In this day of iPods and Mp3 players, I’ve spent the evening listening to Mantovani & His Orchestra and Robert Goulet on good old fashion 33 1/3 records.  Now you’re probably wondering why I even have records or how I got my hands on a record player.

Well when my parents moved to Florida several years ago, they left about 1/2 of their record collection in Mansfield at my grandparents.  Most of the records belonged to my Great Aunt Kay.  Now that my grandparents are selling their home and moved into a retirement community we needed to get all our stuff out of their basement.

So I made the trip back to Ohio this weekend with a van and loaded up about 500-600 records (really I have no idea how many there are) and moved them over to Indy with a bunch of other stuff.  My grandfather also gave me his record player so I can enjoy the tunes on my home theater system.  Of course, the only problem is I need to buy a preamp to properly boost the levels needed for a line input.  I took a crap shoot and checked out the inventory at the local Radio Shack, and of course the sales clerks had no clue what I was talking about. (They probably don’t even know what a record is.)

Thankfully the Internet came to save me once again.  PhonoPreAmps.comwas there to hook me up.  For $50 I have a new preamp in the mail to give me the power to now crank those German Waltzes.  It will also allow me to plus the turntable into the computer so I can encode these historic treasures.  I’d bet you that Robert Goulet in Person circa 1963 isn’t available on iTunes.  It could be, but I doubt it .. I’m tired.

The only downside about playing a record, is it doesn’t go 74 minutes before changing the platter.  Time to flip it to the “B” side and go unpack a few more boxes of records.

Posted: December 3rd, 2007 under Just another entry.
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