No, Fender. Stop it.

[logdrum]

Actually some hi-fi turntables are like this - the belt is visible. But this poor execution.

 

[Spectrum]

That’s gotta be one of the biggest Emperor’s New Clothes sheeple con jobs ever. I was quite happy to kiss vinyl goodbye 30 years ago. If vinyl was so great in the first place, why wasn’t there a great hue and cry over it being phased out back then, even when the mastering/fidelity on the earliest CD’s wasn’t all that great, due to the fact that they were still using the LP masters(with their baked-in limitations)? Over time, labels figured out that oversight, and of course would periodically upgrade everything. What cracks me up about people’s self-righteous embracing of vinyl now, is that it’s still coming from a digital source. I never missed the extra handling, pops, surface noise, diminished frequency range, having to turn it over in 20 minutes, any of that. If anyone wants to prove how ironically hip they are, start collecting 78’s…
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Oh yeah, that turntable…a sucker born every minute.

"Self righteous"?

I don't get the hostility. Some people like records. Some don't. Everybody wins.

 

[jimmydean]

Hay man , I dig that crazy whammy bar .

 

[RichterScale]

Will it help me pick up chicks?

 

[el jeffe bass]

Vinyl revival? I still gots my old ones

mostly Herb Alpert and the TJ brass

When I was very young, like maybe ten years old, my mom had the Herb Alpert album with the girl with whipped cream on her pointy things on the cover. Needless to say I was smitten.

 

[WillyW]

When I was very young, like maybe ten years old, my mom had the Herb Alpert album with the girl with whipped cream on her pointy things on the cover. Needless to say I was smitten.

that’s the hardest one to find in “good” condition….

 

[Gustopher]

Don’t care what you guys say, it’s really nice looking. Too expensive for my wallet, but I think of someone wants to go for it, have at it. I would if I could.

 

[JMarkD]

I may be mistaken but I thought I remember reading somewhere that before he got into designing amps Leo Fender did in fact, design or repair turntables. But I could be mistaken. I am old and have a huge record collection and a turntable that I probably used seven or eight years ago. I don't listen to CDs either, my hearing is shot and it all sounds like crap anyway.

 

[RichterScale]

I thought I remember reading somewhere that before he got into designing amps Leo Fender did in fact, design or repair turntables.

He very well could have. He had an interest in electronics and dabbled in it enough to teach himself enough to open a repair shop. From what I've read, mostly radios, PA systems and amplifiers. But I'm sure he fiddled with a bit of everything. In fact, Rickenbacker would send him amps to repair, when they were young and making amps and lap steels.
I'm sure Leo got all his ideas for how to build an amp from fixing Rics.
That's how he met Doc Kauffman. Who left Ric and teamed up with Leo. That's where Leo learned how to build a lap steel and a pickup.

 

[Iristone]

I don't really get the appeal of vinyl either. Growing up in the digital age, I used to fall for that vinyls may have preserved a bit more details in its analogue processing - that is, until I actually listened to one. Now I'd take CD or even MP3 any day of the week. And this comes from someone who actively prefer the overdrive sound of old valve bass amps.

 

[BassFishingInAmerica]

I refuse to buy in to the vinyl revival

The funny thing is, the so called “revival” happened well over 10 years ago.

For me “revival” meant pulling my LPs out of the closet.

 

[dangevans]

Who buys this kind of stuff? LOL

 

[GretschWretch]

Vinyl revival? I still gots my old ones

mostly Herb Alpert and the TJ brass

Hear hear! Only with me it's the DC5 and Herman's Hermits along with the TJB.

 

[mongo2]

What, no Antigua?

 

[bass12]

In the US, by 1992, it had pretty much vanished, except for limited editions or as novelty pressings. In the UK/EU it might have lingered on.

You’re right where standard pop/rock releases were concerned, but anything that was likely to appeal to club DJs was being released on vinyl until DJing with digital files became the norm. Lots of hip-hop, house, drum ‘n’ bass, trip-hop, funk re-issues, reggae, etc.

 

[juancaminos]

Yeah this came up in my Fender news letter this morning. And I am in the market for a turntable. I was real excited until I got to the price...Fender....are you kidding? I'll just have to get my old old Technics direct drive serviced.

 

[Blue Moose]

I'm waiting 'till they come out with the "Player Series Record Player" at $799.

 

[Alkali Ike]

Some actual info about the TT including Fender’s contributions: swamp ash plinth and sunburst finish. Specs for wow & flutter and s/n ratio are really good for a TT.

Fender PrecisionDeck Turntable — Mobile Fidelity Electronics

 

[Black_In_Mind]

The funny thing is, the so called “revival” happened well over 10 years ago.

If there is another revival coming it's more than likely a push from labels to milk the format dry again.

I stopped supporting the "revival" when psychological games became the best way to sell vinyl albums.

 

[BassFishingInAmerica]

I bet the Squier version will play just as good.