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?
Love them, still buy classic rock from the 70s in used stores.
shareI have a few vinyl records that I have kept even though I don't have a record player. There is a vinyl record store in the city where I live and it's called Strictly Vinyl. That's all they sell. I've donated some of my old vinyls to the store. I don't know what they do with them. I guess some people still play them.
shareCDs all the way for years.
shareOnce a year on what’s called record store day on April 13th many artist release new live collections only on vinyl. On that day the lines to get in the vinyl stores are out the door. The record shop I frequent only has one copy of each title on that sale day and it’s like a mad house.
This year we got:
The Doors at the London Fog
And
Duran Duran as the Lights Go Down
"Duran Duran as the Lights Go Down"
LOL
cue P.T. Barnum
I just checked Amazon and I don't see the extended dance mix of Planet Earth on vinyl. Now THAT's the "money melon."
shareWhat IS on vinyl today is "But Seriously..." by Phil Collins, which IIRC was the first major album NOT released on vinyl...
shareI do believe I have a 12” single of planet earth with the extended version but I’ll check it.
shareI don't even know where to find it on CD or download...
shareI’ll check when I get home.
shareOk. What I have is Planet Earth (night version) and run time is over 6 minutes. This is an awesome dance mix from 1981 that I have on 12” vinyl single. I don’t think this version is offered on any other format. Discogs link is below:
https://www.discogs.com/Duran-Duran-Planet-Earth-Night-Version/release/133311
I have a huge collection of vinyl:
I agree with the OP, I actually don’t think vinyl sounds better I just find it to be a more fun medium over digital.
I’m probably a bit of an outsider preference wise though, the bulk of my collection is Disco, Funk and Soul stuff from the 70s and 80s.
Good stuff man! I have a good portion of that also.
I’ve got a good collection of post punk and new wave from 70-80’s like:
Smiths
Cure
Siousxie
Blondie
Soft Cell
Joy Division
Sex Pistols
Depeche Mode
Bowie
Bauhaus
Japan
Human League
I have complete collections for Many of those.
I think that genre is probably in a minority here also. :)
Vinyl CAN sound better, if you have the sound system to support it. Few do.
Why can it sound better? It can sound better because most, but not all, digital media delimit the frequency response of their recordings to 20 to 20,000 cycles, the audible range of human hearing. When JVC and Sony jointly created the CD format, they decided not to record ant frequencies below or above that range. Audiophiles birched that CDs sounded “flat,” and the world laughed at the audio snobs—until psychoacoustic engineers discovered that humans may not
HEAR frequencies above or below that range, but we can still FEEL them, and that feeling influences our apprehension of the recording. Analog records every damn frequency that it can, including the inaudible but perceptible ones. Analog gives more information than digital, except for Superaudio CD and DVD-Audio formats, of which most folks have never heard, but which are in my library.
Not for nothing, but vinyl has been outselling CDs the past few years.
"vinyl has been outselling CDs the past few years"
Of course. Everyone buys digital downloads, or subscribes to a service. I've probably purchased fewer than 10 CDs in the last 12 years (bought my first iPod in 2007.)
I remember a buddy of mine paid $20.00 (!!!!) in 1982 for an "audiophile" LP of the Death Wish 2 Soundtrack (Jimmy Page.)
When CD's were first released people complained that the packaging was wasteful and harmful to the environment. For those who weren't around, CD's were packaged in cardboard that was the width of the CD but the height of an LP (so the music stores could display them in the same bins as the LPs) So really less than half of the packaging was necessary.
I suppose no one's complaining about vinyl today because it's really not a lot of product selling...