Anyone Collect or Still Listen to Vinyl?

[flojocabron]

I collect vinyl as well.

from Led Zeppelin to the Commodores if the price is right I'll buy it.

most of us that grew up in the eighties had a some vinyl in the home.

I as well have collected records for along time since I was a kid

I still don't know much about older music, so I try to find popular and mainstream music

and if you're lucky you can still find music for less than a dollar

I still use my moms old record player. it's pretty old but it still works

a lot of my aunts and uncles are impressed that l have CCR on vinyl

they have a pretty neat nostalgia trip whenever I play their favorite old music

[Nyukki]

Don't collect anymore, though me and a friend back home used to DJ in school. I would buy mainly 80's/90's Hip Hop and Reggae/Ragga, he would get Jungle and early Drum n Bass. Between us we have several hundred records, weren't mega serious.

Sold my decks ages ago but still have all the vinyl. Got a USB turntable for Christmas last year so plan on one day digitising the lot.

[MulishaSoldier929]

posting this listening to my heaven & hell LP right now.

Dio

Dio has rocked.... for a long, long time...... But now its time for him to pass the torch.....
He has songs of wildebeests and angels... He has soared on the wings of a demon....

[fvgazi]

I wouldn't say I'm 'collector', but I have a couple of hundred records; mostly of friend's bands or thing's I've picked up on tour or whatever. On certain records the audio quality difference is quite noticeable from the mp3 counterpart (320). I have nothing against cds besides when cases break.

[Hobie-wan]

It's technically not vinyl, but I also started collecting 78s recently. I don't have the ability to play them, but they seem really interesting. Stuff from the Philippines, Japanese-language recordings from Hawaii, old-time boogie-woogie... I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO LISTENING TO THEM AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE!

The record player/tuner I had as the hand me down as a little kid had speed settings for 16 and 78 as well. I'm trying to remember the brand, but I believe the built in turntable bit was made by BSR if that helps. Look for an older combo unit like that. Oddly it also had a 1/4 inch jack so you could plug in your electric guitar.

CDs have twice the sample rate, though.

Analog recording doesn't have a sample rate. It is continuous, thus being analog.

[Forlorn Drifter]

It's not a matter of analog vs digital. If analog signals could be stored without any degradation, they would actually be superior.

Sure they would be but they can't be, since transferring, creating, and playing degrades the recording. Physical/analog means a physical exchange of matter takes place...in rough terms that means that some matter is taken off of a record, tape, etc. and transferred to a device that decodes it into audio...that doen't happen on a CD, which is read digitally, and which won't suffer any loss in audio fidelity over time simply due to it being played.

Now it only seems that much more appropriate to buy metal on vinyl. The whole basis of being able to listen to the music is the music self deprecating for your satisfaction. Its committing itself pain and suffering for you, the sadistic bastard you are. That's so brutal... its like deep, and metaphorical and shit.

[SteveyMajors]

I bought tons of vinyl in college. I still buy some, but new vinyl has become prohibitively expensive, at least around me. Fortunately, my current tastes have led me to exploring a lot of 50s and 60s pop, and those records are dirt cheap used.

[Michi]

Anyone else drink the vinyl kool aid yet or want to?

Hey, it's a retro gaming forum... of course there's vinyl enthusiast here!

And Laserdisc! Don't forget those of us who have Laserdisc.

Here at home what we used to call the 'computer room' is now slowly becoming my 'room of obsolete technology'

[dogman91]

Aside from nostalgia/novelty, I've never really understood the appeal from an audio standpoint. The artists didn't (usually) create the music with random fuzz and pops in mind, records degrade over time, they aren't "warm" in the same way that high end analog tape is, etc. The vinyl I own is stuff I can't get elsewhere, bought due to novelty/price, or collector's items of bands I like.

I'm not an expert, but I know a lot of vinyl sounds a crap ton better than their CD counterparts a lot of the time if they are cut from an analog source. The analog to digital converters back in the 80's for these CD issues were not quite there really with the technology, so course people with high end turntable setups would say the "vinyl" sounds better. It really depends on what the source material is. Of course none of this helps if you have a setup that would "fuzz" and "crackle" in the first place; it would only "distort" as other people are saying if your setup is super cheap. Also a lot of the time you'd be surprised how first pressing vinyl issues can beat out the latest audiophile CD direct from the master tape, or even LP of a remaster from the master tape. It seems to me vinyl preserves audio (from degrading) at least better than some tape, just btw.

[dsheinem]

It really depends on what the source material is...It seems to me vinyl preserves audio (from degrading) at least better than some tape, just btw.

Of course - I agree on both of these points. BUT given the same source material and same quality equipment to put that recording to media, the CD will be a more faithful representation of what happened in the studio for a longer period of time.