Some vintage TT porn -
For a case of obsessiveness check out the Nakamichi TT.
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Has anyone tried the Bluesound Hub yet? Supposed to allow you to add your TT to a Bluesound ecosystem.
I haven’t heard it but am curious about the ADC that it does. The NAD C658 can do the same thing but my understanding is it is limited to 24/96. On the Bluesound forum this was posted a few years ago.
" Three routes you can go here if it is that important to group your vinyl;
1. The New POWERNODE with 3 inputs along with a phone pre-amp (such as an NAD PP2i or PP4)
2. It’s a little more pricey but you may want to consider an NAD C658 along with a power amp such as an NAD C268. The C658 includes a phono in along with analogue by-pass and DIRAC Room correction so there is value if you do decide to go that route
3. Consider a TIDAL subscription and check out their large and ever growing MQA catalogue. MQA is not vinyl but it’s pretty darn close as the finest digital format reproduction (so far). Think 4K TV for your ears…
Full disclosure: The second you group your vinyl (or any analogue signal) regardless of how, there is an ADC conversion to 24/96 in BluOS. This happens in Option 1 everytime and in option 2 if you group on the secondary players. Option 3 may actually be the most accurate option audio wise - but all options still sound great"
I can’t find any information on whether the HUB improves on that.
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I can play vinyl from my 658 through my M10 in a different room. I haven’t checked the bit rate though.
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But every 18-25 minutes you gotta run back to the first room.
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Pfft, dedication!
Seriously I digitised my vinyl. I did try it out though through BluOS.
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It’s called exercise 
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Just got some upgrades for one of my many tt’s but the bearing will be for the Garrard 401 shown…the platter weight and LP weight can be used on several TT’s in the collection but most likely the 401 too for now as thats my current daily driver.
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Vinyl playback has so much pleasure to give. And it still sounds so good 
My Linn LP12 is still preferable, in many ways, to my digital sources.
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Brinkmann Bardo playing back the weirdo pressing (engraved from the inner groove outwards) of Jack White - Lazaretto
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Playing vinyl isn’t enough of a chore, already?
What happens when Side A gets to the end? Doesn’t look like much of a run out groove.
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Interesting.
I had the idea of running inside to the outside years ago mainly to alleviate the IGD and to assist with big classical works where the finale was compromised in vinyl due to those tight inner groove’s ( think 1812 overture cannons).
Everyone laughed…
Maybe I should have persevered.
Of course it would need some form of tonearm lifter to save the stylus dropping off but sure that could have been figured out.
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Digital or analog recording? If analog then is it 100% analog? If not 100% analog then where in the recording/mixing/mastering chain is it digital?
As I’ve stated before, most, if not all, new vinyl has some digital somewhere in the recording/mixing/mastering chain. Aside from the fancy packaging and cool things being done with the vinyl itself, as is the case with the Jack White LP, it comes down to whether or not one thinks that the DAC used to convert the digital to analog for the final mastering step is better than the DAC one has in ones own audio system. And of course one could just prefer the sound of vinyl playback over that of digital playback, just one can prefer the sound of tubes over solid state. Not judging, just wondering.
What he said! Thanks for the video. At least I’m not alone in my thinking and feelings. Probably has something to do with my age (67) and having lived through the great analog versus digital war of the late 20th century.
I’m also fortunate to have not sold off my vinyl collection back when CDs were introduced, instead I just bought a better turntable. 
Now I have a large collection of 100% analog vinyl with no stickers or labels needed to let one know their source, since there was no digital around when most of these LPs were recorded, mixed and mastered.
By the way, I love both analog and digital. Besides all of my Roon listening, which is of course digital, all my headphone listening is done with digital sources and I do a lot of headphone listening.
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It’s a locked groove so there’s not much drama there, don’t remember what sounds are played but on the B-side there are some ravens making noise!
On one of the James Gang LPs the runout groove on side A said “Turn Me Over” and on side B it said “Play Me Again”, unless one had an automatic turntable, in which case one never got to hear the runout groove. For all other records the noise one heard at the end of record played on a manual turntable was called “retro-blip”.
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His position clarified -
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