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I don't know if "vinylphile" is a word, but . . . .

I started my vinyl collection 13 months ago when my wife bought me a turntable for Christmas. Since then I have acquired the following albums:

Arlo Guthrie
Alice’s Restaurant

Beach Boys
Best Of

Beatles
Beatles Second Album
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Band
Magical Mystery Tour
Abbey Road
Let It Be

Bee Gees
Best Of

Black Sabbath
We Sold Our Soul For Rock & Roll

Blue Oyster Cult
Tyranny And Mutations
Secret Treaties

Bob Dylan
Infidels
Mixing Up The Medicine

Bob Seger
Night Moves
Against The Wind
Greatest Hits

Bread
Now Playing

Buffalo Springfield
Retrospective

Carman
A Long Time Ago In Bethlehem

Carol King
Tapestry

Chicago
Chicago II

Cream
Best Of

Charlie Daniels
Memories, Memoirs, & Miles

Classical Music
Is Not Boring

Creedence Clearwater Revival
Chronicle

Danny Gaither
Hymns

Derek And The Dominoes
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

Eagles
Hotel California
Greatest Hits
The Long Run

Elvis
Golden Records

Eric Clapton
Slowhand

Fleetwood Mac
Rumours

Foreigner
Records

Gordon Lightfoot
Now Playing

Harry Chapin
Heads and Tales

Highwaymen
Live

Jackson Browne
Running On Empty

Jefferson Airplane
Surrealistic Pillow

Jesus Christ Superstar

Jethro Tull
Aqualung

Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin I
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin IV (ZOSO)
In Through The Out Door

Lynyrd Skynerd
Icon

The Monkees
Greatest Hits

Neil Diamond
All Time Greatest Hits

Pat Benatar
Icon

Petra
Wakeup Call

Pink Floyd
Dark Side Of The Moon
The Wall
Wish You Were Here

Rolling Stones
Through The Past, Darkly
Hot Rocks

Simon and Garfunkle
Greatest Hits

Supertramp
Breakfast In America

Temptations/Four Tops
Motown TV Soundtrack

Ten Years After
A Space In Time

Traveling Wilburys

The Who
Who’s Next

Good stuff. My collection is more Punk/New Wave. The classics were mostly on cassettes. No Bowie? ouch. Funny Stones choices, Beggar's Banquet is my favorite, and Rolled Gold is a pretty good best so far.

A mix of songs and albums there but I am noticing some overlap in our music tastes.

I’ll talk albums. Though I may have to continue later.

With Led Zep I’d delete the their 3rd album and insert Physical Grafitti. Three of their very best tracks are on that double album.

With Black Sabbath: Master of Reality, Volume 4, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Sabotage and Technical Ecstasy.

No Deep Purple ….. In Rock and Fireball.

The Pink Floyd. Relics, Ummagumma and Meddle.

Hawkwind?

Jonathan

warshipadmin wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 4:29 am Good stuff. My collection is more Punk/New Wave. The classics were mostly on cassettes. No Bowie? ouch. Funny Stones choices, Beggar's Banquet is my favorite, and Rolled Gold is a pretty good best so far.

RecentlyI have been listening to Electric Moon, The Machine etc.

I stick to YouTube through a decent screen, lots of good speakers and well positioned seatage.

Jonathan

Excellent Collection. Chicago II IMO is their best, Sold our Souls for Rock and Roll (early greatest hits is a good choice sans getting the library). Aqualung is a solid Choice. For CDB I liked Million Mile Reflections a little better. You got the best of Roger Waters' Pink Floyd, the two after are very good as well. My vinyl collection has gone thru many changes and I haven't reviewed it in several years. You have a solid start there.

warshipadmin wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 4:29 am Good stuff. My collection is more Punk/New Wave. The classics were mostly on cassettes. No Bowie? ouch. Funny Stones choices, Beggar's Banquet is my favorite, and Rolled Gold is a pretty good best so far.

Not a huge Bowie fan. The Rolling Stones, I want to get Sticky Fingers, Let It Bleed, Goats Head Soup, but with prices ranging from $35 to $100 and more, I can only get a couple albums a month.

Do you prefer a direct drive or belt drive turntable?

JBG wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 7:04 am A mix of songs and albums there but I am noticing some overlap in our music tastes.

I’ll talk albums. Though I may have to continue later.

With Led Zep I’d delete the their 3rd album and insert Physical Grafitti. Three of their very best tracks are on that double album.

With Black Sabbath: Master of Reality, Volume 4, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Sabotage and Technical Ecstasy.

No Deep Purple ….. In Rock and Fireball.

The Pink Floyd. Relics, Ummagumma and Meddle.

Hawkwind?

