As a committed [vinyl] record collector and ex-DJ, it's so satisfying to see the resurgence of the original and best format. I absolutely hate CD's [and DVD for that matter] and I know many tekkies will argue about the sound quality of CD [which I totally dispute, and think is pure bullshit]. In fact, many of the CD's and DVD's I bought are unplayable today - the 'grooves' have disappeared! The beauty of vinyl is that it is so much more tactile and your interaction with it is a far more engaging experience. I remember when and where I bought every single vinyl record I have - they take you back to a certain point in your life that CD could never do. I have absolutely no 'connection' with CD - they are just a commodity like a bar of soap. Yet I clearly remember when I bought my very first 45 [Marvin Gaye's - 'Wherever I lay my hat' / 'Too Busy Thinking About My Baby'] 1969 UK release on Tamla-Motown and how excited I was taking it out of its [paper] sleeve, wiping it and putting it on my record player. I remember all the many rare records [especially their colourful and exotic labels] and promo/demo copies I have bought and how proud I was playing them to audiences, knowing that there were only a limited number of these priceless items in the country. That people would approach me to ask what the record was, where I bought and how much I paid for it. Often, they would ask me to make them tapes of my playlist. CD simply does not replicate that emotion. I could happily burn every CD in my possession and not feel a thing. But I could and would NEVER ever do that with any of my vinyl records. That to me tells you everything you need to know about vinyl and why it is so special.
I was a vinyl collector up until 90-91 when my kids entered my life. Bought the occational cd now and then. Come summer 2017 , my wife bought me a descent (re)starter system and the addiction resurfaced with a vengeance. It’s true what some of the people in this video says : it’s an avalanche. There is no end to it. AND I LOVE IT !!!!!!
I collect the major 3 formats. Vinyl, Cassettes, & CD's. All for one reason. I love music. Growing up I couldn't afford going out and getting the newest ones out there. By time I was old enough to buy. CD's where the major thing. But the cost ( $12.00 to $25.99) for a CD was way out of my price range. But I could always borrow my friends stuff and make a cassette of it. Now that I am older. And I can go to thrift shop, flea markets, and other 2nd hand stores. I am just buying up whatever strike me. I enjoy the music. And I think it is cool being about to find it all on the 3 formats. But still with the new records coming out. I can't see paying $25.00 for a record.
Twisted Just for the records dude cassettes is not major format actually is the CRAPPIEST among analog tapes even CRAPPIEST is track 8 : Studio master Reel tapes 15' and even better 30' is a MAJOR format anyway just wanted clarify this thing :-)
2:20 wow i would love to have friends over and listen to an album! Now I just gotta find some friends into records haha. Glad to find a community online. Love sharing records on my channel
Aww!! What a throwback! Very cool to see this and we now have a brick and mortar shop. Thank you, Matt!! This was super fun and wonderful to see the popularity rise to an even higher level!!
Same with so much media, ownership in the "real" world is key, games, movies, books etc. Vinyl takes personal investment and care, and has brought the appreciation actually listening to an album back, in a world of collapsing attention spans
I dont have a TV or a radio, however I acquired a record player and now have 2-300 records. I play it very often. And I love it. I have a few records that are scratched to hell and back but doesnt skip....
I wish I had more record stores closer to me. I have to catch a 35-40min train ride into Adelaide CBD, South Australia to go to one store, then catch a bus to another place from the city to go to another record store. I just love diving through crates, digging through records to find great albums. I only just started collecting records last year and I have become addicted! CD’s are always going to have the cleanest sound with extremely low noise, but there’s just something about vinyl, I’m just drawn to it. There’s nothing like pulling a record out of its sleeve, putting it on the platter and dropping the needle on it!
Those of us who never really gave it up are very happy to see you all back. Great new equipment, new releases and pressings and major retailers carrying vinyl again is all thanks to you.
~ 2018: Ohio Players, Diana Ross & The Supremes, 7" singles, Aretha Franklin, Beck, soundtrack albums, everything and anything sounds better on vinyl. Also, always has! In most big cities, vinyl never died. Just like disco, it just went briefly underground. Still big, getting bigger. Cheers, DAVEDJ ~
I love my old record collection(back to late 50s mono) and have not bought any new issues, but I search the used record bins in thrift stores. Unfortunately , the records are often so scratched it is not worth hearing them. But sometimes I find real gems: forgotten classic releases in good shape, artists who disappeared, and box sets of well preserved, wonderful music. For contemporary music I’ll take CDs or even occasional streaming for the pure sound without pops and scratches. To hold a round, grooved disk in a beautiful cover and place it on my turntable is an unequalled experience.
Part of the vinyl revival for millennials is because they are the first generation since the war not to have an identifying musical genre. They are also the first generation that has endured the worst period of song writing since the start of 'pop' in the 1920's. the vast majority of modern pop tunes use very simple (just major and minor) 4 chord progressions with no middle eight, no intro, no outro..mindless lyrics and over production..most top 40 songs are written by a handful of people. Different sections of a song are denoted by production and arrangement rather than compositional elements..Thankfully, many youngsters are tired of this monotony and want more from music. This has led them onto that voyage of discovery, and they are learning that the best popular music was performed years ago..Good luck to them..and the sooner this era of pop is over, the better.
