Anyone Collect or Still Listen to Vinyl?

[Luke]

Out of the hundreds of lp's I own, less than 3% have that "pfffft. pffft" sound with them. And these records are olllllllllllllld. A clean needle, a decent player, and keeping care of the albums keep the sound at CD quality.

My copy of Paul's Boutique sounds even clearer than the cd and the thing is decades old. All records need are tender loving care, and a wipe with microfiber after a play. I treat mine like a comic book...gently. Like seducing a date you treat every part of her as if one mistake could ruin the entire thing.

[Nemoide]

I have two kazoo records.

I have to know. Is that a band name or do you own two records where all the music is performed with kazoo's???? Either way I'm impressed

Music played with kazoos! One is the "Temple City Kazoo Orchestra" and the other is "The Kazoos Brothers."

Sometimes I feel like I'm somehow the biggest nerd and biggest hipster at the same time?

[BoneSnapDeez]

Here are my record players, one modern and one old:



My small collection of mid-90s to early-2000s hardcore punk records:

Honestly, CDs are my preferred format. I generally will only buy a vinyl record if I can't find the same album on CD. Same goes for cassettes.

[dsheinem]

keeping care of the albums keep the sound at CD quality.

To your ears, maybe. Science would disagree, per the very nature of analog vs digital media.

[noiseredux]

Like seducing a date you treat every part of her as if one mistake could ruin the entire thing. I know form experience dude.

[Forlorn Drifter]

keeping care of the albums keep the sound at CD quality.

To your ears, maybe. Science would disagree, per the very nature of analog vs digital media.

You just have to ruin the fun, don't you?

[Valkyrie-Favor]

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

CDs have twice the sample rate, though.

[aaron]

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

[AppleQueso]

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

Dio

[dsheinem]

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.