Getting sucked further and further into the audio vortex. Got an entry-level turntable yesterday (a Pro-Ject Debut III), and my first impressions of the RR 2150's phono stage are pretty cool considering that I haven't owned a turntable in 20 years.

We don't have too many LPs in the apartment (pssst: yet), but I cued up a West-African compilation, Ghana Soundz: Afro-Beat, Funk and Fusion in '70s Ghana, something I'm quite familiar with on CD but had never heard on vinyl. When I played the disc and LP side by side, I was surprised to find that the vinyl really opened up the drum sound. The 3rd Generation Band's "Because of Money" always sounds kinetic, but now it kinda felt like the group was coming off the rails; it seemed a reminder of how radical this music was back in 1973. I think I'm gonna have a lot of fun slowly easing back into LPs—especially well-recorded jazz stuff.