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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.

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.

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.

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

analog is cool ...

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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...

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.