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I've Got One Turntable....

And zero microphones. OK, that was a bad joke, but I always think of that song when I say "turntable."

For fathers day this year, I was given a new turntable. A Sony PS-LX300USB to be precise. This is the first turntable I have had since, I guess, the mid-1980's. I have been casually thinking about getting one for a couple of years. My son got a turntable for Christmas last year. Ever since then, I have thought more about it as I have bought three records since then. He will listen to the records in his room. I even went to the trouble of waiting in line at the latest Record Store Day to buy a record from Touche Amore. I bought a limited edition record from The Eradicator. Fortunately, each of those records was accompanied by a download code so that I could at least listen to the music that I had bought but had no other way to hear. The one record that I bought, that I knew my son would like, already had a legal download of, was American Football's first LP. Again, it was a special picture disk edition.

The only problem with my turntable is that my wife picked it out and didn't understand that I either needed an amplifier or powered speakers to make it work. I found this pair of Edifier speakers and finished the setup yesterday.

After all these years of listening to cassette tapes, CD's and digital files, it is exciting to have a turntable again. I just wonder if Gina REALLY knows what door she has opened.
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