[quote user="dilznik"] No. I'm not one to try and relive parts of the past that serve no benefit to me, like bell bottoms, big hair, flannel, or Windows 95. I guess I'm too busy sitting on public transport with my headphones on. Valve amps, however, are another story. My next project is to build an all tube guitar amp. But I don't

[quote user="burantek"] [quote user="j0hnbarker"]People were saying similar things about vinyl 15 years ago. The cassette revival has already begun here in the UK. Sales of tapes increased last year for the first time in about a decade, and collectors are snapping up the more desirable Walkman models.[/quote] I think cassettes are

[quote user="dilznik"]There's a sucker born every minute apparently. [/quote] The polite term is enthusiast . I take it you're not a man who would appreciate listening to AM radio on an old valve set, or a regular visitor to the Vintage Products or Workbench section on this (enthusiast) site either then!?

[quote user="dilznik"][quote user="j0hnbarker"] [quote user="dilznik"]I ride public transportation an hour to and from work every day. If I didn't have music on my iPhone and earbuds in my ears I'd be forced to listen to the inane ramblings of complete idiots the whole way. [/quote] If you used a Sony Walkman and

[quote user="Puncher"] I prefer CD's for intimate occasions - it prevents having to stop what you're doing to change the disc over! [/quote] I find 45s are more than adequate playing time....

[quote user="dilznik"]I ride public transportation an hour to and from work every day. If I didn't have music on my iPhone and earbuds in my ears I'd be forced to listen to the inane ramblings of complete idiots the whole way. [/quote] If you used a Sony Walkman and a C90 cassette though you'd surely understand where the OP was

[quote user="Electrified"] If people prefer to listen to vinyl because they like the rituals associated with it, that's fine with me, I will just disagree when that sort of people claim that the audio quality is better, that there are more dynamic range with vinyl and other such nonsensical claims. [/quote] I didn't make any claims

[quote user="Electrified"] [quote user="j0hnbarker"]I did once rip all my albums into iTunes, but to be honest I'd much rather put a CD or an LP on and listen to that. When I pick up a book I don't read random chapters, and I feel the same about music to be honest. [/quote] You can listen to whole albums even if it's

Agree totally with the sentiment behind Bentleyman's post. I've posted here on the forum before about my distaste for the way in which music seems to be moving from a physical storage medium that is owned by an individual, to an electronic storage medium where the 'product' does not physically exist in any commonly understood sense of

Have a search on the forum for 8"/Peerless/woofers and you'll find lots of posts on this topic. There's a current thread on the N. American forum about 8" woofers from MS150.2s that touches on this subject...