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My main reason is that vinyl encourages me to not skip songs too quickly and listen to an album as a whole, instead of to songs I am already familiar with.
100% percent. It’s too easy to switch songs on our phones
A couple of different reasons. I will list them below.
1. Strong nostalgic feeling, my father and I used to listen together to his collection of vinyls
2. You are a lot more "invested" in an album/artist when you purchase their music, so often a persons collection of albums says something about that specific person.Rather than just skipping around on Spotify between thousands of artists.
3. A piece of artwork, the album covers can be beautiful and there should be bo shame in having them up for view.
4. I am starting to get tired of this 24/7 social media society. I do not want to be interrupted by notifications or such all the time. I like vinyls because they are analog. I do not need an internet connection. Much in the same way why I enjoy reading books.
5. Patina, the same way an old leather bag gets it color the sound on a vinyl changes over time. The imperfections created by listening over and over again gives the record a soul. A bond between you and the record. If you listen to it while you are sad or happy.. all those times it has been played is affecting itself in the same way it's affecting you. A live performance is never the same twice, neither is a vinyl. However digital sound is and that gives it a cold tone.
It is 100% to me the act of "putting on a record" that does it for me. It's not "what am I going to listen to while I do 'thing'" it's "what album am I going to listen to". I choose to interact more with the record. It's higher on the priority scale.
I kiss my records and then I fuck them
keeps me away from Social media and the internet in general, also it feels amazing to hold the much bigger artwork.
I was given the opportunity to take whatever records I wanted from my wife’s aunts house. I took them with the intentions to flip them. When doing the research so I could sell them, I would listen to the music online to get an idea of what it was. I became fascinated with the history of music and the feelings I would get for listening to the album as a whole. 3 years later, I can’t stop looking for records.
One thing I miss is having my double albums to clean the seeds out of my grass! The 60’s and 70’s would not have been the same without Vinyl! Peace ;)
For me, listen vinyl have to parts, one is emotional, is getting back to my 4-5yrs when my father give me a portable turntable to listen my records and to explore the entire home collection (about 80 lps). Later, he died when I was 9. After he passed by, my mum give me all his record, even those that he had in a separate collection. Another thing that was very important from the beginning was the act of listen a vinyl, take the record, place on the table and let the automatic mechanism do his job. Sit in front of the player and see rotate and look the loudspeakers each time the sound surprise me. Today, both things are important, the emotional connection with the fact that I start my own collection with my father's records and now I have more that I can place in this small room, and maybe someone on my family will continue the tradition of listening vinyl, I hope so. The other is the physic of the sound, how can a very limited format can deliver that specific quality of sound that is not perfect, is different, and this is not only nostalghia. I have friends that never listen record before, that came home and when they listen a vinyl record they open their mouth and make absolute silence, like if the don´t want to cut or break some kind of connection they established with the sound.
If you love music, then you choose digital, specifically meaning compact discs. Meaning I love MUSIC. But I'm not addicted to any rituals, such as sniffing the liner notes & dusting the vinyl.
Storing vinyl takes up more space, and has a potential for being scratched or damaged in other ways. A CD holds more minutes of music, so you need only one CD for the Braham's piano concerto #2, for example, whereas you'd need two vinyl discs for that, and you'd be interrupted between movements with a need to go flip the album, or even have your second vinyl disc ready.
The whole vinyl thing is most certainly novel engineering, from top to bottom, and digital is almost boring in that regard. I for one don't change my favorite music like I change my underwear. But if I did, then digital would always make it much easier, because there are SO very many ways to purchase the music, and make your favorites sort of "disposable" over time.
Vinyl is worth it only if you want to sort live in the past, and maintain your old nostalgic rituals. Ahh, yesteryear ...
Anything which vinyl offers in the way of actual music - the sound - digital offers the very same, only so much MORE of it.
If you want to hear the 20 or 25 hertz of the opening bars of Stravinsky's Firebird suite, then ONLY digital can accomplish that most satisfactorily. Moreover, any cymbal crash you might hear doesn't sound like merely a cacophonous noise. That's vinyl, and also analogue in general. Plenty of pop music also has "music" of 20 hertz. But it lacks any real musicality.
It just sounds “fuller”. Gives a more natural and “live” feel to it.
Just love it
@One Twosky: Nope.
I listen to vinyl when I just want to listen to music. There are no distractions like listening on a phone, on the computer or even casting from a music app to my speakers. It takes deliberate action to setup vinyl records to listen to. So you are making a commitment to listen and enjoy the music instead of having it as a background noise while you are working away on something else. Listening to vinyl gives me a chance to zone out and disconnect from my heavily connected 21th century life.