Agree about current (since late 1990s) mainstream pop being very formulaic and often irritating, but if you dig deep enough, a select group of contemporary artists are making much better music than some artists of the overrated decades of yore. Yes, I do listen to all decades of music from the 1900s to 2010s - the absolute 'worst' were hands down in the 1900 decade.
Not all modern songs are bad imo but they are not as well made as they used to be. I find indie pop has a lot of good music that does hold up to the old stuff.
At 18:34 there Is a Graphic Equalizer on top of the record shelf. I hope that Is just for show and Not In line of the System. If It Is then Yes this would explain why He cannot hear the difference. What these and Tone Controls On a Amp do Is Add sound to the Original Recording that was Not originally there so causing distortion. This Is why high end Amps don't have these controls on them. As they produce the music as the Engineer and Producer Intended It to be. So NEVER use a Graphic equalizer or If Your amp has tone controls leave them on 12 or Flat or If You a Direct sound source button press It In. You will hear the difference straight away and want to play all records again this time as they were meant to sound.
When I first started collecting records in the early 90s I would go to the local shops and ask for the LP versions of the albums I was looking for and just about every person at the shops would say the same thing and I quote " records are dead and they aren't coming back why do you want those? Get the cd it will last forever " hmmmm🤔 I think they were wrong lol
I like how the one guy says that record stores only have main stream bullcrap when in reality his way of doin it online is more main stream than record stores
Cool stuff. I prefer vinyl over CDs, I don't stream or play digital files but the guy that said you lose 97% of the sound with digital should have been edited out of this, it really makes people who listen to music on vinyl look stupid. Some people just don't know what they're talking about.
That's more than not knowing what he's talking about and just a blatant lie, CDs and high quality digital files have a much better dynamic range than vinyl but some CDs do sound like shit because the "loudness" has been cranked up to the max and cut off all the low end,I like vinyl but it's more about the artwork and the ritual of playing it,I still buy vinyl and CDs because I'll listen to a stream/MP3/FLAC etc but won't pay for them because I want an actual product plus I can rip my CDs or vinyls and have a free copy anyway,alot of my CDs are "mint" because they've only left the case to be ripped and placed back to keep in a decent condition
Waiting in line to buy an album! I remember lines around the block for the midnight release of Metallica's black album. What a crazy, amazing thing that is dead now. Thankfully there is record store day so we can share that kind of enthusiasm again.
I'm guessing a lot of vinyl collectors are foot in both camps. If you download it and it's good enough you'll buy the vinyl. If you buy the vinyl and like it, you'll download it so you can save some wear on your vinyl.
count69 That sounds about right. I grew up in an analog world (vinyl and cassette tapes), but I've been digital only for a long time now. However, I am awaiting the arrival of my vintage turntable (found on eBay). I'm not sure how I will incorporate the turntable and vinyl into my music collection. Right now, I'm thinking that I won't have an overlap of albums in the two formats., but I am looking forward to having some vinyl in my life again!
Nope I'm all for vinyl , digital doesn't come close to the sound quality from vinyl we are analog creatures we created computers an analog record is an exact copy of the sound wavelength , a computer that we created cannot duplicate the exact waveform and never will be able to because it's not an analog machine
My mom has a whole heaping collection of 45s. I got in to records at the age of 13. My first record was a 33 and it was Whitney E. Houston's secomd self titled "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) I just recently got in to records. I actually purchased my direct drive turntable Audio-Technica this past January. I've always wanted to get into vinyl. But it just started up, there were no record stores, the only way to purchase records is on the damn internet. There is Nothing like going the record shop and flipping and looking at the albums, touching the albums the artwork. Whenever I go to a record store I I already know it will be a 4 or maybe 5 hours of my looking and searching and finding. Sometimes I don't exactly know what I want until I see it and that's cool because I know it will be my very own surprise. I didn't know digital download quility gets worse over time. Wow learn something new everyday. For me, record collecting, there are multiple reasons why I collect. 1: I enjoy it, (again what part of my collecting do I enjoy, I enjoy my driving to the record store, looking at records,) I enjoy swapping styles setting the tracking force, setting alignment of the stylus, tube rolling for my vacuum tube p2p amp. I like putting the record on the plotter moving of the Tonearme and of course that rich warm sound that nobody can get unles they have of course a turntable.
It's funny how vinyl has made a comeback. What i dont think the kids get these days is that the record has to be AAA not DAA which defeats the pure information packed original anaglog waveform that make records superior to 44hz WAV files on cds. I dare say they are paying 30$ for new records reissued from digital masters, though to be fair the digital source files are most likely 96hz which is a recording standard in the studio which is twice the info on cds. So my question is: When new bands decide to put out an lp release, are they recording in the multi track studio in analog wave forms to put out AAA or are they recording onto digital. DAA. Whats the point of putting out an lp unless it's AAA? If they are not, then just release a cd in a nice lp sized cardstock folder and the kids can roll their joints on that while they groove on all the art work and liner notes ? Otherwise who wants to pick off all the dandruff and hair flecks of the record and needle.
