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Can you imagine a world without vinyl?

Can you imagine a world without vinyl?
I have been into vinyl for 49 years - since the age of 8 & cannot imagine a world without vinyl.
I started out buying 45's & graduated to 33's (what is now considered LP's).
I have seen 8 tracks come & go, still have a kazillion cassettes, reel to reel & digital cassettes - have both the best redbook player & SACD players available, but must listen to my "LP's" at least 2 hours a day.
I play CD's about 6 hours a day as background music while I'm working, but must get off my butt every now & then & "just listen to real music".
I admit to being a vinyl junkie - wih 7 turntables, 11 cartridges & 8 arms along with 35K albums & 15K 45's.
For all you guys who ask - Is vinyl worth it - the answer is yes!
Just play any CD, cassette, or digital tape with the same version on vinyl & see/hear for yourself.
May take more time & energy (care) to play, but worth it's weight in gold.
Like Mikey says "Try it, you'll like it!"
I love it!
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snofun3
603 posts
 
Who could live without the constant care and cleaning of their plastic discs, then spending stupid amounts of time setting up and checking their rig, tonearm, cartridge, tracking etc., then ensuring that you put the stylus down in the proper position to ensure you don't have another pop from where it lands, then getting up to skip the next crappy song, or turn it over, or remove it for another 12 inch double sided gem that again needs to be cleaned and pampered, then "enjoy" the two good tunes on it.

And of course obcessing about what covers and inserts to put the discs in, and ensuing that the static build up is minimized, etc.

I can - I have a life. This is a hobby. If you're that concerned with the quality of your reproduction go to the symphony, or concert hall or local bar and hear what it's really about. This fawning over vinyl is pathetic.
zaikesman
3,017 posts
 
Again, posters like Hfeiner remain intent on conflating the notion of all digital audio with the limited medium of the CD. The question at the top was "Can you imagine a world without vinyl?", not "Can you imagine a world with nothing but CDs?" Anyway, it makes perfect sense that reviewers would inlcude listening to CDs in their evaluations, since that's the source most readers will be using.

Gregm: Think beyond the realm of the silver disk, be it CD, DVD or SACD. My hunch is that in several years when prerecorded disks are on the way out, and almost all music (and video) is delivered digitally over the 'Net and connection bandwidth/speed has ceased being a practical limitation, audiophilia may get a welcome kick in the pants from the availability for customers to choose just how high they'd like their rez.
old_6eyes
46 posts
 
Hey, we all listen to analog! CD, SACD, DVD, MP3, vinyl,tape, whatever. It has to be analog when it gets to your speakers - we can't hear digital. So it comes down to whether you prefer straight analog, or digital converted to analog. ( Or analog converted to digital and back to analog, for that matter.) Happy listening!
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jyprez
241 posts
 
Johnnantais wrote ... vinyl is making a comeback ...

What planet are you living on? While there are (and always have been) a number of people like us who belive in vinyl as the way to go (given the current alternatives) to suggest this might turn into some popular vinyl revival is ludicrious. The number of new issues on vinyl compared to CD is, has been for years and will continue to be almost unmeasurably small. (not to mention the fact that the quality of new issues compared to the 50's and 60's mostly stinks). Be content with the old vinyl you have and can find but don't nurture any delusions of vinyl suddenly returning to its former glory days.
Pray and agitate instead for the music companies to move beyond either vinyl or redbook CD to a better place which is technically feasible if only the economic rationale presented itself.
gregm
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Zaike:
audiophilia may get a welcome kick in the pants from the availability for customers to choose just how high they'd like their rez.
That's my hope as well --
but the ONLY, tiny, indication of this actually being available one day seems to be the existence of improved live FM broadcast... i.e. the fact that a few people are actually making the effort today to provide "good sound" over the waves...
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