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I enjoy vinyl for a couple of reasons. #1) I enjoy record stores themselves and I want to support, but at the same time not spend too much, so I always try to pick up something, even if it's cheap. This leads to the second reason. #2) There's a lot of interesting music from the original vinyl era, and some that never made the transition to digital (until me). One of my favorite records is one 60's by a French couple that I never would have heard of otherwise. I enjoyed so many of the tracks and was surprised how many have been covered more recently. And that was a record I just picked up because it was less than 5 bucks and the cover caught my eye, which is reason three. #3) The album art is art. But you already talked about tangibility in you vid. Lastly is reason #4) Supporting the artist. If I really like a small artist, I want to buy their music to support them and if they offer a record, that's what I buy. Especially if I pick it up at a concert, there's memories attached to it, because often the small artists connect with fans at the merch table and the conversation while the record sleeve and sharpie is being passed around lasts a little longer
As a bonus, I know that records can sound better than a digital release, but it's not inherent to the format. Sometimes the digital and vinyl use different masters and the vinyl master often has had less compression applied to it, giving it more dynamic range and a more natural, realistic sound
Go to stores and by CDs. You will get better sound.
My dad was a navy man too back in the early 80s and was able to get into audio and he's carried that on for the rest of his life, but where I come in is I have the best memories of spending time with him listening to all these records on his well maintained vintage stereo system, its pretty a great way to connect with people because of the way society is now, think eating at the table with the family level of connection :)
Definitely agree! Thanks for sharing!
Similar experience...was talking to my pops about a turntable I wanted to buy. He went into garage & gave me his Lenco L75 he bought when stationed in Germany. I looked it up, found the website Lenco Heaven & went on to fully trick the turntable out. It is now in my living room on display & I agree 100% with what you said about how it becomes a topic for convo & brings music & friends together the way no other medium can. Great video!!
Vinyl does actually sound better in my opinion. Also, having the album cover art work, and often, the lyrics to the songs, that I could read on the back of the album, which was really cool to have. Albums are just a larger experience, than pulling out an 8”CD, which I usually can’t read the print on.
About 7 years ago (when i was 11) my brother (then 14) has really taken a liking to music and talked to our dad about how cool vinyls look, etc, and thats when he showed us his ~20 year old vinyl collection, along with his gramophone. He only took a few minute to set it up with the stereo and we were hooked; the tangibility, the big album art, and the changing of the pitch and the speed of the disk spinning as you interact with the pitch shift knob, it all just felt so satisfying. We have, a few years later, bought a modern day Vinyl and, even though the quality is exactly the same as playing it through spotify, something about its tangibility, the poster, the artist info inside of it, just felt so much more authentic to the music on the record.
I still mostly listen to music through spotify/mp3 but i dont go a week without listening through the record player too
Vinyl has a lot of qualities beyond the actual music that add to the experience. Yes, I said experience, cause listening to music is an experience. Here are two scenarios:
1) You say, "I want to hear the news [blank] song." So you open Spotify, type it in and BAM, you're listening to it. \\ while doing something else. You've got your fix, yay. Then you move on to the next song, or just allow it to randomly pick out music for you. No effort, no love, no anything put into it. Just quick fix of music to get you through whatever you're doing.
2) You say, "I want to hear [blank]." So you go to the music store to find the vinyl. The thrill of the hunt as I call it! You find the album, it gives you that sense of accomplishment and success! You may even find another album as well, bonus score! So you take it home, you're looking at the artwork, reading about the band and songs, etc. You put it in the vinyl player, you move the needle and press play. You sit back and enjoy not one, but an entire album from that artist. You're now experiencing the entire feeling the artist wanted to portray, not just one part of it. And you've put effort, time and heart into finding and playing this album that it now feels like a reward. And since you can read about it, see pictures of the band, etc you now have this connection with the band and the music that just can't be felt from example #1.
Vinyl is an experience, not just a way to listen to music. Music has become just a random thing you can add to your daily routine. But when you have vinyl, there's only one spot you can listen to it (wherever your vinyl player is of course) and it takes a quest, a journey if you will to obtain and play it. Gives it meaning, purpose and a sense of accomplishment before you even listen to it! This is why the music industry is garbage and no one cares about talent anymore. Music has become and accessory. It used to be an experience, but now it's just something you add to your task. Vinyl allows you to really feel the music, become part of it, and best of all, it gives you the respect for the music that just doesn't exist with digital.
