You know Vinyl-Records aren't wanted when

[Silk]

Vinyl is making a comeback - people want the better sound, and albums now have a vinyl option. Neil Young is pushing Pono, his version of high quality music, bring back the sound of vinyl. When CD's first came out people were dumping their LP's - I haunted markets and garage sales picking up all records I wanted for 20 or 50 cents each....I have a collection of about 1,000 vinyl LP's. Send them to me - I'll pay 20 cents an album.

Neil Young's Pono site - http://www.mypono.com/

 

[methusaleh]

Vinyl is, was, and probably always will be the preferred medium for collectors of certain genres. For instance, my collection of classic punk and hardcore vinyl is basically priceless, with many test presses, extremely limited runs of colored vinyl, etc.

 

[Silk]

I have a purple Deep Purple In Rock, and a red Let It Bleed, and a couple of other coloured ones.

 

[Autobahn88]

I will always prefer vinyl over digital downloads (even CDs for that matter). The artwork of the album covers and the gatefold sleeves with the lyrics make the music experience that much better. I still have over a couple of thousand records in my collection and have no desire to ever get rid of them.
My 8 and 10 year old girls acutally like it when I play my old records. They find it amusing and interesting.

 

[The_Jeff]

I have boxes and boxes of the stuff. I did by buying in the mid 1990s when I had a college radio excuse to play them. I also kept the turntables tuned up.

They were invariably left behind by someone ten years older than myself who moved out and left the bulky box of records home with Mom. So there was lots of 70s and 80s now-classic rock and disco.

I have probably half a dozen copies of "Thriller" and "Frampton Comes Alive" that unwittingly stowed away in boxes of otherwise tasteful music. It's really a shame ammo is so expensive because these records need more holes than the ones they were stamped with.

Unfortunately my turntable was a toddler-mess-with-me magnet so it's in storage. I can imagine its belt drying to a crisp. Bought said turntable for a buck then spent another $15 on a belt-- see that repeating when I get it spinning again.

My home hi-fi is the only thing with decent bass, and I'm generally willing to pump the volume more on a record than some digital input. I can't comment on sound quality (audiofool snobbery, IMO) except that a louder jam session is better than computer speakers.

The Goodwill store near me has GREAT 90's movies on VHS for 99 cents. Noone can argue their miserable quality, but it's a great way to "rent" a movie a la redbox and not deal with its return, or even rewinding.

 

[KitaCam]

The problem with belts drying out from age and lack of use got me to just go with a Technics quartz-direct drive and a Dual disk drive back-up...the Dual 1219 I've had since 1975 still runs great (even the cueing/dampening action!).

 

[Kruse]

Originally Posted By: aquariuscsm
Imo analog sounds MUCH better than digital. One day I want to get an all vacuum tube system.


I've got several dozen of tube amps and tuners. (I collect and repair certain makes and models) IMO, a lot of the tubey sound is similar to putting Mobil 1 in your car after draining out SuperTech. The car will run better because they think it should just like a tube amp will sound better because the listener thinks it will sound better. I'm sure some people can distinguish the difference, but most people cannot pick out a good solid-state sound against a good tube amp sound if they are blindfolded. A lot of tube amp owners also own tube amps just because they like the fact that they can experiment with various tube manufacturers. If you want to see a real Jekyll and Hyde transformation, see how snooty a tube amp owner suddenly gets after he has switched from a solid state system. And yes, my hearing has been recently tested and is still as good as the average teenager.

 

[Errtt]

Well today I warmed up the 2A3 amp, spun 2 LPs. I'm good for the month. Always amazed how dynamic a LP can stage every time.

 

[Fleetmon]

I agree that music can sound better from vinyl than digitized....there are a few songs from Hendrix that have his fingers sqeaking on his guitar strings you can hear on vinyl but the sounds have disappeared on CD. One that comes readily to mind is "Remember"....the CD version captures some of the string sqeaks/pops but not all of them.

I have an old Technics direct-drive turntable with a Pickering (IIRC) cartridge....the one with the little brush ahead of the stylus. I also have a brand-new, never-used Shure cartridge for it too.

As I said earlier, most of my albums were only played once to record them and then sleeved up and put away. I don't have any of the mono-versions mentioned earlier but I do have Electric Ladyland with the naked models on the cover that was banned....supposedly, it is worth quite a bit. My kids should have a grand time going through all of my "junk" when I'm gone.....hahahaha!