Though it may be true that some of the recent enthusiasm for vinyl records has waned, there is still serious interest and the technology is advancing (slowly)
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The Vinyl Comeback Is Stalling?
- Thread starter brianrost
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I have a pile of old LPs, some of which never made it to CD (for example: The Roots of Rock'Roll on the Savoy label). I bought a preamp for my Sony turntable, which had been gathering dust--literally--in a closet. Plugged it into my desktop machine, and so far I've converted about half of them to FLAC. They sound just like the record.
PS: I learned about FLAC at something called The King Cake Crypt Redux. If you're into out-of-print jazz, you'll love it.
PS: I learned about FLAC at something called The King Cake Crypt Redux. If you're into out-of-print jazz, you'll love it.
i wish digital streaming media sounded as good as cd/LP. For, it just doesnt.
If it is recorded on anything other than a waxen cylinder, you can absolutely keep your satanic, witchcraft-laden abomination to yourself.
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The reason I sorta went back to vinyl is.......
1. I still have my over-large collection ( yep, I squirrel'd them away)
2. I only buy from a local used record store, where I haunt the "scratch and pop" sections. Most of them sound better than my old ones.
3. Much of what I buy is tough to find any other way.
4. Nostalgia...... Perusing albums, and looking at covers, is something I've loved to do since " Meet the Beatles".
1. I still have my over-large collection ( yep, I squirrel'd them away)
2. I only buy from a local used record store, where I haunt the "scratch and pop" sections. Most of them sound better than my old ones.
3. Much of what I buy is tough to find any other way.
4. Nostalgia...... Perusing albums, and looking at covers, is something I've loved to do since " Meet the Beatles".
I'm completely happy with the convience of streaming, despite the compression, and have long since moved on from any physical format. The thing I'm saddest about is the abandonment of creative album art. I support artists by buying tickets and merch (whoever said bands have crummy merch is right), which was always how rock bands got paid. I'm more interested in up and coming stuff than the average TBer, and most of these people have cheap tickets or are at festivals. If I only listened to old Miles records or whatever, I would maybe feel different.
Not always. Certain labels digitize all of the booklet information as well as the actual music.
And with the increased shipping rates and the horrific Canadian dollar, it would cost me at least $30, for most CDs. And with the amount of new music I buy, that is not happening.
I've been buying vinyl since the '80s, and over the decades have incrementally assembled a system upon which their playback gives me great joy.
I hope that those of you who don't like vinyl never find yourselves so captivated by such pleasures; it's an expensive thing to jump into all at once.
I hope that those of you who don't like vinyl never find yourselves so captivated by such pleasures; it's an expensive thing to jump into all at once.
Well, you don't know me, but we're on a 5-6 month wait for our vinyl.
I couldn't agree more -- and it's why I generally avoid remastered versions except under unusual circumstances, like the (edit: aforementioned, I shoulda read the whole thread) Brendan O'Brien remix of Ten, for example.
Loudness war - Wikipedia
In the 1920’s, cigars were the most popular form of tobacco consumption and in the 90’s there was a “cigar boom” (I know because I got caught up in it). In the 60’s and 70’s vinyl was the most popular form of music on demand consumption and 50 years later experienced a resurgence (got caught and still in that one, too). Maybe, just maybe, kids today will put down their cellphones and game consoles and pick up guitars, basses, and drums…form bands, and do all the things we did fifty years ago.
And get off my lawn.
And get off my lawn.
JazznFunk
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There was a 2-disc version in a digipack that had the *remastered original mix (which still sounds good), and then the totally redone mix AND remaster. The remix opens things up in such a great way that the band really wanted to do in the first place.... much clearer, more nuance to guitar solos, Eddie's vocals.... and does away with the washy reverb that dominated the original record.
Lol, not sure of the intent of your post, but Cuneiform, for one. And I get a lot of their stuff.
I do love vinyl, and occasionally buy a new copy of something, usually some classic, like a really nice pressing. But it's just so expensive, I reserve it for those special things. Otherwise I'm very happy listening to my decades-old records, many of which are pretty thrashed (but I dig that vibe). My 17 year old however, spends a lot more than I do on new vinyl--at around $25 a pop on average.
I wish it were cheaper to press vinyl in small batches. I'd love to make say, ten 12"s of some of my own stuff just to give to people, and to have for myself. But I can never really justify the $.
I wish it were cheaper to press vinyl in small batches. I'd love to make say, ten 12"s of some of my own stuff just to give to people, and to have for myself. But I can never really justify the $.
I have a newish turntable and I enjoy playing classic records in something like the way they were originally heard.
But they do have significant drawbacks, I get what must be an abnormal number that skip right from the jump, and the prices have been increasing steadily with the runaway inflation the rest of the world has seen in the last two years.
But they do have significant drawbacks, I get what must be an abnormal number that skip right from the jump, and the prices have been increasing steadily with the runaway inflation the rest of the world has seen in the last two years.
When I was in SanDiego a decade ago I went to the Casbah to catch a couple of interesting bands and I ended up buying the T-shirt because the guitarist told me they actually make quite a bit more profit on the shirts than the CDs. The Chicano Batman shirt design was actually really good back then, I like it much better than their [This invalid link has been removed]...
Not mp3 which is compressed but definitely a digital source in most cases. From my limited reading the should be mastered differently due to the limitations of vinyl.
