The joys of vinyl….

I still love my vinyl, very much indeed, but the older I get, the more I appreciate good CD’s.

I think technology and understanding has advanced a lot.
CD’s can sound pretty good these days, and I appreciate the ability to play the really deep bass on a lot of post CD music.
I love the fact that I can buy a remastered classic album for a fiver from Tesco – which usually reveals more than the crappy 80’s vinyl pressings we bought as kids.
Delighted to see the vinyl there too, genuinely made me smile.

For a quiet night in, the vinyl wins every time though.
It’s just less fatiguing.

I’ve not bought a new vinyl album for a long time, but I’d definitely consider it if the quality is there.

Need a new cartridge too.
🙂

@onlysteel
It’s called the Keep and it will be taking over from The Music Box. Although Richard will still be doing vinyl there.

If anyone is interested, on another forum I’m selling off some of my vinyl in batches of 10 and thought you guys might be interested.

I’ve put up a list here of what’s available with rough price-guidance for batches.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/registry/wishlist/STSWC0FY88W5/ref=cm_wl_sortbar_o_page_1

Give me a shout if anyone is interested 🙂

Goat Karma – I am interested in some of your albums but TBH I am confused as to how I purchase and also prices – can you email me at richardjoyner1979@gmail.com

Cheers

I do like vinyl for the “experience”, nothing like a 12 inch gatefold with a good heavy disc in it. It’s just, it’s an awful for storing music on. OTOH, if I ever want to recreate the sound of vinyl I can get one of those apps that adds random distortion and noise.

I’ve picked up the records from my mom’s, it’s quite amusing seeing the obvious divide between mom and dad’s taste. My mom’s are all Dione Warwick, Barry White and Gladys Knight and the Pips, my dad’s are all ELO, Queen, Supertramp, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, etc! There is also the original Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, along with Mr Men and Punch and Judy Lps! 😆

Going to be selling most of them though, not sure if eBay or a specialist dealer would be best.

@rjj Have emailed you 🙂

Going to be selling most of them though, not sure if eBay or a specialist dealer would be best.

Sounds like charity shop for that kind of collection.

So, people are buying vinyl and not playing it, and don’t even own a record deck – people are odd!…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36027867

Makes sense to me tbh, I only kept interesting vinyl and stuff that meant something to me, I don’t really play it. These guys are just collectors/acquirers, no different to others.

If you’re looking to sell, Discogs is a great resource. Gives you an idea straight away of whether something’s worth owt.

https://www.discogs.com

Cheers for that, Mr Agreeable, I’ll take a look!

I bought lots of vinyl with some birthday money. Problem was I could have got twice as many albums on CD. Of the four albums I’ll probably only still be listening to one of them in years to come. So I think in future I’m just going to buy new vinyl by artists I really love or to replace CD/mp3 versions of classic albums I already have.

it’s an awful (medium?) for storing music on. OTOH, if I ever want to recreate the sound of vinyl I can get one of those apps that adds random distortion and noise.

I use a new anti static lined poly inner sleeve on every purchase, which keeps static dust attraction down to a minimum. I have a number of records that, honestly, make so little noise/pops/crackles you are hard pushed to know that you’re listening to vinyl – asides from the lovely warm sound quality!

A good needle/TT helps of course. My set up has a wonderfully low noise floor.

So, people are buying vinyl and not playing it

Sure, investors. I have a copy of Beck/Sea Change, well, 2 different copies, first press cost me about £25 8 or 9 years ago, now worth an easy £100. 2nd ltd press on another label cost me something like £35 4 years ago – now trading for an easy £200 – there’s a ltd pink version I could have had for £40 at the same time – am seeing them trade for between £300 and £500 now.
If you’re canny the habit/hobby can pay for itself.

I’ve just spent the last couple of years replacing all my vinyl with digital copies. The vinyl’s sound absolutely shocking whether its a £20 or £200 needle. The main reason is they were over played and not cared for by the people using them, including me! The majority have a skip at the beginning from my friends constantly scratching the record back n forth waiting for the beat, or just that worn that the needle doesn’t sit in the groove.

I will never get rid of any of them and they still get used/abused. 😉

Also wrecked a few 70’s classic albums through trying to mix n scratch them.. Quite literally scratch them! 😳

Saw a thing on TV this morning on about how the current vinyl boom is all about kids buying them for the artwork only. They don’t usually have the equipment to play records.
Which is fair enough I have done it myself if I really like an album.

^^yep – http://www.artvinyl.com

don’t forget it’s recordstoreday this Saturday folks. 🙄

Far too much in the way of picture discs/coloured vinyl for my liking in the last couple of years.
And the prices keep getting ratcheted up.
All about the collectors, not the listeners.

