two bags full even then it was a lot for the price so I totally agree with you there, ah HMV I miss em.

I remember the curry sauce and chips diet, sure it was maykway sauce or atleast if it wasn't and you want to reinvoke those fond memories then it's the taste to do it with.
To boost your memory if the stuff you used to get was anything like I remember let the edges of the sauce cool into wrinkles as a skin forms over the sauce 🤮

On the subject of CDs ive just got a parcel of them through Inc all of Radiohead's albums which Ive always found hit and miss and Cold
War Kids who's Robbers And Cowards album is rather good especially the track St John yet so far their other albums aren't half as good.
Guess I should of streamed through them first as I usually catalogue music to purchase on CD by listening to it first via Spotify etc but the prices were so good at 2.99.
Anyway I got round to removing the middle draw of the 7ft cabinet I modified from a charity shop as since getting a new amp etc nothing would fit on the old cabinet, since replacing the draw with a hardwood shelf sprayed black and lacquered, had to punch the back out as it was all but closed off other than a tiny pre cut hole for wires.
The Hegal is a long heavy beast so it needed a 1" overhang at the rear and due to the Marantz CD 60 having hdam it's nearly as big requiring the same which wasn't a problem giving the wall clearance needed for the speaker cables and connections.
I can relax now and give myself intergestiion with the volumes I keep hitting.

 

[Jasonovich]

Small world an over used adage for a reason
😊
You take me along memory lane with battered mars bars only I was at school playing hookie to get hold of that sickly treat at the local fish shop or jumping the then pointed jail fence that surrounded our super ruff school at dinner time as school dinners on a serious note were too expensive if our parents worked.
A chip butty 60p and battered mars bar for 40p plus 20p for a carton of diluted something came to my budget of 1.20 a day when I got it 😢 Most of the time my dear old man was that tired from back turn I wouldn't bother waking her on the morning for it.

When my old dad had down time we would repair anything that would fit through his loft hatch lmao yeah...... massive early wide screens side on with rope on a rusty nail used as a hoist to all manor of hifi as prior comments more than covered.
About then an old studio mixer turned up and two battered genexa? decks originally from Tandy's and I was hooked learning to beat match and overlap then onto sampling and effects etc.
I got hold of a knackered pair of misused sound lab decks from the local d?ck heed, after needing almost everything they improved things ten fold only keeping one genexa as a third deck
My friends would pile in my 8ft box room about 2ft from my mission 760i and then Tannoy M15's after my father had finished with them and upgraded to the mission 763i (still have them on restoring them with new drivers, so far I've opened the box the drivers come in about 3/4 months ago).
I would push my Sansui au 505 to nearly full tilt and I mean all 12w 😂 LOUD in that tiny room, I moved to a third deck by around 16 and got to flooding the local school and villages with delinquent rave tapes typically for me with the DBs all increased via the rec slave deck 🤷

For my birthday I would get around collectively 60 quid from relations and hit the coach to Newcastle's HMV (it was top dog for music) don't you know 🤣 and straight down the stairs to the seedy dim lit hardcore section of the vinyl after abusing the demo decks, getting things from Babyboom, Evolution and my favourite Twisted Vinyl filling two bags full even then it was a lot for the price so I totally agree with you there, ah HMV I miss em.

I remember the curry sauce and chips diet, sure it was maykway sauce or atleast if it wasn't and you want to reinvoke those fond memories then it's the taste to do it with.
To boost your memory if the stuff you used to get was anything like I remember let the edges of the sauce cool into wrinkles as a skin forms over the sauce 🤮

On the subject of CDs ive just got a parcel of them through Inc all of Radiohead's albums which Ive always found hit and miss and Cold
War Kids who's Robbers And Cowards album is rather good especially the track St John yet so far their other albums aren't half as good.
Guess I should of streamed through them first as I usually catalogue music to purchase on CD by listening to it first via Spotify etc but the prices were so good at [
I got round to removing the middle draw of the 7ft cabinet I modified from a charity shop replacing the draw with a hardwood shelf sprayed black and lacquered, had to punch the back out as it was all but closed off other than a tiny pre cut hole for wires.
The Hegal is a long heavy beast so it needed a 1" overhang at the rear and due to the Marantz CD 60 having hdam it's nearly as big requiring the same which wasn't a problem giving the wall clearance needed for the speaker cables and connections.
I can relax now and give myself intergestiion with the volumes I keep hitting.

