If only it didn't rumble, click, pop and get scratched it would be perfect :P
A properly set up turntable won't do any of these things; vinyl should last forever.
But we're
musicians though! :lol:
Dunno, it might have changed, but back when I were a young man, chaps could be roughly divided into two classes of audiophile:
Class 1: Hi-end hifi owners
Expensive turntables, amps, speakers, headphones, purpose built living rooms
No-one allowed to touch their vinyl (or sometimes even record sleeves) unless properly trained.
These guys would talk stylus, tone-arm balancing, etc.
They wouldn't be prepared to play your records on their system...
Class 2: Musicians.
Record player with plenty of oomph please...
Rusty old nail for "needle" (What's a "stylus"? isn't that what the Romans used for writing on wax tablets?)
Pass us a Pink Floyd album would you, I need to er, "lean on it" for a moment...
Now I'm old and trying to convert some of my records into digital, I somewhat regret being a member of Class 2 for all those years...
On the hot mastering though - the bit that really gets me is the digital clipping that gets left on commercial products. I don't mind too much if the dynamic range is squashed on new product and it comes out as a wall of sound. I feel like that's an "artistic" decision (possibly not taken by the artist, but that's another argument).
But clipping is just poor bloody workmanship - didn't they check the wretched thing? Didn't they spot the little red light go on??!! (or whatever mechanism the software used to highlight it, cos I bet there's one there on whatever mastering software they used)