Jonathan

Zep 3 is a good album, but will have to wait. My next Zep will be Physical Graffiti. Kashmir is their best song IMHO. Sabbath "We Sold Our Soul. . ." has their early hits, the ones from when I was a teen in the 60s/early 70s. Pink Floyd, I have Animals, Ummagumma, Obscured By Clouds on my "to get" list. I would not be averse to getting Machine Head by Deep Purple.

Bob Dedmon wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 1:30 pm Excellent Collection. Chicago II IMO is their best, Sold our Souls for Rock and Roll (early greatest hits is a good choice sans getting the library). Aqualung is a solid Choice. For CDB I liked Million Mile Reflections a little better. You got the best of Roger Waters' Pink Floyd, the two after are very good as well. My vinyl collection has gone thru many changes and I haven't reviewed it in several years. You have a solid start there.

Agree 100% on Chicago II. The Charlie Daniels Band I got is not the greatest, I want to get Full Moon and Windows. What I am searching for is some Moody Blues. Days of Future Past and Greatest Hits for starters. There are a couple more Pink Floyd albums on my "to get" list also, Animals, Obscured By Clouds, Ummagumma.

I've had a direct drive turntable, my current one is a belt drive Thorens TD 150, SME V arm, and a nice Ortofon cartridge (from memory). It's currently in storage waiting for the purchase of our forever house. From an engineering point of view it seems to me that belt drive is more likely to provide a smooth drive.

warshipadmin wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 9:33 pm I've had a direct drive turntable, my current one is a belt drive Thorens TD 150, SME V arm, and a nice Ortofon cartridge (from memory). It's currently in storage waiting for the purchase of our forever house. From an engineering point of view it seems to me that belt drive is more likely to provide a smooth drive.

My current turntable is a Retrolife belt drive with a AudioTechnica moving coil cartridge run through a Onkyo stereo receiver and Sony SSU400 3 way speakers. Both belt and direct drive have their pros and cons. Belt drive has the tendency to vary speed slightly causing more wow and flutter than direct drive. Direct drive can produce a slight hum in certain circumstances. I'm happy with my setup right now.

My amp died (capacitors, replaced once all ready). I've bought but not installed a valve based preamp just for fun. I forgot to mention my lovely B&W DM5 speakers. I've just checked, the tonearm is a SME IIIs and the turntable is a TD160B and the cartridge is an Ortofon VMS30. I pulled the foam inserts from the springs in the deck to reduce the friction, and put sound deadening on the subframe to increase its mass and damp any vibration. This doesn't seem to have caused any bad effects, but of course the sound deadening upset the 'ride height' of the springs, so I spend far too long resetting the preload to get the subframe to move smoothly with no direct shorts. needless to say in my dotage I wish I'd left the deck as standard.

In my recent archeological work at home I have not got around to old stereo equipment yet. There is a wardrobe full including two belt drive turntables. Nor have I got around to records, having mine plus two friends records, about 4 metres of shelf space of albums.

At present both the systems used are Yamahas. One home theatre with 8 speakers and a similar stereo set up with 6 gruntier speakers that is not connected to cable so I use it for the 100 or so albums that the then in house tech support loaded onto an iPad.

Be nice after 20 years to go back to a turntable though. When I go back to work I’ll ask the resident audiophile about valve amps.

Jonathan

JBG wrote: ↑Sun Feb 01, 2026 12:14 am
Be nice after 20 years to go back to a turntable though. When I go back to work I’ll ask the resident audiophile about valve amps.

Jonathan

I love vinyl. Vinyl has a sound and tonal quality that digital can't equal.

My younger daughter asked for the Epic soundtrack for Christmas on vinyl.

I have a small collection of mid-80's pop and my parents entire collection of vinyl from the 60's and 70's, which is almost all classical music.

Belushi TD

I don't think I have any classical music on vinyl, which is funny because I mostly listen to classical these days. I started buying LPs in the mid 70s and pretty much stopped in 1982 (last one I bought was Imperial Bedroom, Elvis Costello), switching to cassettes as I was driving a lot and then CDs.

I don't think I have any classical music on vinyl, which is funny because I mostly listen to classical these days. I started buying LPs in the mid 70s and pretty much stopped in 1982 (last one I bought was Imperial Bedroom, Elvis Costello), switching to cassettes as I was driving a lot and then CDs.

Some good albums there.
And agree on your vinyl comments.

Lockdown made me catalogue everything (what else was I going to do…), including my CDs/albums…will see if I can find a way to share my XLS, but in the interim….



Currently trying to negotiate with the current Mrs Fox as to where the music and the record player goes (while doing the same with Friedman and Burt reference books…)

RJGFox wrote: ↑Sat Feb 07, 2026 12:13 am Some good albums there.
And agree on your vinyl comments.

Thanks. Thats a lot of music . . . . I haven't catalogued my CD collection, although I plan on doing so. Now that there's no NHL games on until the end of the month this might be a good time to do so. . . .