I guess a lot of people have never had contact with a record player. At our poker game last week I found it amazing to watch one of the players attempt to change the record and not have a clue how to use John's turntable. I feel so old!

Tee hee... an astrophysicist mate of mine once said to me "I know how CD players work: that's obvious. But how on earth do record players work?"

He was very close to completely disbelieving that they worked in stereo, and his expression when another friend rigged up an unamplified stereo record player using a stick, a sewing-needle, and two cones of paper mounted at 90 degrees, can only be described as "gobsmacked".

Peter