Re-discovered vinyl

scottpro1969 · Post by **scottpro1969** » Wed May 25, 2005 2:03 am

Since all of the cd technology came about years ago I banished my vinyl records. Just recently I found my collection and blew off the dust to my musical upbringing. It's amazing to me how much just putting a "record" on brings back so many memories.
Hearing the pop and crackle of an album before a song just brings a smile to my face. Guess I'm just old. The sound is actually great too. It's like going back in time. I encourage you all to get your records out again and give them a spin.

Scastles · Post by **Scastles** » Wed May 25, 2005 2:27 am

It's been a while, sometime back (when I still had my turntable) I dragged some discs out and was amazed at what was lost on a CD. You catch every nuance of a song, as it was meant to sound. A lot can be said for old analog recording(before remastering), even along with the pops and scratches and the occasional skip on the records. It was a trip to listen to.

basshawk · Post by **basshawk** » Wed May 25, 2005 3:05 am

I still put a record on the table now and then. From the very first sound when the tonearm touches the record does take you back.

roadrunners · Post by **roadrunners** » Wed May 25, 2005 3:15 am

Im young and I use records Exclusivley......Im even having the record im currently making put on cd and vinyl format

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Wed May 25, 2005 6:15 am

analog is cool ...

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Wed May 25, 2005 6:24 am

I love vinyl and all the memories associated with it...even though some of my 'records' sound at this point like they were engineered by Orville Redenbacher.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Wed May 25, 2005 1:19 pm

I've been buying all the old 60's reissue Stones albums on LP, they sound much better than the CD's. I have a pile of records, all the Beatles and Stones, lots of good jazz and blues and a good turntable with a decent stylus on it, my records sound much better than most of my CD's, more realistic. I have a couple of old half speed master recordings, one Abbey Road and One Steely Dan, Aja, they both blow CD's away. I play this stuff through an old Marantz 2385 240
RMS per channel receiver through 4 large Advents.
Some CD's sound better it depends, but I think LP's sound more realistic than CD's all things being equal.

scottpro1969 · Post by **scottpro1969** » Wed May 25, 2005 4:26 pm

I hadn't had a turntable in at least 15 years, my father-in-law gave me his Bang & Olufsen system. I had never heard of it but it's an awesome system. I was searching for a replacement needle on eBay and the cartridge was going for $160!!!!
The one currently on there is fine but I wanted a backup. "Needle"less to say, I'll wait a while.

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Wed May 25, 2005 4:49 pm

also in the old days you got a 12"x12" artwork with your music purchase ...

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Wed May 25, 2005 5:06 pm

yeah the LP's definitely look a lot better than a CD.
$160.00 isn't that much for a cartridge, get it while you still can. I recently payed about 100.00 for one. B&O stuff was always expensive for what you got, I think you are partially paying for the design, they do look cool though. They are or were kind of like the Bose of Denmark.

expomick · Post by **expomick** » Wed May 25, 2005 6:46 pm

Back in the late 80's, a lot of people dumped their vinyl records and went for the CD devil...which was great, because I (and many others) went to the used record stores and snapped up a lot of these unwanted babies. Most were in very good shape.

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Wed May 25, 2005 6:53 pm

You're right, Bob.

My Thorens TD160 threw in the towel a couple of years ago and I wasn't going to replace it... until I realized the investment (not just in dollar terms) that I had in vinyl. I got a Project 4 with an Ortofon cartridge and they never sounded better through the old Quad 303.

Seems to me there are certain dynamic properties missing on CDs.

Wish I still had the Quad electrostatics, though!

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Thu May 26, 2005 5:30 am

I remember walking into my record store during the late 80's to find out that they had completely replaced all the records with CD's and I didn't even own a CD player at the time, was called Strawberry's. Really lousy place to buy records anyway.

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Thu May 26, 2005 5:41 am

Jeff, good point about the artwork on L.P.'s...it accounted for half my excitement as a youthful music consumer. Especially double albums when you first got 'em home...the whole day I acquired Close To The Edge was like a religious experience. Make that several days...

I guess someone should start a Favorite Album Cover thread...

scottpro1969 · Post by **scottpro1969** » Thu May 26, 2005 6:00 am

Hey Bob,
Do they still have Strawberries in Mass?? I know a lot of them closed about 8 yrs ago and the only one I knew was left for sure was in Medford or Melrose. I agree it was/is a lousy place to buy stuff. Now Towers Records on the other hand had just about anything you wanted, no matter how obscure. At least the one in Boston did.