Very true, overused adage and Funny where I stayed in West Jesmond, everyone had a middle class accents! Kind of like Edinburg, when I go there on short breaks, I hear Scottish people speaking with English accents everywhere!

You've mapped out your HiFi journey really well, you need to appreciate the small things and the value of everything else becomes much greater.

I was saying to my other half, when we retire we can sell up and move to Northumberland, Whitley Bay the best fish and chips man! Don't go in the sea, if you don't want to be brushing up against floating condoms. 🤣
Love North Wales that's another option but its full of scousers, I rather swim with the condoms, ha ha ha just kidding!
My boss, she's originally from Merseyside and very sweet. West Yorkshire is a possibility, definitely thinking of relocating when I hang up my spreadsheets.

Nice photo of your systems, the Hegels are nicely tucked away 🙂

 

[Gray]

...Love North Wales that's another option but its full of scousers, I rather swim with the condoms, ha ha ha just kidding!

😄

 

[Stuart83]

Very true, overused adage and Funny where I stayed in West Jesmond, everyone had a middle class accents! Kind of like Edinburg, when I go there on short breaks, I hear Scottish people speaking with English accents everywhere!

You've mapped out your HiFi journey really well, you need to appreciate the small things and the value of everything else becomes much greater.

I was saying to my other half, when we retire we can sell up and move to Northumberland, Whitley Bay the best fish and chips man! Don't go in the sea, if you don't want to be brushing up against floating condoms. 🤣
Love North Wales that's another option but its full of scousers, I rather swim with the condoms, ha ha ha just kidding!
My boss, she's originally from Merseyside and very sweet. West Yorkshire is a possibility, definitely thinking of relocating when I hang up my spreadsheets.

Nice photo of your systems, the Hegels are nicely tucked away 🙂

Thanks

The journey isn't over (as said I consider hifi a journey not a destination) the Systemdeck iiv was fully serviced and updated with a Goldring E3 cartridge then left to gather yet more dust.
Not to annoy a fan base I belong to after all but I've never found anything mythical about turntables, I've had more than I can remember both in pro djay setups (albeit with me behind them 😁) and domestic but there's a sentimental attachment with this Systemdeck being from the hifi assembly of my father's I grew up with, although I never quite forgive it for its absolutely frustrating arse on to change speeds having to take the heavy glass platter off and re-loop the belt onto the chosen speed.

Despite this it ended up being the product of the yr three yrs running here on what HIFI back in the day and then making 05th of the best turntables list in what HIFI's lifetime.
It's earned pride of place to the right of the TV which I found a little OTT to mention prior when modifying the charity shop bought cabinet I lifted the top and put flat rubber washers between the screwed joints, not needed I know especially as I have a concrete floor but I've always been one for over engineering things 🤷

Ps
I do like your way of adding an ounce/ton of truth to your humour it makes it all the more funny to someone who grew up and lives in the North E, some have come outta that broader part of the sea both itchy and pregnant, never to be clean and sometimes seen again.
Joke 😂

 

[Jasonovich]

Thanks

The journey isn't over (as said I consider hifi a journey not a destination) the Systemdeck iiv was fully serviced and updated with a Goldring E3 cartridge then left to gather yet more dust.
Not to annoy a fan base I belong to after all but I've never found anything mythical about turntables, I've had more than I can remember both in pro djay setups (albeit with me behind them 😁) and domestic but there's a sentimental attachment with this Systemdeck being from the hifi assembly of my father's I grew up with, although I never quite forgive it for its absolutely frustrating arse on to change speeds having to take the heavy glass platter off and re-loop the belt onto the chosen speed.