Great documentary--easily the best one I've watched that covers the story of the "vinyl resurgence". In terms of the sound quality of vinyl, I agree with people when it's entirely based on personal preference. I mean, that's fairly plain to see when people have a wide variety of opinions, and the battle between the quality of CDs Vs. LPs never really concludes. But, I think it goes without saying that not every pressing is going to sound better than CDs (for most), or even that great at all. There are a lot of badly pressed LPs, unfortunately (especially today). And yeah, most contemporary albums pressed onto vinyl aren't going to necessarily bring you as much joy (sound quality-wise) as compared to pretty much everything pressed before LPs completely died out. Personally, I don't really give a crap. Most contemporary releases sound good enough that they're not 'bad' (they're on par with anything digital at the very least), but it's always great to find that one amazing pressing. But I listen to vinyl for a variety of different reasons, many of which were mentioned in this documentary. But I absolutely love the community attached to vinyl. I have social-anxiety that can sometimes be quite crippling as it tends to prevent me from doing things that I actually turn out to want to do, but I find that the passion of vinyl can work itself so easily into conversations. And I think it's just because there's so much feeling to it, and most of what people have to say about vinyl is really personal and purely opinionated (unless you're talking to an extreme audiophile). You know this, and the person you're talking to knows this, so knowing that there's no right or wrong, is there really anything that's technically invalid for you to say about it? It doesn't have to be a topic of fact-telling. It's like discussing art. I think that everything music can be is only legitimately portrayed on vinyl. There's something about it that communicates with us in a way that I think music should. You don't get anything like that with music-streaming (partly because there's no self-developing community that encourages face-to-face interaction and discussion), but it's also interesting that it doesn't really happen with CDs either, given that they're also a physical media. But that's a whole other mystery.
I bought 60% of my vinyls online because it's easier to get what you want with Amazon. The rest I go to a local store every 2 week and buy things I didn't know I wanted lol. The nice thing about that store is you can listen to records before buying.
Here in the UK , Djs have always used it , well , some of us are . UK has very little Records as people just want to push one button MP3 . Most of the lathes have been ditched and will not be re-built due to cost. The only Hype we have is S.M.A.R.T PHONES !!! yess the ZOMBIES .
I grew up in the 50s lived the most of my life with records and CDs. Now I’m on Spotify and Apple Music I’m so happy. Well I guess different strokes for different folks. I was in the Artillery when I was in the army I don’t hear anything Over 7000 Hz so all this high end stuff is wasted on me. I Experienced it all. I’m a happy camper with digital music. You can keep the records and CDs.
Vinyl is nice but too expensive. I don't have the time to go loose hours to search old Vinyl. They need to bring the price down like CD's. I've been buying vinyls for 2 month and I've spent more than 1k. I can't keep up like this.
I gotta fully disagree with the guy who stated that the recent Led Zep remasters are the same as all the other ones from past years, and that it's merely a marketing tactic. However, have no doubt that the new 180 gram vinyl thing that everyone is releasing now is such a tactic.The weight of the vinyl makes little to no difference to the sound in my opinion. I'll give him that much. That being said, the recent LZ deluxe album versions have much more detail and clarity than they've ever had before. I have pretty bad hearing from cranking my headphones all my life, but the difference is quite noticeable even for someone like myself. For example, When The Levee Breaks on LZ IV...you can hear all of these tiny details toward the end of that song that I've never really noticed before. It sounds terrific. With the older LZ releases, the instruments and details are a little bit more muddled together. Page and his engineers did a fantastic job with these new remasters. I don't really know much about recent releases from other artists, so I can't speak to any of those, but this guy's ears must be pretty dull not to notice any improvement on the Zep albums.
I just hope the new vinyls are mixed and mastered for Vinyl and not just dumb copy of a CD. For the price they ask for it I really hope they put the work in.
Thing is, right now, I can buy THREE CDs for the price of ONE vinyl LP. I’m age 70 and grew up on vinyl, but what’s a guy to do now I’m not Earning Vinyl High Cash?
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It'd be nice to see a little quality control in new pressings.
Your thought is the same as me complaing in games about game fog , blur, stupid effects which make a really bad player but you might do this with snap crackle pop and your hering -this is about see peer through that and vinyl is way better than current digital if you can do it , i cant with games
@20:07 the video shows a CD vs vinyl sound wave. The files illustrated are not conclusive because the CD file appears to have been extracted from a modern CD with massive compression (google 'loudness wars'). The narrator incorrectly concludes that a CD has narrower dynamic range. It does not. Also Digital cannot clip. Clipping causes audible distortion. A digital file can reproduce sound waves beyond the range of human hearing. The real issue is the replay. The CD file should be from an analog source and certainly 'pre loudness war'...Most people have NEVER heard high end audio replay on either format.
