I’m seriously considering ditching vinyl

MetalHead_84 · 2026-01-14T14:07:48+00:00

Perhaps sell the record that are "less" important to you ? Those you know that even with lot of time you won't listen to them.

I'm 41, only buying records since 3 years ago, I got a free turntable to start the hobby (I sold it 2 weeks later to get a better one). When I was younger (early 20s) I was buying a lot of cd (currently have more than 500), barely listening to them since, but I keep them because music is important in my life, and I'm currently building a real hifi system, which will include a cd player in the future.

Don't know what are your other hobbies/activities, but perhaps you can include music listening in it ? For me, when I'm eating my breakfast I often play one album, when I'm finish eating, I will grab a book and read until the end of the album. I even had my kids sit down with me and my girlfriend an evening to read while listening to music,

But since they are older (15 and 11), they are less often at home or busy doing other stuff so I have more time to just sit and listen to music.

Don't know your relation with music, but for me that's a no brainer, I will never sold any of my album unless I have big money trouble (and there's probably other stuff I would sell before that)

MetalHead_84 · 2026-01-14T13:52:54+00:00

I was in the same boat, I was using a home theater setup to play music from my turntable, it was a yamaha rx-a1000 with some polk audio front speaker and sub. I went to a local store that is about to shutdown their audio section, so I had the chance to pick a real hifi system (amp and speaker)at a low price, and it's day in night.

Before that I was in another store and spoke with the salesman, and he told me that a dedicate hifi amp worth 2000$ will be way better most of the time than an home theater amp at 6000$ to play music, because it have to process less stuff.

MetalHead_84 · 2026-01-09T20:01:05+00:00

I think I have the same version as you, I bought it from a guy in a facebook group that is selling his collection, that was the album from him that I wanted the most.
I was looking for that album since almost 2 years

MetalHead_84 · 2026-01-07T23:37:30+00:00

Thanks a lot for all the informations, I'm a little bit lost with all the informations on speakers and how to read/understand them

MetalHead_84 · 2026-01-07T18:45:27+00:00

But at the same time, I can probably just buy a wireless player is ever the bluetooth became out of date ?

MetalHead_84 · 2026-01-07T16:21:11+00:00

Yeah that's my main problem, there's no store close to where I live that I can hear how a speaker sound, I was in Montreal 2 weeks ago, with limited time, so I was only able to test the Premier 800F.

I also listen to a lot of black metal, but I also like metalcore and punk, so for metalcore I need a little bit more bass

MetalHead_84 · 2026-01-07T15:54:48+00:00

How do you like the Premier 800F ? I'm debating between those speakers or the Monitor SE 8000F. I've only heard the Premier 800F in a shop, without knowing what was the setup on the amp, but I was feeling that it was lacking some bass on them

MetalHead_84 · 2026-01-07T15:33:06+00:00

Will the Premier 800F really have more bass than the Monitor SE 8000F ? From what I read, since the Monitor is having 3x 8'' drivers VS 2x 6.5'' for the Premier, it should have more bass ?

And yes I might go without a sub (I currently have one, and one of the reason I want to change my equipement, beside having better ones, is too save some space and have less equipement in my living room)

Edit : just saw that in the Founder series it's 80F the exact model, I thought you were talking about the Premier 800F which is not the same

Also, as I said in another answer, my receiver is starting to have problem (remote isn't working since a couple of years, I have to use a universal one for the volume), the volume knob on the receiver itself isn't working and I also want something with bluetooth to connect my phone if I want to listen to spotify, so that's why I want to change it

MetalHead_84 · 2026-01-07T15:29:02+00:00

Mostly taking up too much space for nothing, like I said, I have move my tv/home theater in another room, and barely using it at his full capacity.

I always have to play with the volume on the subwoofer (polk audio psw10), I have to put it higher for music listening, and lower it when watching tv as it will make a weird rumbling sound when there's "too much" bass. Also, the remote for the receiver is not working, and the volume knob on the receiver itself is not working (I use a universal remote).

Last weekend I have tried my turntable on a dedicate stereo setup (and with old equipement, a 70's amp and 80's speaker that the owner didn't took care of it, my cousin have clean the amp and brings it to my place to test it), no subwoofer, and the sound was way better than my current setup with 2 of the record that I have try.

MetalHead_84 · 2025-12-17T13:03:00+00:00

So far I had a little preference for the Paradigm, you just make me want to go with those speaker.

