Vinyl***What If***

“There is something about the whole ritual of finding a record cleaning it playing each side through that’s somewhat more satisfying then skipping through tracks with a push button or finger swipe. You put a record side on and tend to listen through the whole side discovering tracks you never knew about. You tend to listen in a more involving way, then with tidal for example. You don’t tend to skip parts of a song or the last 20 second to get to the next like you may do with digital (mostly I find I do that sort of stuff when streaming).”

this right here, it’s the experience which makes it more enjoyable than the steady stream of sonos background music playing through my home and office all day. 

You can try to cure masochism, though. Odds are not good, but you can try.

The reason I love vinyl (apart from the artwork, feel, smell, history of previous owners, used finds) is because in almost every case, my original vinyl copy sounds far better than the CD or Tidal hi-fi. My collection is mostly older originals. But even newer vinyl like First Aid Kit and Aldous Harding sounds better on vinyl.

I have two nieces who wanted to try records, and both (independently) bought the U-Turn turntable.  They are both very happy with their choice.  As they are both just out of school and have limited means it was a good financial choice. I also sent them each a vintage amp to get started.  Don’t worry about the naysayers; start low on your budget, and if you catch the fever you just keep upgrading. It’s all about the music.