Grateful Dead

Rush put their reissues on 200g vinyl.An extra 20g of vinyl. I’ll probably have to get ‘All The World’s A Stage’ and ‘Exit Stage Left’ to see how they sound. Yeah, this rabbit hole is pretty steep and deep (Steep and Deep is the name of a ski run at Vail).

Ah record store day. It really is Christmas in April. I have always been a big CD guy. I thought I would never get into vinyl. When my dad passed away a few years ago, I was helping to clean the house and saw his turntable. Said WTH and brought it home and bought a few records. Here I am 2.5 years later with almost 900 albums. Every Friday, I go to the local record store, been around for 40 years, buy some vineyl. than my wife and I sit at the bar in my basement, drink great beer and spin records. No better way to end a long week. It's a deep, deep rabbit hole but man is it awesome. As for turntables, the Audio Technica LP-60 is a very solid beginner table. It can be had for around $100. As someone else mentioned, the pre-amp in it and in most receivers suck. You definitely need a stand alone phone stage. Project has one that works pretty well for around $70. If you want to go a little higher lever, I highly recommend the Project Debut Carbon or the Music Hall MMF 2.2. Both are $299. For the person that has the Project and was thinking about upgrading, I recommend getting a new stylus. You can easily upgrade from the Ortofon red to the blue in a few seconds and it makes a big difference. That's the cool thing about the Project. You can easily upgrade down the line, for a few bucks ;). You can also look at getting a better phono stage. That will make a big difference as well. As for sound between digital and vinyl, well I have to say vinyl is much more natural and real. I have a really good headphone setup, with a very good DAC, cd player, headphone amps, etc. I designed to have an analog feel. As a CD guy, I spent a fair amount getting it just exactly perfect and it sounds awesome. I still love it. With that said, vinyl is just so warm and inviting. It's like sitting next to a warm fire with your significant other on a cold winters night. It just feels so right. I had a very good RSD, got all of the releases I wanted and some I didn't even plan on getting. Like I said, it's a deep 'ol rabbit hole. Enjoy!

Seems like 4000 of the 5000 copies are on EBAY!!! Wow

I was fortunate enough to get 2/27/69 -- This is what its all about. With the house to myself, I had this cranked up...goosebumps were a plenty on Saturday afternoon. Sound quality is just exactly perfect. I also picked up the Allman Brothers Live at the Atlanta International Pop Festival 1970...two shows that are basically identical but the sound quality is excellent.

I bought this album too, just because it's cut from a new Remaster. I still have my old Techniques turntable from the 1980's.. I suspect I will need to upgrade at some point, but time is on my side.

I bought a basic Pro-ject turntable and preamp about three years ago, just to listen to the old albums in the attic. I was very impressed with how good the albums still sounded, some 40 odd years after I bought them. I didn't intend buying any new albums-although I did occasionally treat myself. It was only with the release of Binghamptom 1970 earlier this year that I started focussing on vinyl again. And now I am really keen-the 4 Dead albums I have already got sound great. And Wheels Of Fire looks as impressive as ever propped up on the mantle piece. I have been very happy with my hi fi (do people still call the that?) set up so far...but I am now thinking of upgrading.

I bought this box set in spring of 2005 and I'm just now giving it a proper listen. musically its like like rooting around an old junk drawer and finding some things of interest.

The version of The Way You Do The Things You Do on the new Garcia Live is my new favorite!! Great release