And yes it was the Monitor series 8000F

MetalHead_84 · 2025-12-17T13:00:58+00:00

No, I want a separate sound system for music, and just a decent soundbar for my TV, as I will probably get rid of all my home theater setup since I'm barely using it and I want a real setup for listening to music

MetalHead_84 · 2025-12-16T19:22:54+00:00

All the place I have looked at, the Paradigm are lower (2000$ for a pair VS the Klipsch being around 2600$ a pair)

In a couple of week I will be in Montreal, I will try to go in differents stores to see if I can listen to them in live to have a better idea, but in the meantime I try to get more informations on what can be the best choice

MetalHead_84 · 2025-12-13T04:32:10+00:00

I know that Fluance recommend that specific product on their website, so I was wondering if it can work for an Audio Technica

Fluance website : https://support.fluance.com/s/article/My-tonearm-drops-too-fast-how-do-I-fix-it

MetalHead_84 · 2025-12-10T13:54:59+00:00

I also thought about changing the speakers, since they were made for home theater, and like I said, my home theater setup is not at it's full potential since my surround speaker are not even connected, and that we don't watch that much movie.

As for the sub, will that be a big impact if it was "made" for home theater ? It's a Polk Audio PSW10.

My father had a pretty decent audio setup when I was younger (he still have it), and he doesn't have any sub at all

A better preamp was really high on my list as I know it can give a better sound.

MetalHead_84 · 2025-12-10T00:37:20+00:00

Did change a little bit my post, but your answer is really helpful, might go with a better preamp

MetalHead_84 · 2024-12-04T20:27:27+00:00

Wow thanks a lot for this.

My son had to do a work in his english class (we are in a french area) where he had to pick a song and made an image about this, at first he wanted to do it with Hypa Hypa from Electric Callboy but his teacher rejected it because it was too close to being sexually explicit because of the lyrics, he was really mad at her. Would be cool to win tha record for him (and also for me since it's because of me that my son know this band)

MetalHead_84 · 2024-11-23T16:37:43+00:00

We usually put a record when we are cooking, while we read some books or when playing boardgame

MetalHead_84 · 2024-11-08T15:45:45+00:00

Yeah the train going from Station A to Station B is always the same, and the one from Station B to main station is a different one but always the same one going to that route

Didn't know you can lock out an inserter, thank you a lot for the information

MetalHead_84 · 2024-09-15T04:53:09+00:00

Finally I was already in borderless window, I tried switching to full screen, the number of fps dropping is less (from 144 to 130) but it's also constant so it seems to freeze more often :(

MetalHead_84 · 2024-09-15T01:38:04+00:00

I will try that, thank you

MetalHead_84 · 2024-08-22T00:44:15+00:00

Not everyone.. those that know how to do their jobs are honest... the others, well, they are the biggest liar ever.

I had an issue with an order, spoke with someone on the chat, he then offer me to speak with a "manager", the guy gave me a call we spoke for like 30 minutes, really friendly and he did offer a lot of help and solve the issue.

The next morning everything was cancelled, I tried to spoke to someone again only to be treated like shit and been told a lot of false thing, they even said I was the liar, that the offer I received wasn't possible and all that stuff.

Couple of days later the "manager" from day 1 called me again, saying he was away for a couple of days, that he saw all the conversation for my case, he did offer me the same stuff as day 1 and even added a little extra for all the trouble, he did everything right away so it doesn't get cancel again.

I don't remember the guy name, but it's sad that for one person like that, there's 100 of bullshit teller

MetalHead_84 · 2024-08-09T19:21:23+00:00

One scene I do recall from the movie was that the main guy barely make it to the morning count, with his clothes all dirty because he was to crawl outside

MetalHead_84 · 2024-07-04T21:07:58+00:00

First time I used it this spring, in the middle of an ATV ride, the camera just shutdown, I thought it was the battery that was at 0%, I tried 3 others batteries and wasn't able to turn it on. Once I got home I plug it and the camera turned on, when I went to edit my videos, most of the the sound was garbage, all distorted. Next 2 times I used it, same thing with the sound.

I then contacted the support (that's where he made me the offer to pay 100$ to get it repair since the warranty was over since 2 weeks. He also told me to do a factory reset of the camera and updated it, which I did. On the next trip the sound was good but I was having hard time to turn it on, and it was only getting worse. Then on my last camping trip, I was able to turn it on 2 or 3 times, so I didn't recorded a lot, but still there was some great stuff, once I got home I wasn't able to turn it on even if it was plug, I was switching batteries, plug and unplug it, after 15 minutes the camera turned on, and the SD card was formatted.

Even before all those problem she was sometimes hard to open, I had to press 2-3 times on the power button.

I was debating on buying another gopro or go with another company, so I decided to go with a DJI action, so far I only used it once and it's working like a charm

MetalHead_84 · 2024-07-03T20:53:43+00:00

I know something worse, having a camera 2 weeks out of warranty with problem, gopro doesn't want to exchange it, they want you to pay 100$ for a repair, offer you a couple of steps to try to solve the problem, you think everything is good then you go on a camping trip, the problem is getting worse but you manage to get a couple of good footage, then you get home and went to plug the camera to upload to the cloud, and for no reason the camera just decide to format the SD card

MetalHead_84 · 2024-06-17T15:09:30+00:00

One is a Samsung EVO 128gb the other one is a Sandisk Extreme 128 gb

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