Starting Analog...


NAD C350 / Quad 21Ls

local dealer sells Project turntables - didn't get the model number but offered it to me for $350CDN(265US) New and a NAD PP-2 Phono Stage $160CDN(120US).

Flea Markets and local pawnshops are dry for TTs and Ebay isn't super apealing to me. Any thoughts on the Project line of TTs and this phono-stage?

Sound like a good way to start up?
vaystrem

Showing 1 response by patrickamory

One person's hassle is another person's idea of a great time.

I like the time, the involvement, the rituals. The sense that one is handling precious objects - LP, turntable, tonearm, cartridge, stylus.

I like the gorgeous construction of well-made analog devices. It's a pleasure to see the mechanical running of them.

Nothing could be a further cry from pushing a silver disc into a drawer, or indeed clicking a mouse or trackpad.

The WHOLE analog deal is wonderful. It might not be to your taste, but many of us have fallen in love with it and won't let go. And in some way it seems to me that all this - the physical and emotional involvement, the sense of running parts in a system where everything has to be set just so, like the rigging of a ship, is somehow connected to the glorious sound of a great analog stereo, and its unrivalled ability to communicate emotion and music.