Hi! New member introduction.

[jsengupt]

Hello All!

I am Joydeep but you can call me Joy too. Born and raised in Calcutta in the 80s, my childhood was all about mix tapes and going to my neighbor friend’s home to listen to his massive vinyl collection on Saturday afternoons. Since I left home in 1999 work, travel, temporary accommodation didn’t allow me to focus on having a good hifi. Finally I feel somewhat settled in Berlin and have started rebuilding my music collection.

I found this amazing forum recently and all of you music and music quality enthusiasts which makes me feel home. It’s quite hard for me to get old Indian vinyls unless I visit Kolkata. Hoping to get to know folks here, get suggestions and tips on good record stores, re-releases/prints.

Also, Berlin has amazing record shops to find Western music. Hope to be able to help folks out too when I’m traveling to India if they need anything (reasonable requests )

Lastly, I would like to introduce my setup. I have a Pro-ject debut carbon evo record player with Ortofon 2M blue cartridge connected to Klipsch the fives and a 12” Klipsch subwoofer. As a backup player I have a Marantz CD6007 to listen to CDs of those ridiculously high priced vinyls .

Tata for now

 

[adas]

Hello All!

I am Joydeep but you can call me Joy too. Born and raised in Calcutta in the 80s, my childhood was all about mix tapes and going to my neighbor friend’s home to listen to his massive vinyl collection on Saturday afternoons. Since I left home in 1999 work, travel, temporary accommodation didn’t allow me to focus on having a good hifi. Finally I feel somewhat settled in Berlin and have started rebuilding my music collection.

I found this amazing forum recently and all of you music and music quality enthusiasts which makes me feel home. It’s quite hard for me to get old Indian vinyls unless I visit Kolkata. Hoping to get to know folks here, get suggestions and tips on good record stores, re-releases/prints.

Also, Berlin has amazing record shops to find Western music. Hope to be able to help folks out too when I’m traveling to India if they need anything (reasonable requests )

Lastly, I would like to introduce my setup. I have a Pro-ject debut carbon evo record player with Ortofon 2M blue cartridge connected to Klipsch the fives and a 12” Klipsch subwoofer. As a backup player I have a Marantz CD6007 to listen to CDs of those ridiculously high priced vinyls .

Tata for now

Welcome Joy da , you will find lots kindred spirits amongst all us in this forum.

Regards
Aniket Das

 

[Nikhil]

Welcome to the forum! Glad to have you here.
Berlin is a fantastic place to enjoy music and the arts.



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[ajuvignesh]

Welcome to the forum

 

[hifimaddy]

welcome to the forum

 

[argho]

Welcome

 

[efernand1]

Hello All!

I am Joydeep but you can call me Joy too. Born and raised in Calcutta in the 80s, my childhood was all about mix tapes and going to my neighbor friend’s home to listen to his massive vinyl collection on Saturday afternoons. Since I left home in 1999 work, travel, temporary accommodation didn’t allow me to focus on having a good hifi. Finally I feel somewhat settled in Berlin and have started rebuilding my music collection.

I found this amazing forum recently and all of you music and music quality enthusiasts which makes me feel home. It’s quite hard for me to get old Indian vinyls unless I visit Kolkata. Hoping to get to know folks here, get suggestions and tips on good record stores, re-releases/prints.

Also, Berlin has amazing record shops to find Western music. Hope to be able to help folks out too when I’m traveling to India if they need anything (reasonable requests )

Lastly, I would like to introduce my setup. I have a Pro-ject debut carbon evo record player with Ortofon 2M blue cartridge connected to Klipsch the fives and a 12” Klipsch subwoofer. As a backup player I have a Marantz CD6007 to listen to CDs of those ridiculously high priced vinyls .

Tata for now

Hi,

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[jsengupt]

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome! Do any of you know any thread where people are discussing shops to buy second hand records in Kolkata. Or planning to meetup for listening sessions? I'm going to visit from 28th September to 13th October and keen on buying a few records. I tried the search but couldn't find anything relevant.

 

[Bhaskar Jyoti Talapatra]

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome! Do any of you know any thread where people are discussing shops to buy second hand records in Kolkata. Or planning to meetup for listening sessions? I'm going to visit from 28th September to 13th October and keen on buying a few records. I tried the search but couldn't find anything relevant.

Hello , welcome to our lovely forum. Glad to know that you are a bong guy like me. I am sure you will find records of your choice in kolkata.
Regards

 

[kernelpanicpopcorn]

Glad you mentioned "reasonable requests" OTherwise I have been known to order an extra suitcase worth of stuff from kind souls like you!

 

[Ravi_K]

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome! Do any of you know any thread where people are discussing shops to buy second hand records in Kolkata. Or planning to meetup for listening sessions? I'm going to visit from 28th September to 13th October and keen on buying a few records. I tried the search but couldn't find anything relevant.

Hi Joy!

While I am not aware of any thread as such, being myself new to the forum and still finding my way around; I could maybe point you to someone in Kolkata who may be able to help you out.

I’m sure that you’d know about the couple of street vendors located on Free School Street that sell old and used vinyls; Tarakeshwar Rao Munna is the owner of the one at 18, Free School Street.
If you are around Shahpur/New Alipore, check out Harmonie Audio (who have an extensive vinyl collection for sale. The owner is himself an audiophile and a passionate collector.

Wishing you all the best on your trip to Kolkata!