Some vinyl sounds terrible, some vinyl sounds great, shop wisely CD’s are sonically consistent, not necessarily better or worse. Comparing apples to oranges
There can be a huge difference in a re release or an original in sound quality. There can also be a big difference in who masters and puts it out. Not a question as to is there really a difference or not - its a fact no question about it. Mp3's ruin a listening experience.
I buy all new (1980'-present) music on cd and buy all the older stuff on vinyl. I get a sense of nostalgia listening to old music on it's original format played on an old stereo. It's like a time machine for my ears :)
@@WithScienceAsMySheperd music that is on the charts today. Most people are of the opinion that they were recorded digitally from the beginning and that this has been the case since the 90's
the guy @19:00 doesn't understand audio..the sight of a graphic should make any audio fan shudder...so should it too when he lifts the disc from the TT whilst it's still spinning and then proceeds to hold the album on the edge with his fingernails...I said in a previous post that 99% of people who own vinyl do not know how to care or maintain it, and this hipster poser is the perfect example of that...Ironic that I'd already stated in a previous post what the 'new wave' of vinyl fans were...This poser is the perfect example of that.
All I hear Is "There's So Much Available there's No Choice Anymore" What You have got to realize Is, The Music that Is Available Is just the Rubbish put out by the Record Industries. I have a Channel on Here and I get Massive reaction from the People Who Stumble on It. I Put up Records that are only Available on The 45 Singles and No where else.
A well mastered CD will always sound better than the best vinyl. What you are comparing is a CD from the "loudness Wars"! This is unfair and misleading to those who do not understand either media and is poor journalism!. I challenge you to compare a first issue of DSOTM vinyl, and first issue of DSOTM CD(AAD)....
They take this to seriously,The other guy his room got bunch of alien lights.In there heads they think like they're rock star but they're just ordinary people wasting too much money for the records.Id rather travel around the world.
It is a fad. Absurd prices and mediocre quality will eventually cool or kill the trend. A CD comeback with a return to sanity (vinyl does NOT sound better) is somewhere around the bend.
so many people buy vinyl because they are posers..it's mostly hipster kids trying to show how 'right on' they are and buying into some imagined retro chic cool that they actually know nothing about because they weren't there..As a middle aged man, I find it hilariously cringeworthy.
simon lloyd Disagree, not their fault they were not born in the record era I am moved to see that this format has peaked their interest and they want to learn more about it Their days are not spent trolling social media but actively researching music finds
OK once and for all... vinyl records are not the perfect sound source because after 10- 20 spins they all emit non musical noise from the grooves that only gets worse the more you love your imperfect artifact.
Wish I had seen this when this originally posted. You mean you collect or collected "albums, records or LP's." They're MADE out of vinyl not called vinyl. Has been since the inception of records. Millenials are the idiots who have to try and rename everything.
As a committed [vinyl] record collector and ex-DJ, it's so satisfying to see the resurgence of the original and best format. I absolutely hate CD's [and DVD for that matter] and I know many tekkies will argue about the sound quality of CD [which I totally dispute, and think is pure bullshit]. In fact, many of the CD's and DVD's I bought are unplayable today - the 'grooves' have disappeared!
The beauty of vinyl is that it is so much more tactile and your interaction with it is a far more engaging experience. I remember when and where I bought every single vinyl record I have - they take you back to a certain point in your life that CD could never do. I have absolutely no 'connection' with CD - they are just a commodity like a bar of soap.
Yet I clearly remember when I bought my very first 45 [Marvin Gaye's - 'Wherever I lay my hat' / 'Too Busy Thinking About My Baby'] 1969 UK release on Tamla-Motown and how excited I was taking it out of its [paper] sleeve, wiping it and putting it on my record player.
I remember all the many rare records [especially their colourful and exotic labels] and promo/demo copies I have bought and how proud I was playing them to audiences, knowing that there were only a limited number of these priceless items in the country. That people would approach me to ask what the record was, where I bought and how much I paid for it. Often, they would ask me to make them tapes of my playlist.
CD simply does not replicate that emotion. I could happily burn every CD in my possession and not feel a thing. But I could and would NEVER ever do that with any of my vinyl records. That to me tells you everything you need to know about vinyl and why it is so special.
I was a vinyl collector up until 90-91 when my kids entered my life. Bought the occational cd now and then. Come summer 2017 , my wife bought me a descent (re)starter system and the addiction resurfaced with a vengeance. It’s true what some of the people in this video says : it’s an avalanche. There is no end to it. AND I LOVE IT !!!!!!
