This is assuming you can deal with pops, clicks, and surface noise; getting off your ass to flip the record; and not have ADD where you can listen diligently and sit through an entire album.

Playing single tracks is not a problem, so long as one has a steady hand or an arm-lifting lever. Most of the new converts to vinyl tend to forget that it was once all we had and we lived with it.

Getting up to take the clicking stylus off the record, at the end, is, without a sem-auto deck, one of  the biggest pains of record playing.* It disturbs the meditational, music-induced trance.



*Actually, I don't like calling it "vinyl," even though it is. To me, they are still records, LPs, etc. I don't refer to CDs by the name of whatever plastic they are made of --- and my music-listening life actually started on shellac.

Enough OT bullshit about vinyl, can we please circle back to when shoestrings stopped being popular?

Clearly, Ken thinks velcro shoes are the future.

Or this one...

Or (close enough)



Gummy Schiit

So I wanted to follow up with something Merv said earlier (I think in this thread as well as others): that the muledeer2 actually held gumby back when compared to ragnarok (which in turn holds back yggy). I wonder if that applies to "lesser" amps as well, such as the valhalla2 (or various garage 1217 offerings), which kicks serious ass at its price point: would using gumby with valhalla2 be a waste of gumby?

But back to the matter at hand:

Clearly, Ken thinks velcro shoes are the future.

Or is he implying that society thought they were the future in the 80's & 90's and the sudden surge in shoestring sales is really just a hipster longing for "simpler times"? Either way, who the fuck calls shoelaces "shoestrings"?

or frostbit(e)