Despite this it ended up being the product of the yr three yrs running here on what HIFI back in the day and then making 05th of the best turntables list in what HIFI's lifetime.
It's earned pride of place to the right of the TV which I found a little OTT to mention prior when modifying the charity shop bought cabinet I lifted the top and put flat rubber washers between the screwed joints, not needed I know especially as I have a concrete floor but I've always been one for over engineering things 🤷

Ps
I do like your way of adding an ounce/ton of truth to your humour it makes it all the more funny to someone who grew up and lives in the North E, some have come outta that broader part of the sea both itchy and pregnant, never to be clean and sometimes seen again.
Joke 😂

Likewise, thanks Stuart for your kind words also.

My four years in Newcastle taught me a lot about myself.
I probably would have stayed after uni but the job situation was so dire, I had to go back home south.
I recall standing at the bus stop, this was when I was staying with a mate in Benwell.
A complete stranger struck up a conversation with me, I was mortified, in London no one says hello or make conversation with random strangers.
It taught me humility that it isn't just one rat race, we are all in the same boat.

It's quite easy to fall into cliché but it's fair to say, the warmth of the North is quality that is hard to find in the most southern parts of Britain. Mind you, people in central Lake District are like their southern brethrens, pretty snobbish. 🙂 They love the money from tourism but hate outsiders intruding on their personal space.

I think all the fuff with turntables is worth it if it's your passion.
When I had the DM Logic 101 TT, every month I had to realign platter bolts because these had a tendency to go off balance but it was worth the investment.
When the stylus skated across the centre, I knew it needed realigning. Pain!
My collection of vinyl God knows what happened to them, I had pointed the finger at my younger sibling, thinking he made off with them, he explained.
When the Polish builders gutted out my mother's garage, everything went into the skip. Gutted.

If I were to list those missing vinyl albums on my next purchase album list, it will cost me a fortune. In any case much of it, I already have on digital, except Gary Glitter ha ha 😂

 

[Stuart83]

It's "ne bother" as we say, I know what you mean about strangers staying strange in certain parts of England especially among the current climate it's makes me cry inside.

Some people 😡
I still impulsively open doors (not just) for disabled, women and the old, the amount of times I've seen people just stand by watching people struggle or younger people sit shamelessly as an old woman stands the full journey on the bus is becoming more common so is the capability of even communicating with these types.
I still help the neighbours with DIY and all sorts and can truthfully say that, admittedly last week was only putting chicken wire over an old dears plant pot so the cats didn't keep pissing in them, she offered to pay me and what surprises me is the shock in her face when it was declined, I actually get pleasure out of giving her a quick 2m of my time to see her happy, memory serving me right she gave me a raised sun lounger for the mut yrs ago 😂
We and other countries are seeing a death of culture and it's being replaced with garbage.

Not all though thank g od there's still pockets of people who still have the best in mind, here being an example although at times I dont mind saying it's hard to be open without feeling vulnerable to attack over absolutely anything.

Some people only ever looking for an opportunity to snipe at others is worrying on a deeper level, some aren't online to take pleasure in conversation but to get their kicks of out "Trolling" it's got a few people including the guy at the HIFI Sounds comment he "doesn't bother because of all the sniping and arguing" which is a trend I see increasingly, I call it the "Facebook Syndrome" the grandfather of online degeneration to many and scantly used correctly by the few.

The old DM Logic 👍 memory serving me right that also has the manual speed control practice of shifting pulleys yourself, I'm not sure however if you had to lift the platter to do this ? (It was always best to spin up the platter manually first though I'd imagine)
I absolutely agree if records/players are your passion then definitely have at it but it's a shame the novelty value has rocketed prices to rediculas levels and I'd imagine is ruining the hobby for people across the board.
Speaking of records going missing my mother took my father's large collection of all sorts including raraties a lot of them like the Iron Maiden, Guns and Roses, Metallica and Dep Leopard were supposed to come to me They would cost a fortune to replace now, she took the two tape decks aswell until my father managed to rescue the Yamaha but not the Aiwa 3 head 😭although I am bothered it's certainly for their sonic merit.

