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Jerome Wrote:What do you make of the reappearance of vinyl? Is this just a fad or is this going to grow? I believe either Bowie's latest album or Floyd are at the top. They now have clubs in Ireland where young people are sitting down and listening to WHOLE albums in one sitting. Seems to be quite popular at the moment. This week in Dublin 'The Wall' was examined in minute detail. Just heard this on a radio show and the comments from the younger folk are quite interesting - they are starting to see these albums as movies rather than the 3 minute tracks they currently have on their playlist. Comments anyone?
i love the idea of a 'record club'...sounds similar to a 'book club' or a 'movie club' thing whereby people watch/read the same book/movie then analyze it n a group...
i think i would join one of those if they had them here...or better still, i should start one!
as for vinyl...
yes it is regaining popularity worldwide...
probably because it is a 'retro' thing and the whole retro clothing/furniture culture is now turning to music...
and speaking of 'retro'.......
i even read somewhere a while ago that young people in Melbourne/Sydney are now buying the daily newspaper and reading it because of the novelty/retro value of it and sales of daily newspapers have started to increase for the first time in over a decade.
My God, if things keep going backwards we'll all have landline phones and VHS in a few years....LOL
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Landline telephones can never go away. If you have a pacemaker heart implant, you can't use a cellphone or you'll kill yourself--you need a landline. VHS should all be recycled and never return--it was "kludge", interim technology.
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i never said "they'd all gone away".....
i said "if things keep going backwards we'll all have landline phones"
they experts said in the mid 1980s "vinyl is dead,they'll stop being made by the end of the decade"...it didnt happen, a few of us still bought them and theyre making a resurgance now...
as will "landline phones"....
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My comment about landlines was about a situation--why was it taken personally? If anything, it was about why you should never take the collective "wisdom" of The Experts about trends to heart but instead use your own judgement.
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You cannot beat the depth and resonnance of a good quality vinyl pressing on a decent turntable, with stylus and cartridge to match. Unfortunately, good pressings have been few and far between and, long before CDs appeared, I was sick of surface noice, static, warping, manufacturing defects, scratches from offcuts left in the bag and just about everything else. CDs and digital recordings lack warmth, I agree, but give them to me any day. My hearing is not what is was anyway, so even Mp3s are okay by me (as long as they are 320 kbps). I say all of this as a person with a £200 JVC direct drive, quartz lock turntable with an Ortofon cartridge (1981 prices).
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Here's an interesting article on how to find, choose, buy and maintain LPs: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/techno...ecord.html
A list from 5+ years ago on audiophile labels of all genres.: http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles...tas-197-1/
I only scanned briefly--there's bound to be more and equally helpful stuff out there.
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I've got a D4 Discwasher for my LPs. I bought it in the Tottenham Court Road in London, over thirty years ago. It still works. I also use a Zerostat anti-static gun which still works too (it's also good for polyester trousers).
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Big Ears Wrote:I've got a D4 Discwasher for my LPs. I bought it in the Tottenham Court Road in London, over thirty years ago. It still works. I also use a Zerostat anti-static gun which still works too (it's also good for polyester trousers).
Per reviews on a sales site, the old D4 Discwashers were indeed the best *, but have suffered cheapening design defects over the years. The current better is a Stanton VC-1. The Zerostat is also a wise choice.
http://www.needledoctor.com/Stanton-VC-1-Vinyl-Cleaner
http://www.needledoctor.com/Milty-Zerostat-Gun
This sales Site is presented for info and reviews only--where you buy them is, natch, your own business.
* If you can find one that's guaranteed to be the older model, buy it. The fluid hasn't changed.
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I am surprised that the D4 is still available, and disappointed that it is now being criticised for poor quality. They must have been bought out. One person on the Hoffman site said it damaged the print on one of his record labels!
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/di...989/page-2
Cleaning is not a problem restricted to vinyl. I recently bought a used CD and washed it with water, but there were some splash marks that I could not remove. I haven't tried descaler in case in melts the CD! I once read a funny article where someone said he had heard that you could repair scratched CDs with toothpaste, so he tried it on an item in his collection. He found that, not only did it fail to work, it also made his CD smell of mint.
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(This post was last modified: 09-02-2015, 01:03 by jazzboCR.)
Another reason to accumulate/ collect vinyl--there's a ton of stuff out there, 45's most particularly, that may never make it to CD (unless you count some obscuro comp. accumulation-of-artists-in-a-style disc). Here are 2 prime examples, using the same tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfo6svmfKQQ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HIc5OPBLKQ << these folks had a good if short career.
I don't look for this stuff to make a point--IT finds ME.
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