I collect the major 3 formats. Vinyl, Cassettes, & CD's. All for one reason. I love music. Growing up I couldn't afford going out and getting the newest ones out there. By time I was old enough to buy. CD's where the major thing. But the cost ( $12.00 to $25.99) for a CD was way out of my price range. But I could always borrow my friends stuff and make a cassette of it. Now that I am older. And I can go to thrift shop, flea markets, and other 2nd hand stores. I am just buying up whatever strike me. I enjoy the music. And I think it is cool being about to find it all on the 3 formats. But still with the new records coming out. I can't see paying $25.00 for a record.
I like the hunt of albums and exploring the different bands that I haven't found yet
Twisted
Just for the records dude cassettes is not major format actually is the CRAPPIEST among analog tapes even CRAPPIEST is track 8 :
Studio master Reel tapes 15' and even better 30' is a MAJOR format
anyway just wanted clarify this thing :-)
I'm almost done with my prince cd collection
And I don't want it to end so I started collecting the vinyl format
And it is WAY MORE FUN THAN CD
2:20 wow i would love to have friends over and listen to an album! Now I just gotta find some friends into records haha. Glad to find a community online. Love sharing records on my channel
Same here.
Yeah, that's kind of my dream. Meeting people and then checking records out together and afterwards maybe discussing them. :)
Agreed
I know it is kinda randomly asking but do anybody know a good website to watch newly released movies online?
@Bennett Kaiser i would suggest flixzone. Just google for it =)
I see that green Skeletor Castle right behind the woman with the yellow bandana, I remember buying that for my kids back in the day...
Huh?
Aww!! What a throwback! Very cool to see this and we now have a brick and mortar shop. Thank you, Matt!! This was super fun and wonderful to see the popularity rise to an even higher level!!
Same with so much media, ownership in the "real" world is key, games, movies, books etc. Vinyl takes personal investment and care, and has brought the appreciation actually listening to an album back, in a world of collapsing attention spans
I dont have a TV or a radio, however I acquired a record player and now have 2-300 records. I play it very often. And I love it. I have a few records that are scratched to hell and back but doesnt skip....
I wish I had more record stores closer to me. I have to catch a 35-40min train ride into Adelaide CBD, South Australia to go to one store, then catch a bus to another place from the city to go to another record store. I just love diving through crates, digging through records to find great albums. I only just started collecting records last year and I have become addicted! CD’s are always going to have the cleanest sound with extremely low noise, but there’s just something about vinyl, I’m just drawn to it. There’s nothing like pulling a record out of its sleeve, putting it on the platter and dropping the needle on it!
Those of us who never really gave it up are very happy to see you all back. Great new equipment, new releases and pressings and major retailers carrying vinyl again is all thanks to you.
~ 2018: Ohio Players, Diana Ross & The Supremes, 7" singles, Aretha Franklin, Beck, soundtrack albums, everything and anything sounds better on vinyl. Also, always has! In most big cities, vinyl never died. Just like disco, it just went briefly underground.
Still big, getting bigger. Cheers, DAVEDJ ~
Ohio Players🤩🤩
I love my old record collection(back to late 50s mono) and have not bought any new issues, but I search the used record bins in thrift stores. Unfortunately , the records are often so scratched it is not worth hearing them. But sometimes I find real gems: forgotten classic releases in good shape, artists who disappeared, and box sets of well preserved, wonderful music. For contemporary music I’ll take CDs or even occasional streaming for the pure sound without pops and scratches. To hold a round, grooved disk in a beautiful cover and place it on my turntable is an unequalled experience.
Heck, what are chances...Faith no more...playing my UNfavorite record...Still at it boys...Shema!!!
Part of the vinyl revival for millennials is because they are the first generation since the war not to have an identifying musical genre. They are also the first generation that has endured the worst period of song writing since the start of 'pop' in the 1920's. the vast majority of modern pop tunes use very simple (just major and minor) 4 chord progressions with no middle eight, no intro, no outro..mindless lyrics and over production..most top 40 songs are written by a handful of people. Different sections of a song are denoted by production and arrangement rather than compositional elements..Thankfully, many youngsters are tired of this monotony and want more from music. This has led them onto that voyage of discovery, and they are learning that the best popular music was performed years ago..Good luck to them..and the sooner this era of pop is over, the better.
Agree about current (since late 1990s) mainstream pop being very formulaic and often irritating, but if you dig deep enough, a select group of contemporary artists are making much better music than some artists of the overrated decades of yore. Yes, I do listen to all decades of music from the 1900s to 2010s - the absolute 'worst' were hands down in the 1900 decade.
Not all modern songs are bad imo but they are not as well made as they used to be. I find indie pop has a lot of good music that does hold up to the old stuff.
At 18:34 there Is a Graphic Equalizer on top of the record shelf. I hope that Is just for show and Not In line of the System. If It Is then Yes this would explain why He cannot hear the difference. What these and Tone Controls On a Amp do Is Add sound to the Original Recording that was Not originally there so causing distortion. This Is why high end Amps don't have these controls on them. As they produce the music as the Engineer and Producer Intended It to be. So NEVER use a Graphic equalizer or If Your amp has tone controls leave them on 12 or Flat or If You a Direct sound source button press It In. You will hear the difference straight away and want to play all records again this time as they were meant to sound.
