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#161
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I’ll stick with buying used…
 
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#164
our local music store never stopped selling vinyl.. yeah, there was a time when the vinyl section shrank to just a few bins when CD's came along, but some new releases were there all along. If the owner didn't have what I was looking for, and it was being pressed to vinyl, he'd order it from Europe or wherever it was available. Today, there are only a couple bins of CD's, and the rest is vinyl again, and business is good. He also dealt with LaserDiscs and other specialty/collector formats, but LD's pretty much died out in the early/mid 2000's. He still orders whatever is available in whatever format the customer is looking for, and sells players for all of them, too. Hell, he even sells iTunes cards from time to time, lol
 
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#166
Whale guy said:
View attachment 4413574 I'm about to show my age. It is probably made by Gerrard. For those of you who are admirably young, Gerrard was one of several really crappy turntable manufacturers.
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Oddly enough, Garrard was considered a top brand at the time along with Dual and ELAC/Miracord. They sold record changers, you could stack up 6 LPs or 45s and they would play one after another. Tried playing your 45s on your Rega lately? They were only considered crappy by audiophiles. Truly crappy was the BSR mini-changers with ceramic cartridges that roamed the earth in millions of cheap stereo systems.

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When Pioneer went mass market pushing component systems with belt drive and direct drive single play turntables, the rest of the audio manufacturers went that way and changers started to vanish from the market along with the big hime consoles. Integrated AM/FM, turntable and tape deck all-in-one units soldiered on for decades. I've seen those coming back, and I don't mean Crosley stuff.
 
#167
brianrost said:
Funny to hear mention of Regas here, never thought they would go mass market.
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Probably because they continued producing turntables while almost everyone else (even Technics) stopped making them. When the vinyl revival started, Regas were readily available, and this, in addition to the excellent sound and design at many different price points, has catapulted Rega into the mainstream.
 
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#171
svlilioukalani said:
I recently played a CD for my wife, then played the same song on a record. She was stunned by how much nicer and warmer the record sounded. Sure they are old technology, and a pain to use; but they sound better than CD’s. Now, some here will not notice any difference between vinyl and digital. But some here on Talk Bass feel there Squire Affinity bass sound better than a Mike Lull bass.

Listening to records is more of an experience. Ya don’t just track through like your on an I-Pod. The music industry forced digital music upon us before it was ready. Digital is better now than 20 years ago. If you were doing studio work back then you would know what I’m talking about. Vinyl disappeared because the music industry phased it out. Not because digital was better. Although 30 years later is has now caught up.

The bottom line is vital sounds really nice. It is A different experience listening to an album. More vinyl sold than CD’s last year. Guess the emperor is putting his old clothes back on.
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Record sales are up because of middle class affluence and nostalgia, not quality. They are a pain in the butt to maintain, expensive, heavy, terrible for the environment, and are guaranteed to degrade over time. A record will never sound as good as the first time you listen to it.
The frequency response is different because of the pits and groves having a limit to frequency extension. Warm, yes. Nice is subjective.
CD sales are still higher in total than records, but there is more of an increase in records. So that's a deceptive piece of information.
However, CD sales are stagnant because of two factors.
One, the largest portion of music listeners have lead ears and couldn't tell the difference between CD, vinyl, and a 128k MP3, so why not use streaming? It's cheap and requires no additional equipment or physical media.
Two, the CD format is limited and older now and should have been replaced by hi rez digital formats or SACD/DVD-A, but see reason 1.
 
#172
is it made from alder/ash/brazilian rosewood:D. The look of that turntable isn't bad really, except the huge rubber band drive and the fact its way overpriced. I sold most of my vinyl, but still have some worthy enough, to spin on that...if i were interested.
 
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Consumer-grade vinyl playback systems produce audio that is worse than its digital equivalent, but higher-end gear produces audio that is noticeable better.

Source: all we play in our house are records and CDs, but then again my living room is acouatically treated and I have gradually upgraded my audio gear over the last 35 years, so I know what I like and I stick to that.
 
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#179
LPs are more fun, for some people, me included. There’s a whole ritual involved, and the jackets are a whole category of art and literature, but there is definitely a nostalgia-driven component. I don’t think they sound better, and I doubt that many people could even hear a difference minus pops and scratches.

That said, i like having practically anything and everything right in my pocket.
 

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