I've got a small collection of them.
I don't actually think the sound is massively superior to a good digital recording. There's just something about holding a record in your hand, looking at the artwork, taking it in. I guess I just like to have a physical copy of some of my favorite albums.
What's your opinion on vinyl? Think it sounds better? Don't care?
I have a few Steve Martin stand-up albums on vinyl. They're like from the early 80's at latest, maybe late 70s.
Vinyl is fantastic because it's analog, like sound... But it needs a better medium. The vinyl wears down.
I've long since gone all digital. But it is quite amazing the status of analog equipment today. $100,000 turntables, $20,000 tonearms, $10,000 cartridges. Ok, that's the very top, but there is just a vast selection at lower price points, so the stuff is selling. CDs may have almost killed analog sales 30 years ago, but sure and steady it has been coming back.
https://www.whathifi.com/features/10-worlds-most-expensive-turntables
Yes analog is coming back and I have the patent application to prove it.
shareFor me its mostly fueled by nostalgia, I guess. Really the difference in sound quality isn't that great. Records do have kind of a grittier sound that really suits some music, like the Ramones. I like my little record collection, too, actually having something that's a physical object, not just 1s and 0s in my phone or computer.
shareI have a few hundred vinyl records from the 60s to the 80s, it's a bit of everything (Prince, Billy Joel, ACDC, Queen, MJ, Stones...)
The liner notes and artwork are very appealing, the sound is neither better nor worse than digital, it's just 'different,' a bit noisier and not as polished
I rely more on FM and satellite radio for music but spinning the vinyl has a nostalgic charm
Cool. That was a great era of music!
shareI really feel like an old crank sometimes...but new pop and rock music is lousy!
shareHow about that Billie Eilish kid? She's got some talent. Kinda like a new Selena Gomez, but with an interesting Grunge-Emo-Enya blended into the mix.
shareI'm not aware of her
I can tolerate Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift and a few of those other pretty girls...I feel like real rock and good pop are dead though:(
I’m a baaaaaad, guyyyyy.
shareI have a huge collection of vinyl and it’s my number one hobby. I have dual turntables with a mixer so the bulk of my collection is 12” singles but I do collect sound tracks and albums as well. I’ve found vinyl gems in resale shops for .50 and Ive also paid over 100.00 for certain ones also.
I love old mix tapes too.
I saved a few of my favourite albums on vinyl. They're in storage. I have a copy of the Beatles bootleg album! It's probably in terrible shape since I played it a lot.
shareI have about 3000 albums and 10000 singles on vinyl. I believe that records are to be looked at as well as listened to. Some of the stuff from the 70s had some super album covers (eg Alice Cooper - Schools Out, that folded out into a school desk with a lid), plus all the coloured vinyls and picture discs (Styx - Paradise Theater had a laser etched disc).
As for sound quality, vinyl is warmer imho.
It sounds better, since CDs and everything else (except lossless) are compressed. I don't like the crackel sound much, though.
When I bought my first record, 1995, they were going out of style, and CDs were coming, but I couldn't afford a CD Player. I had a tape player, but I hated FF'ing and Rewinding, especially when many of my tapes were things I'd record from a radio station when I'd go to my grandmas.
I'm actually looking at many records, but most of mine are comedy, and most of them are Mort Sahl, some George Carlin.
Interesting thing about cassette tapes: They're fully analog music. Expensive high-quality tapes are as good as a vinyl record, don't pop, and I think there are tape decks out there designed to keep the tapes as new as possible for as long as possible by reducing physical contact with the tape, good surfaces for when it does touch, and a reader head that doesn't affect the magnetic particles on the tape.
shareI had a ta[e case full of DJ mix tapes from the early 90's and only a couple of them were starting to distort. Unfortunately I lost most of them in a flood a few years ago.
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