Really hoping the vinyl resurgence brings back a resurgence of the indie record store. Great documentary, thank you!
When I first started collecting records in the early 90s I would go to the local shops and ask for the LP versions of the albums I was looking for and just about every person at the shops would say the same thing and I quote " records are dead and they aren't coming back why do you want those? Get the cd it will last forever " hmmmm🤔 I think they were wrong lol
And this was 5\6 years ago..
Vinyl is bigger then ever in 2021.
Even with a pressing factory catching fire.
Vinyl rules!! Simply I cannot stop buying records!! It's like a drug!!!!!
I like how the one guy says that record stores only have main stream bullcrap when in reality his way of doin it online is more main stream than record stores
Cool stuff.
I prefer vinyl over CDs, I don't stream or play digital files but the guy that said you lose 97% of the sound with digital should have been edited out of this, it really makes people who listen to music on vinyl look stupid.
Some people just don't know what they're talking about.
That's more than not knowing what he's talking about and just a blatant lie, CDs and high quality digital files have a much better dynamic range than vinyl but some CDs do sound like shit because the "loudness" has been cranked up to the max and cut off all the low end,I like vinyl but it's more about the artwork and the ritual of playing it,I still buy vinyl and CDs because I'll listen to a stream/MP3/FLAC etc but won't pay for them because I want an actual product plus I can rip my CDs or vinyls and have a free copy anyway,alot of my CDs are "mint" because they've only left the case to be ripped and placed back to keep in a decent condition
Waiting in line to buy an album! I remember lines around the block for the midnight release of Metallica's black album. What a crazy, amazing thing that is dead now. Thankfully there is record store day so we can share that kind of enthusiasm again.
I'm guessing a lot of vinyl collectors are foot in both camps. If you download it and it's good enough you'll buy the vinyl. If you buy the vinyl and like it, you'll download it so you can save some wear on your vinyl.
count69 That sounds about right. I grew up in an analog world (vinyl and cassette tapes), but I've been digital only for a long time now. However, I am awaiting the arrival of my vintage turntable (found on eBay). I'm not sure how I will incorporate the turntable and vinyl into my music collection. Right now, I'm thinking that I won't have an overlap of albums in the two formats., but I am looking forward to having some vinyl in my life again!
I have the same records I bought in the early and mid-1960s. Care for vinyl records, using good stylus and electronics: they will last forever.
Nope I'm all for vinyl , digital doesn't come close to the sound quality from vinyl we are analog creatures we created computers an analog record is an exact copy of the sound wavelength , a computer that we created cannot duplicate the exact waveform and never will be able to because it's not an analog machine
Finally a longer documentary on records. Most of CZcams are like three minutes long and call themselves a documentary.
My mom has a whole heaping collection of 45s. I got in to records at the age of 13. My first record was a 33 and it was Whitney E. Houston's secomd self titled "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
I just recently got in to records. I actually purchased my direct drive turntable Audio-Technica this past January. I've always wanted to get into vinyl. But it just started up, there were no record stores, the only way to purchase records is on the damn internet. There is Nothing like going the record shop and flipping and looking at the albums, touching the albums the artwork. Whenever I go to a record store I I already know it will be a 4 or maybe 5 hours of my looking and searching and finding. Sometimes I don't exactly know what I want until I see it and that's cool because I know it will be my very own surprise. I didn't know digital download quility gets worse over time. Wow learn something new everyday. For me, record collecting, there are multiple reasons why I collect. 1: I enjoy it, (again what part of my collecting do I enjoy, I enjoy my driving to the record store, looking at records,) I enjoy swapping styles setting the tracking force, setting alignment of the stylus, tube rolling for my vacuum tube p2p amp. I like putting the record on the plotter moving of the Tonearme and of course that rich warm sound that nobody can get unles they have of course a turntable.
It's funny how vinyl has made a comeback. What i dont think the kids get these days is that the record has to be AAA not DAA which defeats the pure information packed original anaglog waveform that make records superior to 44hz WAV files on cds. I dare say they are paying 30$ for new records reissued from digital masters, though to be fair the digital source files are most likely 96hz which is a recording standard in the studio which is twice the info on cds.
So my question is: When new bands decide to put out an lp release, are they recording in the multi track studio in analog wave forms to put out AAA or are they recording onto digital. DAA. Whats the point of putting out an lp unless it's AAA? If they are not, then just release a cd in a nice lp sized cardstock folder and the kids can roll their joints on that while they groove on all the art work and liner notes ? Otherwise who wants to pick off all the dandruff and hair flecks of the record and needle.
This was so we'll produced. The information presented was excellent. Great job.
I love vinyl it's a more engaging experience and fun buying the records.
