£500k Vinyl System News Item

Also available on iPlayer. The last 8 or so minutes is all that matters.

The reporter said he had heard an ear-opening system but would be going back to his server based system.

Did someone really 'clean' a record (in the first segment) using handkerchief?

There was a R3 record review programme broadcast from there on RSD (22 April). I was going to post the link but it's no longer available on iPlayer.

Good call Nick. Damn this new technology - I'm still looking for a blank VHS tape. My Betamax machine is at the menders.

Can anyone identify the turntable and cartridge (with a cross on the front) in use at Spiritland?

John.

John I have been to Spiritland many times. The TT is a top-of-the-range Kuzma Stabi, not sure what the cart is. They sometimes use other TTs. Amplification is mostly valve stuff. The system is quite impressive, but the venue, while great, isn't completely suited to listening to music. Plus a lot of the music they play is crap.

When I requested some Throbbing Gristle one night, they declined.

Nick from Suffolk posted:

Also available on iPlayer. The last 8 or so minutes is all that matters.

The reporter said he had heard an ear-opening system but would be going back to his server based system.

Did someone really 'clean' a record (in the first segment) using handkerchief?

 

 

I got the impression he was returning to digital with regret, definitely a touch of melancholy in his voice.

He did say listening to the system at spiritland was like travelling first class, why would anybody want to go back to budget.

Just think how impressed he’d have been if they hadn’t been playing the dirtiest, warped record they could find.

Just watched. I found this a quite shallow uninformative report which is fairly  typical recent times BBC. The guy reporting can't be held accountable, I get the feeling he would have loved to have invested a great deal more in his feature.

cyclo posted:

Just watched. I found this a quite shallow uninformative report which is fairly  typical recent times BBC. The guy reporting can't be held accountable, I get the feeling he would have loved to have invested a great deal more in his feature.

 

It is a segment in a magazine show aimed at the general viewer, not hi-fi bores/geeks.

As such it was fine and there was nothing 'shallow' or 'uninformative' about it - the editor made the right call given the context.

You obviously don't know much about journalism (broadcast or print) - reporters have no say in, or control over, how, when, at what length or in what shape their stories appear. These decisions are down to editors. I know - I've spiked, nibbed and been spiked and nibbed!

24 hour news broadcasting has to be filled up with lightweight/entertaining stuff, when nothing of pith or import is happening. The BBC news web-site treated us a couple of days ago, to a selfie of David Cameron and his wife's feet. I kid you not.

Whatever would Lord Reith make of it all?

I hear that 'BBC News 48' is due to be launched soon. Pretty much the same deal, but it'll be on twice as long.

John.

I have been to Spiritland a few times now and the system is impressive although a little larger than life  - as if the artists are 9 foot tall - if you go there you will realise what I mean. But the system can really swing and groove esp. with Jazz.

The last time I was their Joe Boyd was talking about his time working on Nick Drake's first two albums with an end to end playback  back of Bryter Latter, on vinyl. A very enjoyable evening.

Richard