Bad l uck on the Gary Glitter stuff 😂

The jokes I had in mind would probably get me 🚫 for all intents and purposes those that you shouldn't find funny and feel guilty immediately after the inappropriate laughter.
I will give leaving the link a miss too 🤣

 

[Jasonovich]

Awesome stuff Stuart! Great read 😊👍
I see some green shoots especially with the youngsters today.
Every year in our workplace we have apprentice positions for school leavers and I'm completely bowled over by their commitment and enthusiasm.
This resonates positively, to the point, I find myself working that bit harder because those kids are looking at me to set example.

What's scary for me today, are the mind police, FB, Instagram, Google et'al are all instruments of an unseen power that want to herd us like sheep.
Left unchecked or ignorance from the populous will ultimately mean a total erosion of freewill, free speech is already eradicated.
Echo's from nasty trolls are like flies knocking themselves out against the glass plane. Ignore them, there are bigger fish to fry 😀

Wokedom is another apparatus our rulers use, social engineering is a new tool to quash objectivity and free thought.
Some aspects of Woke is irritating, like women wearing clothing with baby onboard etched on to the garment.
In my time, there was an expectation and common courtesy to give up your seat to an expecting mother.
We seem to have lost sight of that.

I'm commuting to London, a young woman with a passenger onboard message on her sweatshirt was getting quite agitated that nobody was giving up their seat. She had to tap someone's shoulder, the man gets up and looking slightly embarrassed that she targeted him and not someone else.
I have on more than one occasion confused a proportionately large woman as being pregnant.

When is your baby due ?
I'm not pregnant
Oh F'k. You smile and walk away.

If I remembered correctly, I had to take off the DM101 platter first, prior to realignment.

This Album thread is collecting some luggage but hey ho, it's always nice to share 😊👍

 

[Stuart83]

Your post resonates deeply with me especially the second paragraph.
Free speech is part of what founded democracy yet we now delete it.
In the interest of staying out of trouble I will leave the shared sentiment there, my having to leave it there just proves how far it's all gone🗯️
(I'd imagine there's times when the moderators feel the knock on effect of this social engineering as it rolls downhill having them act otherwise out of character)
I know one thing, I do not recognise the world I grew up in and in my early 40s that scares me.

Sharing Luggage over a common hobby 🫡 is a good way of getting to know who's behind the keyboard.
I've found it usually adds a positive to the experience of sharing a passion/hobby with people, many a Hifi convention made such more of a pleasure with like minded conversation (always with hifi shoved in there somewhere😂)
I know I enjoyed putting a face to "Amormusic" at the Maverick and to see the old Leak Stereo 20 although invoking old memories I didn't remember it sounding that good.

Now here's a question for you Jasononvich that I really should start a new thread with-

If you were to be blasted to the moon with your hifi etc obviously 😂 and you were only allowed to take 3 albums with the best starting first numerically what would they be?

I say three as I can't think of more than 3 myself 🤷 but please add as many as you want, with me they'd all probably be "The Lumineers" apart from maybe the four seasons Vivaldi which I just sit in awe at.

 

[Jasonovich]

Stuart I'll never live on the moon, the night clubs have no atmosphere.
Yeah I think used that gag already. 😂
Seriously though.

Albums are about the mood you're in, I don't have the kind mood swings like my missus (oops)
This should be easy.
I suppose I can always listen to Dark side of the Moon by Pink Floyd. David Bowie's Scary Monsters Super Creeps, most underrated Bowie album and the last one,....... thinking......... thinking ah,
Bridge over Trouble Waters by Simon and Garfunkel 😊
I think my thread has grasped it's last breath.
Absolutely start a new thread, Moon and three albums great idea! 😀