Great documentary--easily the best one I've watched that covers the story of the "vinyl resurgence". In terms of the sound quality of vinyl, I agree with people when it's entirely based on personal preference. I mean, that's fairly plain to see when people have a wide variety of opinions, and the battle between the quality of CDs Vs. LPs never really concludes. But, I think it goes without saying that not every pressing is going to sound better than CDs (for most), or even that great at all. There are a lot of badly pressed LPs, unfortunately (especially today). And yeah, most contemporary albums pressed onto vinyl aren't going to necessarily bring you as much joy (sound quality-wise) as compared to pretty much everything pressed before LPs completely died out. Personally, I don't really give a crap. Most contemporary releases sound good enough that they're not 'bad' (they're on par with anything digital at the very least), but it's always great to find that one amazing pressing. But I listen to vinyl for a variety of different reasons, many of which were mentioned in this documentary. But I absolutely love the community attached to vinyl. I have social-anxiety that can sometimes be quite crippling as it tends to prevent me from doing things that I actually turn out to want to do, but I find that the passion of vinyl can work itself so easily into conversations. And I think it's just because there's so much feeling to it, and most of what people have to say about vinyl is really personal and purely opinionated (unless you're talking to an extreme audiophile). You know this, and the person you're talking to knows this, so knowing that there's no right or wrong, is there really anything that's technically invalid for you to say about it? It doesn't have to be a topic of fact-telling. It's like discussing art. I think that everything music can be is only legitimately portrayed on vinyl. There's something about it that communicates with us in a way that I think music should. You don't get anything like that with music-streaming (partly because there's no self-developing community that encourages face-to-face interaction and discussion), but it's also interesting that it doesn't really happen with CDs either, given that they're also a physical media. But that's a whole other mystery.
Marknetick
Agree
Very well put
Thanks
Awesome I wish you luck with your new store! it was fun to get all my WHO albums again
Great documentary!
Cool documentary! I really enjoyed it!
I bought 60% of my vinyls online because it's easier to get what you want with Amazon. The rest I go to a local store every 2 week and buy things I didn't know I wanted lol. The nice thing about that store is you can listen to records before buying.
Here in the UK , Djs have always used it , well , some of us are .
UK has very little Records as people just want to push one button MP3 .
Most of the lathes have been ditched and will not be re-built due to cost.
The only Hype we have is S.M.A.R.T PHONES !!! yess the ZOMBIES .
I grew up in the 50s lived the most of my life with records and CDs. Now I’m on Spotify and Apple Music I’m so happy. Well I guess different strokes for different folks. I was in the Artillery when I was in the army I don’t hear anything Over 7000 Hz so all this high end stuff is wasted on me. I Experienced it all. I’m a happy camper with digital music. You can keep the records and CDs.
I got a little cd, lp, and cassette collection. Physical music format is great to have
She is the coolest person I’ve seen in a while!
That was fun to watch. Thank you.
Used vinyl has the history factor as well. Who had it and where has it been? Fascinating .
Vinyl is nice but too expensive. I don't have the time to go loose hours to search old Vinyl. They need to bring the price down like CD's.
I've been buying vinyls for 2 month and I've spent more than 1k. I can't keep up like this.
The plural of vinyl is vinyl
@@Pluralofvinylisvinyls I don't care, This isn't work. French is my main language. But i won't forget.
Cool video, man.
I gotta fully disagree with the guy who stated that the recent Led Zep remasters are the same as all the other ones from past years, and that it's merely a marketing tactic.
However, have no doubt that the new 180 gram vinyl thing that everyone is releasing now is such a tactic.The weight of the vinyl makes little to no difference to the sound in my opinion. I'll give him that much.
That being said, the recent LZ deluxe album versions have much more detail and clarity than they've ever had before. I have pretty bad hearing from cranking my headphones all my life, but the difference is quite noticeable even for someone like myself.
For example, When The Levee Breaks on LZ IV...you can hear all of these tiny details toward the end of that song that I've never really noticed before. It sounds terrific. With the older LZ releases, the instruments and details are a little bit more muddled together. Page and his engineers did a fantastic job with these new remasters.
I don't really know much about recent releases from other artists, so I can't speak to any of those, but this guy's ears must be pretty dull not to notice any improvement on the Zep albums.
I just hope the new vinyls are mixed and mastered for Vinyl and not just dumb copy of a CD. For the price they ask for it I really hope they put the work in.
Thing is, right now, I can buy THREE CDs for the price of ONE vinyl LP. I’m age 70 and grew up on vinyl, but what’s a guy to do now I’m not Earning Vinyl High Cash?
It'd be nice to see a little quality control in new pressings.
A flawed format has been revived, who would have thought
Just love the experience of collecting vinyl
Snap, crackle and pop lives
Your thought is the same as me complaing in games about game fog , blur, stupid effects which make a really bad player but you might do this with snap crackle pop and your hering -this is about see peer through that and vinyl is way better than current digital if you can do it , i cant with games
20:05 Lol, this is a bad argument 😂
grooves lifestyle!! love the video
Great Doc!!
@20:07 the video shows a CD vs vinyl sound wave. The files illustrated are not conclusive because the CD file appears to have been extracted from a modern CD with massive compression (google 'loudness wars'). The narrator incorrectly concludes that a CD has narrower dynamic range. It does not.
