Forget the records, you should be an interior designer.
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Those Kallaxes are just one of the great creations in life, arenāt they?
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Oh mateā¦functional, sturdy and can be easily prettied up.
The cornerstone of any record collection.
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I feel like itās time for an ASMR style YouTube Channel around your vinyl experiences and collection 
In all seriousness, how are you running the speaker cables from the Yamaha to the old speakers ?
Unless you already had some conduit in the walls previously, I canāt see any cables in the pics.
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Thats exactly where I knew I had to nail it in order to really get it over the line with Mrs Doggaā¦ one must not see cablesā¦
Its crude, but for now its working.
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Oh man, you got that so flush I didnāt see it in the pics at all.
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Great result, but this could have turned out very, very badly for you, @Doggatron.
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Yeahā¦sheās a very tolerant woman.
Well I just got back from the shed with about 20 or so records. Five of which were hers. Filled the two main kallaxes up a bit. Mostly mellower stuff. She hates stoner rock. So no fuzz up hereā¦well except for Jimi.
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I love VU Meters on those older Amps.
Always found the vintage silver more pleasing than black.
I would make an exception for a McIntosh though.
It would require me to come across some serious money howeverā¦
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McIntosh amps look incredible. But the money is ridiculous. But yeah. Nothing beats VU meters. My yammy in the shed has them. Which is rare in newer model amps. But they seem to be making a comeback.
Itās clearly a purchase someone makes when money is no issue.
The above Amp is $30k
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The modern yamaha amps (the AS series) are great, but no longer affordable. All have VU meters. I got mine around 2016 or maybe 15 for like $1599 (sold a guitar). Its an AS1100. Which was the entry model in the series. They now go 2nd hand for well into the high 2ks.
But then yamaha scrapped them and bought out new ones. Nearly tripled the price. Even though the changes were minimal. Like a dimmer on the VU meters was one of them. Pretty absurd.
Having said all that, I love my amp (shed one). Especially coz of those beautiful VU meters and their hypnotic dancing carrot sticks.
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VU meters are the duckās nuts.
However, I must confess to being rather partial to a good spectrum analyser too.
My folksā stereo when I was growing up had an equalizer with a spectrum analyser built into it, with a bunch of green and red lights denoting each frequency.
I donāt imagine it had much accuracy but geez it looked greatā¦
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You can get decent looking spectrum analyzers off AliExpress for reasonable $$$
They look pretty cool !
Iām indirectly reminded to ask @mrjezā¦ do you or any of your bandmates own your masters or multitracks?
No, I donāt know where any of that stuff went. Band mates might have something. I did have a master tape in a box I found one time but it had been in a hot shed and only had one song on it so I threw it away. We had a 7-inch on a UK label and I actually contacted them recently to ask what they had, and we only ever sent a CD for them to cut the record from.
If you did have anything in an analogue format (and remixing or remastering was ever a rabbit-warren you wanted to go down), I was going to suggest getting it baked and digitized - especially multi-tracks.
A couple of years ago I had a multi-track reel I recorded of my mateās band digitized. I didnāt bother with baking it (its storage over 25 years was anything but controlled, but it was at least always in the house) - it was just a straight transfer to a hard-drive, and it had held-up remarkably well.
I never got a chance to mix it properly back then - limited studio time - and never got it anywhere near how I heard it in my head. Itās been great fun to go back and mix the songs properly with modern technology. Thereās still limitations (the drummerās wild tempo fluctuations, instruments going in and out of time, my studio inexperience, the lead guitaristās ā¦ummā¦ lifestyle choices, the fact that we only got a chance to run-through each song once because it took so bloody long to mic everything up and check levelsā¦) but itās now a much better representation of what they were like as a bandā¦
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Yeah itād be great to be able to change some levels. As an example, I wanted an organ lead on one song and in the final mix it just sat too low and got drowned by the guitars, and forever irked me. I didnāt know anything about studios and never spoke up or even stuck around for lots of it, Iād love to go back in time with more knowledge and experience. Ugh, some of the vocal performances that went out as a one-and-done cos I was nervous as hell being in the booth and it was punk rock and all.
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