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So...Vinyl...who's into it?

#41
tangentmusic said:
Agreed. Snaps, crackles, pops and all.
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I'm going to be pedantic and say for music it's probably paper (tadpoles and telegraph poles) on acid-free paper or clay tablets.

For audio it's another matter. One option would be to continually transfer good digital recordings to newer technologies over time, with lots of checksumming to avoid bitrot. Whether you'd want to encode at a higher level than humans can detect over good reproduction technology (16bit, 44.1kHz) is another matter, but if you have the space it would make sense to in case there are things in the recordings that cannot be heard but might be worth investigating academically in some point in the future.
 
#42
I still have a couple hundred LPs from days of old. I've also bought a few records in the past few years, generally limited-edition stuff on Record Store Day (which is coming up this year in a week and a half). However, my old (and crappy) turntable has pretty much given up the ghost, so I need to bite the bullet and finally pony up for a good one.
 
#44
GregC said:
I still have a couple hundred LPs from days of old. I've also bought a few records in the past few years, generally limited-edition stuff on Record Store Day (which is coming up this year in a week and a half). However, my old (and crappy) turntable has pretty much given up the ghost, so I need to bite the bullet and finally pony up for a good one.
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Ebay isn't a bad source for decent turntables.
 
#45
I got into it about 15 months ago. I started out with a Pro-ject turntable hooked up to my tv soundbar. It sounded OK but the upgrade bug got to me. I went through a couple of different receivers and speakers. Over the past 2-3 months I've done a complete overhaul of my system. I got a Rega turntable over the weekend. I have the Pro-ject for sale in the classifieds if anyone is interested. It's good just not as good as the RP6 I just picked up.
 
#46
I bought a lot of vinyl in the last 2 or 3 years before I finally took the plunge on CDs. I don 't even own a turntable now, but I still dig through any pile of used records I run across. So far I've managed to restrain myself from hitting the local record shops that have opened in the last few years.

Several years ago my wife started frequenting Half Price Books, which had a lot of good vinyl at the time. One time, I ran across 3 copies of Centerfield by John Fogerty. Normally I wouldn't have given it much thought, especially since I had already found a very old pressing of of Morrison Hotel, with everything, even the inner sleeve, in pristine condition. That was already money I shouldn't have spent.

Just in case, though, I figured I'd check the track listings, on the off chance one of them was the pre-lawsuit version with Zanz Cant Danz. Much to my surprise, that's exactly what the first one was. I had to check the other 2 to make sure I wasn't remembering wrong. Needless to say, the Doors album went back in the stacks and Centerfield came home with me.

That's one I like to show off, but the ones that mean the most to me are from my dad's jazz collection. He was killed in a car accident when I was 16, and thanks to my dysfunctional memory (sometimes Asperger's Syndrome sucks), I don't really even have a picture of him in my head. In fact, I have almost no good memories left from my childhood. Most of the ones I do have are related to music, and Dad was a jazz fanatic.

One day, when I was about 11 or 12, he put on Time Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet. From the first drum beat of Take Five, I was mesmerized. It took me decades to really appreciate jazz, but hearing that album the first time was like a revelation. Blue Rondo A la Turk is one of my favorite songs to this day.

Besides his Brubeck albums, I also ended up with A Love Supreme, and Miles Davis In Europe. I think my sister has the Chet Baker and Louis Armstrong (and his Hot Five) albums. I also have his 45 of Kansas City (and Stone Fox) by James Brown and The Famous Flames.
 
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#47
I have built up a modest collection of 27 (plus on on pre-order) after I bought 3 records while on holiday. Most of it's death metal, but I have some other more listenable records too.
I don't think my great grandad would approve of the music his turntable is being used to produce nowadays :p
 
#48
I grew up with vinyl and have a modest collection from my childhood of stuff (Duran Duran, Men At Work, Survivor Eye Of The Tiger) but when I started getting a little money cassettes were taking over. Now I've went back and bought a bunch of used vinyl and I actually found a huge collection in a beach house that we were renting that the owners said I could have. A bunch of 70's stuff..Allmans, Boston, Foghat, Steely Dan...etc.

And I just realized something. This past Saturday I bought a new vinyl record. Probably the first new vinyl I have bought since 1983. I picked up Jason Isbell's Southeastern on 180 gram vinyl!

I have a modest Denon turntable and don't get to play records often. I keep all my vinyl stored with my huge collection of laserdiscs. Seriously.
 
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My collection's been slowly growing since I first got into vinyl half a year ago. Just recently bought Cage the Elephant's "Melophobia"
 
#50
I just listed an original owner home in Huntington Woods and the owner had ALL the 1st release Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass albums. I am on a H-A kick right now but, one of their heirs took 'em all.

Excellent condition, original paper A & M sleeves. Clean vinyl. Bummer.

I do have Fragile with The Book as I have the Dark Side of The Moon posters & stickers and the Quadrophenia album & book and those postcards that came with the Stones' Exile on Main Street. I love those things about records.
 
#51
Another vinyl fan here. Been hauling hundreds of records through various moves, never could part with them. They just sound... Good, right somehow, imo.

Playback device is a lowly Technics 1200 Mk 2, with a Stanton 500 cartridge. Nothing fancy at all, but has served me well over the years, along with a Sony receiver I need to replace, and speakers that sound ok, but could be improved on with minimal effort.

Not the ideal system, is what I'm saying. But hey, at least I can play my vinyl. :)
 

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