Vinyl Records will be the death of CD's!
- added October 29, 2007
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- robertogrijalva
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As counterintuitive as it may seem in this age of iPods and digital downloads, vinyl -- the favorite physical format of indie music collectors and audiophiles -- is poised to re-enter the mainstream, or at least become a major tributary.
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- robertogrijalva
- 11 months ago
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We can only hope. While CD and digital will always present a certain clarity that can take music to another level, those formats will never be able to duplicate the warmth and nuanced sound that vinyl provides. I'm proud that I always stuck to my guns as a snobby vinyl dj and never made the move to CD turntables.
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Will we be singing ..."Vinyls killed the CD star" soon then?
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what if every new record sold also came with a link to download mp3 files of the album free as an added bonus? that way, you get both the analog and digital. that be dope, right? yeah, I think so too.
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Interesting!!
I'm ordering a new turntable. I am getting one of those USB models. I still have at least a couple hundred LPs from the 60s and 70s. I do hope to convert them or at least some to CDs or MP3.
I have some that I would say few people could say they ever heard. I was in Germany in the very early 70s. Stuff like UFO, Toe Fat, Juicy Lucy. I used to live in the Zoom Club in downtown Frankfurt, where the DJ, of course played all vinyl. That was in between all the bands that played there. I remember one night, solid Grand Funk Railroad all night. I cried all night. Someone must have spiked my drink. :)
We used to make the best mixture reel to reel tapes imaginable. I still have quite a few of them too. Just need to get me a new Reel to reel, USB may if there's such a thing. With vinyl it was so easy to blend the songs one into the next where you'd have hours of continuous non-stop music.
How about the Fugs? Anybody else got that on records????
I would love to see a resurgence in vinyl and it's accompanying Cover Art. Ten Years After, Traffic, Uriah Heep, King Crimson, Santana, Led Zeppelin.
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It's funny, as a kid I remember getting tapes then CD's and looking at my dad's record player like an obsolete thing of the past.
But in the last couple of years I've learned that vinyl can give you a range and completeness of sound that is not possible with digital, compressed files.
I'll probably be getting a record player soon, especially since there are a few really awesome record stores opening up around me. -
My record collection is meager 400 lps 200 45s it needs to grow. But I can still be content owning every Zeppelin Record! I can't wait till I pick up my new anaolog to digital record player to smooth out a few of the kinks and get those great hard to find songs on my shiny new I-POD.
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Having been raised on vinyl as a collector and DJ, I treasure what I still have as part of the huge collection that once was. Digital is fun yet vinyl, the art of handling records, as well as the sound is incomparable in a unique way. I am totally set up for digital and love the new toys, don't get me wrong, just nice to express sentiment for where it began and still often wants to go. Genuine warmth is just that, the real feel. The whole wave!
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Haven't bought a single record in about 4 years, and unless I'm in Jamaica or something, I probably never will. Audiophiles, vinyl collectors, what a load of crap. Look the appeal of records is that i can put my hand right on the thing; I can move the needle right to where I want it. I run my mixers (TTM 56 and a HAK 320) through a drum machine a build custom effects that give my digitals files all the warmth I can handle. Serato and other programs like it are here to stay, one-you get instant doubles, two-you can use the cue points like a drum machine, and last-I can carry thousands of records on something the size of a pack of gum. If an over digitized sound is what is worrying people just run it back through a piece of equipment. Heck, I have a digital 4-track thats about the size of a cd player that has like 80 sound models built in but can all be tweekd and saved. hey I love records as much as the next guy, but I got into this because I didn't wanna have to wait for someone else to entertain me. I needed something FReSH on the daily, ya know. Thats where the word DOPE came from. Because people fiended for new sounds. So get some gear, make your own tunes, and go play'em out somewhere and leave all that audiophile nonsense to the non djs. Yes the record has killed the cd, but it's a digitized record that has done it. And while I'm on a rant here. The Numark CDX is one of the best turntables I've ever owned- real vinyl, no needle to get bumped or skipped. There are a lot of options in this..so if you're knew to it, don't listen to no BS about vinyl being where it's at. Get yourself a couple Stanton 80's(like $225 a piece), some Serato and a laptop and leave the vinyl adoration in the nineties where it belongs!!
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- ConditionedGoods
- 11 months ago
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Whoa!!! ConditionedGoods.
I'm no fanatic about nothing. Nothing. I just love music and happen to have alot of vinyl with some really fantastic music and I'd love to turn lots of it into CDs and MP3s or whatever.
I stay extremely busy and can do alot of things in life really well, but electronics is not one of my "majors", unfortunately. I don't even know how to turn my dang cell phone off. But I can insert a CD or put on an LP or turn on a reel to reel and then listen and dance away.
I certainly can appreciate the time savings in all this new electronic age, once you've learned the way, but it's kinda like anything else. If you want new cabinets in your kitchen, you can hire a contractor and come back home when it's all done, or you can buy some prebuilt and install them yourself, or you can start from scratch and build the whole dang thing from the ground up yourself. The later is the kind of guy I am.
The destination is the goal I guess. But the trip there can be the more exciting part. Sitting around with your friends, throwing on an album and realizing there's a good song you want on your new mixture reel to reel and going through the motions of adding and blending it in to the last song.
And of course, I'm sure there are some serious digital programs that can do all that, once you've paid the money and did the learning. And maybe it's not that much. I have no idea.
If I had all my music on the latest trend, I doubt if I'd ever put on another album. Every new thing that comes along has 2 groups of people in mind - younger people who have loads of time and well off people who have loads of money. I have neither.
All I have is a love of music and my hearing probably couldn't decipher between vinyl or digital anyway, hifi or lofi. Just so I can hear the beat at least in stereo.
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To TRAX
Exactly!! It's like food. Or anything else. The greater the variety, the better the experience. Everything has it's pluses and it's minuses. Depends on the setting, the timing. -
To cglovegure
That's all I want to do. Put some of that great, hard or impossible to find, music onto digital format, and have some fun in the process
The first 3 real albums I bought were Janis Joplin, LZ2 and Jimi Hendrix Experience.
But actually, before that I had some albums by the Ventures. I wonder if anyone out there ever had those. -
Go to acousticsounds.com and see what's out there on vinyl. It's not necessary for you digital freaks to put down vinyl, that's the sign of inferiority! Us vinyl snobs do like the sound we get, it is different: richer and fuller, and we can "roll" cartridges to tweak the sound. I go another step further: no tinny transistors but full vacuum tube setup, the sound can be jaw dropping delicious. It is all a matter of taste, though, so listen to music any way you want, music is good!
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