Also Digital cannot clip. Clipping causes audible distortion. A digital file can reproduce sound waves beyond the range of human hearing. The real issue is the replay. The CD file should be from an analog source and certainly 'pre loudness war'...Most people have NEVER heard high end audio replay on either format.
Some vinyl sounds terrible, some vinyl sounds great, shop wisely
CD’s are sonically consistent, not necessarily better or worse.
Comparing apples to oranges
True story she will look for things for ya she keeps an eye out for S.O.D. for me.
Streaming = sampling
I will buy it if I like it
There can be a huge difference in a re release or an original in sound quality. There can also be a big difference in who masters and puts it out. Not a question as to is there really a difference or not - its a fact no question about it. Mp3's ruin a listening experience.
Do people actually buy vinyl from big box stores??
Great doc. btw.
I buy all new (1980'-present) music on cd and buy all the older stuff on vinyl. I get a sense of nostalgia listening to old music on it's original format played on an old stereo. It's like a time machine for my ears :)
Don't forget you own the vinyl, you don't own digital...
that My Chemical Romance is beautiful.
But most vinyl records sold today have a digital source so digital master probably 24 bit pcm or DSD
@@WithScienceAsMySheperd music that is on the charts today. Most people are of the opinion that they were recorded digitally from the beginning and that this has been the case since the 90's
Is this Nathan for you?
---------> 14:44 = me lol
My choice of drug since 1970 has always been vinyl.
I like crack
@@Pluralofvinylisvinyls I like bathsalt
the guy @19:00 doesn't understand audio..the sight of a graphic should make any audio fan shudder...so should it too when he lifts the disc from the TT whilst it's still spinning and then proceeds to hold the album on the edge with his fingernails...I said in a previous post that 99% of people who own vinyl do not know how to care or maintain it, and this hipster poser is the perfect example of that...Ironic that I'd already stated in a previous post what the 'new wave' of vinyl fans were...This poser is the perfect example of that.
Vinyl BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Records are fine but they definitely need to start making some better new equipment so much of the newer equipment is not very good.
“Initially viewed as a fad”... said by no one initially.
@1:20 Who on Earth sets up their equalizer like that guy? It must sound like shit.
Mayhem!
how its so low quality :D seem like it's been filmed early 2000's
how does this video look like its made 10 years ago wtf
Castle Grayskull 1:30
Initially viewed as a fad? People existed before computers!
However, vinyl records have shorter playing time and this can be seen as a disadvantage
Used vinyl = Affordable entertainment
It's a living thing.
The reason I dumped my huge vinyl collection is they are a BITCH to move!
02.50 why would anyone set an EQ like that?
ewwwwww
All I hear Is "There's So Much Available there's No Choice Anymore" What You have got to realize Is, The Music that Is Available Is just the Rubbish put out by the Record Industries. I have a Channel on Here and I get Massive reaction from the People Who Stumble on It. I Put up Records that are only Available on The 45 Singles and No where else.
I saw you had a little George Duke and Narada Michael Walden.
@@bkkersey93 Those were Requested by Members, I would not put them up normally.
You got the jay-z al “bum” lol 😂 the grateful died guy.. this main stream bs! Lmao
15:00 hipster
A well mastered CD will always sound better than the best vinyl. What you are comparing is a CD from the "loudness Wars"! This is unfair and misleading to those who do not understand either media and is poor journalism!. I challenge you to compare a first issue of DSOTM vinyl, and first issue of DSOTM CD(AAD)....
They take this to seriously,The other guy his room got bunch of alien lights.In there heads they think like they're rock star but they're just ordinary people wasting too much money for the records.Id rather travel around the world.
It is a fad. Absurd prices and mediocre quality will eventually cool or kill the trend. A CD comeback with a return to sanity (vinyl does NOT sound better) is somewhere around the bend.
Gimme gimme records is one of the worst record stores in la always got scratched and warped records there
It ain't no fad son
so many people buy vinyl because they are posers..it's mostly hipster kids trying to show how 'right on' they are and buying into some imagined retro chic cool that they actually know nothing about because they weren't there..As a middle aged man, I find it hilariously cringeworthy.
I agree with you to a certain extent, but won't fight anything that advances the vinyl format.
simon lloyd
Disagree, not their fault they were not born in the record era
I am moved to see that this format has peaked their interest and they want to learn more about it
Their days are not spent trolling social media but actively researching music finds
OK once and for all... vinyl records are not the perfect sound source because after 10- 20 spins they all emit non musical noise from the grooves that only gets worse the more you love your imperfect artifact.
stevearle
I know it is so bad that it is good, which just makes it more real.
Wish I had seen this when this originally posted. You mean you collect or collected "albums, records or LP's." They're MADE out of vinyl not called vinyl. Has been since the inception of records. Millenials are the idiots who have to try and rename everything.
Yeah! those damn 40 year olds being idiots!
CD>>>>>Hipster fad