What you need is one of these!! 😆

I N R A T S but did anyone hear in the news, 48% of current vinyl buyers don’t play the records?

Oh and Linns are overated!

But they play tunes!*
You’ve obviously not tried one with the Cinikal upgrade, it makes the music come alive.

*or sound a bit coloured.

Oh and Linns are overated!

😆

Trouble is that there are so many variables with them these days with various upgrade options….Perhaps they’re a little sensitive to being set up correctly…but still beats most IMHO. A Badly set up LP12 will sound a bit off

don’t forget it’s recordstoreday this Saturday folks

Yeah, gets worse every year. Last year a bloke outside the shop enthusing about some Duran Duran re-issue made me realise it’s just not for me anymore. Not bothering this time.

Recordstore day has become a beast, inevitable when money meets popularity. It still has its place.

I’m telling you, all you pooh poohers, sliding out a few classic albums and spinning them on a lazy Sunday morning – with a nice cup of coffee and a maybe some eggs on toast – whilst pondering the intricacies of said recording – now that’s just plain Niceeeee

INdeed. Doing the same with CDs or HD stored FLACS just isn’t the same 😛

I’m telling you, all you pooh poohers, sliding out a few classic albums and spinning them on a lazy Sunday morning – with a nice cup of coffee and a maybe some eggs on toast – whilst pondering the intricacies of said recording – now that’s just plain Niceeeee

If I was listening to anything on a Sunday morning it would be Cerys Matthews on 6, and I’d have a notepad or Shazam handy for all of the interesting new stuff she plays that I’d never hear anywhere else.
I can listen to music I already own at anytime.

Saw a thing on TV this morning on about how the current vinyl boom is all about kids buying them for the artwork only. They don’t usually have the equipment to play records.

The music is an irrelevance, it’s just a hipster/fashion thing to look cool.
For me, the music is the truly important thing, the actual medium on which its played comes down to the most convenient for carrying around, which is a 320Kb AAC digital file on my phone or pod. Cassettes were perfectly good enough for years, yet digital files get slagged off for poor sound; have those doing the criticising ever listened to an average tape copy of a vinyl album, I wonder, ‘cos even a 256Kb MP3 will wee in its boots!
I’ve got a bunch of mix tapes recorded on a really good consumer cassette deck, an Aiwa AD-F770, from a £2500 turntable setup, and frankly the results now sound pretty ropey, although that’s probably as much to do with the cruddy vinyl back in the 80’s, apart from 12″ singles, which sound awesome!

Ah c’mon, it’s fun, as all those kids are finding out (at £15.00 a pop 🙂 )

I’m both delighted and astounded it’s survived, imperfections and all.

Living history innit, a warm, fuzzy look back into a rosey past.

It can sound luxurious.
It takes a bit of effort.
And you can’t skin up on a download.

CountZero – Member

I’ve got a bunch of mix tapes recorded on a really good consumer cassette deck, an Aiwa AD-F770, from a £2500 turntable setup, and frankly the results now sound pretty ropey,

Remember the tapes’ll degrade too, from playing and in storage- I got with the digital revolution and copied all my tapes, bootlegs etc to, er, minidisk. Which I now can’t play 😆

(it freaked me out to think with some of the radio taped stuff I have, there’s probably no archive or similiar; maybe I have the only copy of Downset covering Run To The Hills in the world)

My oldest tapes (late 70’s on) are starting to go, but only the crappy ones used on official releases.

All the SA90’s and BASF’s taped from vinyl and radio still seem to work OK.

There’s the whole of Live Aid upstairs on C90 -I don’t really know why.
I’ve not listened to them since the day I recorded them.
🙂

CountZero – Member

If I was listening to anything on a Sunday morning it would be Cerys Matthews on 6, and I’d have a notepad or Shazam handy for all of the interesting new stuff she plays that I’d never hear anywhere else.

Don’t you use that playlister thing?

Countzero – you’ve missed my point. I enjoy not only the sound, but the whole process. I understand that there are ‘better’ more convenient mediums – but part of the physical nature of vinyl connects you in a more fulfilling way. With an original Dylan/Zepp/Beatles (etc) pressing it’s great to be actually holding something that was on the shelf in the record shop back in the 60’s.

I can’t afford a classic 60’s/70’s car, but I can afford a couple of albums from the era. Think of them as mini time machines if you will

I like the whole cleaning process 🙂

I’d have a notepad … for all of the interesting new stuff she plays that I’d never hear anywhere else.

Just one of those bookmark tab Post-It notes then 🙂

I’m both delighted and astounded it’s survived, imperfections and all.

Gilles Peterson was interviewing some independant label guy who said that, although they had been pressing vinyl for years, they were finding it increasingly difficult now and were giving up because the big players were buying up all the pressing plants that people like him had kept going with their custom!