{"id":126,"date":"2011-02-10T15:30:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T19:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2015-07-15T10:47:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T14:47:34","slug":"vinyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Vinyl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this I&#8217;m listening to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/East-Side-Story-Squeeze\/dp\/B000002GC8\/ref=sr_1_5?s=music&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1297366026&amp;sr=1-5\">Squeeze&#8217;s Argybargy<\/a><\/em> which I ripped from vinyl to MP3 a while ago. After doing this with a couple of albums, <em>Argybargy<\/em>, The Pretenders <em>Learning to Crawl<\/em>, I&#8217;m really happy with the results. Vinyl ripped to MP3 sounds very good. In some cases better than CD. It&#8217;s been a good experiment but wonder if I couldn&#8217;t make things even better by upgrading my equipment. I&#8217;m using an old technics direct drive turntable with a grado cartridge and a reasonably good Denon integrated amp. I wonder how much better it would be if I upgraded to a low end Music Hall Turntable like an MMF 2.1 or a Rega RP-1 and exchanged the Denon for the Adcom Pre-Amp that&#8217;s filling in for my broken A\/V amp downstairs. On the other hand I wonder how much I would use a new turntable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this I&#8217;m listening to Squeeze&#8217;s Argybargy which I ripped from vinyl to MP3 a while ago. After doing this with a couple of albums, Argybargy, The Pretenders Learning to Crawl, I&#8217;m really happy with the results. Vinyl ripped to MP3 sounds very good. In some cases better than CD. It&#8217;s been a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/?p=126\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vinyl&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}