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17-07-2014, 18:48
(This post was last modified: 17-07-2014, 19:06 by gryphon.)
I have spent the last two weeks servicing and resetting up my vinyl engine and somehow it has lead me back to believing that playing vinyl is an experience second to none..........Digital sources can be exact, tuneful and precise but somehow, the ritual of taking a piece of vinyl out of its sleeve, placing it on a record deck, spinning it and lowering the stylus into the first groove is just so organic. Even thougn, you get the odd pop and crackle it is still a wonderful experience. The sound somehow is warmer and more intimate, you feel so much a part of the process. Handling the cover, reading the lyrics, smelling the cardboard and the plastic, watching the record spin round ........somehow digital sources just don't have this satisfaction no matter what.
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Vinyl is the best! I think music sounds better on vinyl! Plus you can use the sleeve as a poster!!
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It is interesting to note that around me in NL and Germany many shops now have a small vinyl section and companies are repressing classic albums in limited runs with quite a few added extras. New issues are also appearing as are albums pressed on sets of 45s to obtain maximum quality.
I notice also there is a reappearance of turntables in some shops and most Hi-Fi outlets also have a stock of quality turntables again. On the internet there is a small band of people buying and restoring classic turntables. All looks good on the vinyl front at the moment!
Nice to be able to go back to trust and friendship!!!!!!!!!
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Oh! it wears a man down into the ground
It's the strangest elation
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Oh it leaves a man weary
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speaking of vinyl Gryphon...
the new Jack White album has some interesting gimmicky features on the vinyl version....
one side of the vinyl plays at 33 1/3, the other 45 rpm...
one side plays normal, the other from the inside out...
the first track on side one can start in one of two grooves that meld into one groove at some point during the track, so you get two versions of the same song...
also,
on one side of the album, the label has a groove on it, which gives the listener a bonus track not listed on the album
quite ingenius way to promote vinyl records by Jack IMO....
as a footnote,
the latest Neil Young album "a letter home" was recorded in one of those old recording booths that used to let anyone record their own personal recording...
the sound of it is authentic as in no equalisation or production, just a hollow echo sounding song...
th machine he used to record it was a fully restored original machine, restored by Jack White and anyone can use it in his record studio in Nashville...
so i guess....
Jack White is really promoting vinyl to a new younger generation of music lovers who otherwise would never even know what a vinyl record was...cudo's to JW!
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Why the hell doesn't someone produce CD's the size of old LP's (yes I know there aren't any players for them - it's just a thought). At at least we can start seeing some decent artwork again and there would be a hell of a lot more material per disk. I have started purchasing all of Floyd's catalogue on vinyl just for the hell of it and to be reminded again how great gatefold sleeves were. Having said that I think the whole vinyl resurgence is just the last breath of a dying technology. It won't last.
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cover art...gatefold sleeves,lyric inserts that dont need magnifying glasses to read, maybe the odd 'extra' like posters,stickers, the label on the vinyl itself all multi coloured etc...
thats what albums are all about IMO!
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Jerome Wrote:Why the hell doesn't someone produce CD's the size of old LP's (yes I know there aren't any players for them - it's just a thought). At at least we can start seeing some decent artwork again and there would be a hell of a lot more material per disk. I have started purchasing all of Floyd's catalogue on vinyl just for the hell of it and to be reminded again how great gatefold sleeves were. Having said that I think the whole vinyl resurgence is just the last breath of a dying technology. It won't last.
I think it might just last....my reasoning is two fold first I think that the current generation has accepted the whole vinyl thing as a kind of antique and thus there will always be a collectors market in these things especially the rare and exotic titles .......................Number two is the Hi-Fi market which has decided that this is the format of choice for reproduction and as such the quality fanatic will go down this line and build a system......many good quality turntable manufacturers are experiencing a resurgence in demand ..............now for the third reason........archiving.......record companies etc have realised through experience that digital archiving is not without considerable problems and is not that reliable ............thus they have turned back to using high quality vinyl to archieve their precious recordings .
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A few years back, maybe two or three years ago, Abbey Road was the number one selling vinyl disc !!!!...just saying...
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As far as I've heard, vinyl still can't be touched by digital formats. However, CD is good enough, so my buying is almost entirely CD
The idea of the likelihood of digital playback improving in quality is something that seems unlikely. With the advent of streaming & i-Pods, the customer has opted for a huge downgrade in playback quality. Higher fidelity systems such as HDCD, SACD, DVD Audio have all died a hasty death: No-one seems to want them...
There's obviously a small market for vinyl, but the cost has now become relatively prohibitive.
The market has spoken !!
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