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What You Listening To? v. I'll be Bach... (No Embeds)

No linky here, because what I'm listening to now is not on the Internet!

I'm listening to files on my own computer, transferred from the LP -- as in analogue, vinyl, 33 and a third RPM LP -- of the Levellers' Greatest Hits. This is my Christmas present from my wonderful Partner in Crime; pressed on nice heavyweight vinyl, 5 or 6 tracks to a side. Hardware used was a Soundlab direct drive turntable with magnetic cartridge, via an ION VinylForever USB A/D converter with switchable RIAA / flat characteristic, into a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 15 laptop; software was Audacity on Ubuntu GNU/Linux (but also available for Windows and Mac).

This way, I get the actual LP to hold and look at and probably, if we're brutally honest, skin up on; but I also get it in digital form, with authentic vinyl warmth (or snap, crackle and pop, if you look at it that way).

Oh, and Jess, I love you very much for buying me this album <3
 
Interesting. How did you power the turntable (as in sound), or did you not need to?

I still have my Technics turntable & amp/receiver up in the loft, but the speakers were put to charity a few years ago. I'm toying with the idea of reinstating it somewhere, somehow.
 
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