I still have the more than 600 albums i purchased from the ealry 70’s till the mid 80’s. Some are in great shape. Of course i’ve got nothing to play them on!!!
Well we don’t have that many. Just some faves from years gone by. Discs are excellent and covers not too bad
I miss the days of going to Peaches.
I see players at Walmart of all places, and a small selection of vinyl. If you are a connoisseur of vinyl any thrift store usually has hundreds on the cheap.
It’s weird listening to 5-6 songs then tending the turntable -again.
But I’m a fan of vinyl.
Have been for a long time.
Why anyone wants to go back to scratchy , skippy, hissing plastic is beyond me. I was thrilled the day in 87 I got my first cd player.
I can fill room of my house with 2000 vinyl albums or I can fit them all on an iPhone, put them in my pocket and listen anytime and anywhere.
I’ll go with my iPod/iPhone.
The way we use electronics was pioneered by General Motors in the 1920’s for cars. Its called “planned obsolescence”
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Mr K (not the one on this forum) has an old crank Victorola his parents-in-law bought when they were married back in the 1920s. It has the collection of wax (they were mostly wax then) records that came with it.
One thing about vinyl records is that they can be played with purely mechanical players, no wiring or current needed. Remember that Ray Bradbury story where the guys are sitting there at the end of the world listening to symphonies on a crank record player?
I still have some vinyl records but they’re mostly not collectibles. Personally I think vinyl has better sound quality and is less degradable than other media.
This is my listening room attached to my fairly new shop building. I put my construction on hold when I went in for heart surgery. I just started up again.
I have about 3,500 records and it is my main “stop thinking about politics” hobby.
I sold hi-fi back in the 70’s and early 80’s. Some of my equipment was purchased in the 70’s and still going strong.
Wherever there is friction there is noise. There is friction on vinyl. I still use CDs, MP3s, streaming, anything but vinyl, at the max sampling rate.
My 13 year old granddaughter got into vinyl the year before last. She thinks it’s cool. :)
Vinyl is cool. And it can sound very good.
Vinyl is bad when it gets hot as it warps.
I have a few pioneer cd writers from back when they made them
I have recorded lots of vinyl and it sounds exactly the same.
Mastering has a lot to do with how a medium sounds.
Many people have said that my cd recordings of half speed master lps sound far better than the retail cd version.
But i have heard lots of crap mastered records too.
Early 70s vintage Seeburg (restored by me), Dual, Garrard, Thorens - all working. Nothing like vinyl.
At least a half dozen CD players have gone to the shiteheap...but of course I re-bought most of my favorite LPs on CD as well...
Personally, I prefer MP3s, because my 65-year-old ears can’t tell the difference.
I also saved money buying a big screen TV, since I can’t tell the difference between 4K, 1080p, and a 30-year-old VCR. I wear trifocals. I only need them to see things far away, up close, or in between.
I bought a nice little record player a couple of years ago. Recently, I have purchased brand new 33 rpm LPs.
I love being able to not only play our old collection, but to be able to add to it.
I play maybe two albums a week.
The day after Gary Rossington died I spun Skynyrd's first album and my 21 ear-old daughter said: "hey, they're pretty good!"
Kid's got taste.
As one who established and maintained a small record label dedicated to brass, jazz, and blues music from 1997 to 2018, this subject is of intense interest to me.
The label is more or less mothballed for now. I have phone calls to make and work to do if it will ever come back. We’ll see. I’m getting old. But I will never regret the past, present, or future when it comes to good recorded music, no matter what format.