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Vinyl Is Selling So Well That It’s Getting Hard to Sell Vinyl...vinyl records are now the music industry’s most popular and highest-grossing physical format. Getting them manufactured, however, is increasingly a challenge.
NY Times ^
| October 21, 2021
| Ben Sisario
Posted on 10/24/2021 5:01:40 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
I might be able to find an old scratchy copy of In-a-gatta-da-vida. What do you think it’s worth?
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:25:56 PM PDT
by
hardspunned
(former GOP globalist stoogese)
To: DoodleBob
I've had a serious love of music...just about every kind of music...since I was a kid. I've spent tons of $$$ on equipment and LPs. But with the advent of CDs,CD burners and my area's library network I've amassed a collection of about 6,000 songs,all in perfect fidelity (with no pops),most of which I love. And I can play them in my car and on my phone!
LP's? No thanks! CDs are one bit of modernity that I love.
To: DoodleBob
Nice.... played with one of those when I was a teenager and first heard The James Gang - Walk Away among other great bands of that era.
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:32:00 PM PDT
by
LastDayz
(A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
To: DoodleBob
I've still got vinyl, tape (2 track Teac) and tubes..to go along with my compact discs and digital audio. I can tell the difference between digital and good quality vinyl (even though my hearing is not what it used to be) sometimes you see in you mind where the different instruments are on the stage imo better sound stage and sound imaging..the tubes add warmth and may actually be less accurate but more pleasing to the ear..they also help heat the house in winter and give off a pleasing red-orange glow.
To: DoodleBob
Now you tell me! I gave away my collection of 500+ vinyl records to a church donation place, 10 years back.
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:34:08 PM PDT
by
entropy12
(President Trump was the best president in my life time of 81 years and counting..)
To: DoodleBob
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:34:15 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
To: GingisK
...and to think I tossed my Garrard Linear Tracking turntable.You too? I moved and gave away all my vinyl and a linear tracking turntable made by Pioneer coupied from a more expensive unit. Later sold my 4 chan discrete open reel which I still regret.
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:34:17 PM PDT
by
Ben Hecks
(Don't Google it - Duck it!)
To: DoodleBob
Duh NY Times, vinyl went dead so pressing companies went bye bye.
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:34:37 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(I'll wear a mask when Dr. Fraudchi shuts the hell up.)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:35:05 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(I'll wear a mask when Dr. Fraudchi shuts the hell up.)
To: Vision
I went Beta,VHS,Laserdisc,DVD,Bluray and now 4K. Lots of $$$!
I had a similar journey with music...LP,reel-to-reel,cassette,CD,SACD and DVD-Audio.
To: poinq
Re: 70’s crappy vinyl. I think that the 1973 oil shortage spurred the degrading of the vinyl used for records. 45s from the 60s are practically indestructible - although they were so hard they sometimes cracked.
When they went to a cheaper formula, not only did they warp, but the grooves turned into garbage after a few plays. Radio stations had a heck of a time trying to keep up with cue-burned records. Something with a quiet beginning, after being cue-ed up on a turntable a couple of times, had a terrible scratchy sound. Certain companies (Columbia, I’m looking at you) were particularly poor quality.
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Same. The hipsters can go back to scratches, skips and hiss.
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:39:15 PM PDT
by
ArcadeQuarters
(Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
To: Gay State Conservative
How’d you keep the jewel case hinges from breaking, eventually causing CDs to scatter hither and yon? Hated that problem and it prevented me from continuing to purchase CDs after being a reasonably avid vinyl LP collector.
To: DoodleBob
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:43:07 PM PDT
by
Bubba_Leroy
(Dementia Joe is Not My President!)
To: DoodleBob
Now that takes me back. The reel-to-reels.
Used to tape hours of music right off the radio onto those reels. In particular Casey Kasem's Top 40 and the Dr. Demento Show. As well as something called the King Biscuit Flower Hour (and for years I thought it was "King Biscuit Flour Hour").
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:43:29 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(I am 1 day away from outliving Sebastian Cabot)
To: Revel
I hope not. I still have 8TSD. There are some songs I uncontrollably flinch expecting the “click”.
To: aMorePerfectUnion
Digital only for me too. 😀😊👍
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:51:03 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(USAF ATCer, Retired. Father of USAF pilot. ATCers & pilots, the quintessential elements of aviation)
To: ArcadeQuarters
Tell me, though, that you did not appreciate the comforting sound of bacon cooking on the grill to be found in the backing track of this tune:
Robert Plant
Your Ma Said You Cried In Your Sleep Last Night
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eo-e8rZFjKk
To: one guy in new jersey
I always treated my LP's as if they were delicate,ditto my CD's.I have them all categorized (title,artist,etc) in an Access file and stored on a great storage shelf.
To: DoodleBob
I still cherish my Hendrix ‘Electric Ladyland’ double LP with the naked ladies on the cover by Polydor, hehehe
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:54:35 PM PDT
by
CivilWarBrewing
(Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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