Never seen www.gemm.com before - very nice site, too!

What I like about www.musicstack.com, though, is you can specify media so if you are searching for a specific album you will only get hits in vinyl if that's what you want.

With the Beogram 8002 in top performing condition and now also a Beogram 6006 white edition performing and looking like new( I have yet to pick it up at Dillen) I got the best recordplayers than I ever had. I never got into hifi and once it was B&O I came across it is that audio and video brand I will stick too for as long as can be.

I grew up with vinyl and I'm very happy about that fact that you can still actually get new vinyl mostly on 180 gram discs. Even the biggest music store in town is now selling vinyl but it's only about 5% of the inventory maybe less. Ebay and secondhand stores also gives alot of vinyl options.

In february 2008 I got my Cdx. It had a broken left hinge and electronic isues but thank's to Beoworld members it was up and running rather quickly. It play's pretty good for it's age. 98% of the times Cd's sound good but I noticed Master of Puppets by Metallica being slightly better on original vinyl. My Cdx is in strong competetion with my Beograms for sure. Again it depnds on the format and if some stuff is only aviable on cd well there is not much to do about it.

I have used www.gemm.com many times and have been very satisfied.  I also use www.netsoundsmusic.com in the UK which is also very good.

In the US, I have purchase new vinyl LPs from www.acousticsounds.com.  They have very good reissues especially Decca classical music.

I love vinyl records! 

I read a feature in spin on the Metallica re-issues.

The guy in charge of the re-issues at warner said that they compared the vinyl to the cd's and were so blown away my the vinyl version that they decided to re-master the albums and JUST re-issue them on vinyl. Pretty awesome!

Apparently Sony is thinking of starting to do Vinyl Re-Issues too.

The gist of the story was that vinyl is probably going to outlast CD's (as it did with 8-track, cassette and mini disk too).

Pretty interesting read.

 

For vinyl in the UK I can highly recommend - 

www.stamfordaudio.co.uk

www.diversevinyl.com 

www.htfr.com 

Also, don't dismiss your local HMV - mine has a surprisingly decent range of new, limited edition 7" 45rpm singles.