I was given a very cool Christmas present - a turntable that converts my albums to iTunes format.

My husband has put together an awesome setup for me - the turntable, great speakers and a dedicated iTunes laptop.

So I can simply play my vinyls on the turntable if I'm feeling nostalgic, or I've also started converting some of them to iTunes and popping them on my iPod - having the 'vinyl' sound on my iPod is just amazing.

I'm having a lot of fun with this Chrissie pressie.

I have got a number of Enz LPs, one of which Seany was kind enought to get for me, which I play on my turntable rather than in cd form. Yes, they are a bit scratched some of them, but I still prefer them to cd.

But my particular favourite vinyl is David Bowie - China Girl. Great way to wake up on a Saturday and consider the weekend ahead, whilst bopping about to Let's Dance, with those deep bass notes.

On an Enz-specific note, they did do one of those neat things with the 'infinite groove' at the end of Mental Notes (a la Sgt Peppers), where Phil would continue to drone on, "Make a mental note"... ad infinitum until you lifted the needle

Anyone know if that carried on through all the pressings, or just the early ones? I had an 80s pressing myself, but never had the right sort of turntable to check it out...

Just bought the True Colours laser etched vinyl today!
I am a total vinyl whore.
By the way, for my 13th birthday in 1982 I got the 45 of "Six Month in a Leaky Boat". I still have it, of course.

Vinyl is definn-itely the most 'romantic' of the formats but it depends on the turntable and pick up how good records will sound.

Fortunately there's a special turntable that can be connected direct tot the computer so I have transferred some old vinyl to CD with very very good results so you can have the best of both worlds.

We just got a record player that can connect to our computer. Haven't had a chance to try that out yet, but I'm eager to give it a go. My Mothers' Day gift was 3 Split Enz records!

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Originally posted by Aka o Miru:
On an Enz-specific note, they did do one of those neat things with the 'infinite groove' at the end of Mental Notes (a la Sgt Peppers), where Phil would continue to drone on, "Make a mental note"... ad infinitum until you lifted the needle

Anyone know if that carried on through all the pressings, or just the early ones? I had an 80s pressing myself, but never had the right sort of turntable to check it out...

I've no idea when my copy was pressed but mine does that as well!