Vinyl helps us experience the music in a way that was intended by the artist. Imagine a live concert but instead of seeing the band, you're doing something on a computer for your job, or doing dishes at home, etc. The band didn't write that music to help you get through some other task! It was made for you to take time from your day and lose yourself in the music. Vinyl brings us back to that feeling and in a way forces us to experience the music the way it was intended. These new generations have no respect for music anymore and it's sad.
@AdamOS Retro : If you need some external factors such as an inconvenient medium / playback device to force you to listen to the music and make music listening an experience ... you got some problems bruh. If people actually enjoy listening to music, then it won't matter what the format and playback device is. What you are talking about here is passive vs. active listening, which has absolutely nothing to do with vinyl records and digital formats whatsoever. It's a habit.
@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. You're point is mute. I never said I needed it, I prefer it. That's like saying I love cake with icing cause it adds that sweet flavor and you telling me "you should just like cake by itself". I don't need the icing, but it's preferred. So i'm sure you're just an internet troll looking for a snack but you missed it by a long shot here haha Try again though, weak minded trolls are my favorite!
@@AdamOSretro : You just have no clue what you are talking about.
@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Right haha And you think that YOU do? haha Welcome to the internet folks, people like this exist. Isn't it grand?
@@AdamOSretro : You have some problems bruh.
You just described it perfectly. Everytime people ask me why I buy and play records instead of downloading the music, I don't find the right words or don't know how to explain them. Well now I do! So thanks for that!💕
When it comes to vinyl for me, I like to look for the best most recommended pressing such as the Pro Use Japanese pressing of Dark Side of the Moon, or hell the same can be said about certain pressings of CD's.
As strange as it is, The smell of records. Growing up in a house with a lot of records and then collecting some; there is a smell to the old vinyl records. Now since smell is well known for bringing back memories, it makes sense that the smell of records takes me back to listening to Led Zeppelin II sooo many years ago. One of my really good friends that has passed away loved Jimmy Buffet "you had to be there"; when I listen to the digital without the nuances of a record , it feels like I am missing something. But vinyl takes me back to sitting with Ray, cold beers in hand and just cracking up about everything and nothing at all.
Hi great vid, I read most of the comments 😀
Would just like to add,
when playing a record, weather I've heard it before or not, I always feel that sence of
excitement/ anticipation, just before the needle drops and then the wait,,, for what seems like an eternity for the first track to play,
But when it does,, and everything sounds good,, well that's what it's all about. 😎
Great video, makes me want to get a record players and some of my favorite albums on vinyl
For Records to sound as good as they can be you need a decent player and HiFi Amp. My Father had a very good set up which he bought in 1973, all Akai separates, Phono deck, tape deck, Reel to Reel, tune and the Amp. My experiences as a kid with this set up made me appreciate music in all formats. He's still got most of these today and we're due to dig them out and check what we need to do to get them working again, so connection with these old formats are emotional and my current set up is my connection to that family bond.
Did the old stuff still work ?
If the sound quality is better? I do not here it,but when I see and feel the vinyl in my hand i feel the respect for the artists that is, in my opinion lost these days.
I can relate. I had an uncle who passed down to me his vhs porn collection and when friends come over its a lot more personal than just pulling up PornHub. Especially the vintage midget porn. There's just something about a tangible media that digital can't replace.
My main reason is to support artists and get the better master. Masters on vinyl are usually more dynamic.
its just a great feel to have this huge physical thing that is actually the album that you like. the sound is different (I like it cause of that and I’m def not an audiophile) and the ‘ritual’ of playing it is kinda heartwarming. downside for me is that it has escalated to a whole new level financially. I’ve started buying records at the age of 16, which was 1998. and the prices now are kinda ridiculous in comparison to the late 90s.
I had quite a collection of vinyl albums in the 70's and 80's, I now own a handful of cd's. Spotify gives me a greater collection of music that is easily accessible in seconds, add to that the space an album/cd collection takes up and it works for me. Each to their own though.
One of the biggest reasons is I love the artwork and packaging. I had been collecting cds until I clued in "hey, the art is bigger on vinyl". That was enough
This is the one that makes me care about vinyl at all outside of originally analog mastered music. I wish they'd rebrand BR-A into an audiophile format with LP-sized artwork. Call it BR-LP or some shit. The higher dynamic range would be nice too, maybe sound engineers wouldn't loudness war it for a few minutes.
Same here.
As an Digital audio enthusiast first and foremost, I agree with you that vinyl brings a tangibility to music that we all love. In fact , I decided to be very selective with what I own on vinyl so I know that I have my most beloved albums that hopefully I can enjoy when I retire one day and maybe even pass on that love of music to my Daughter one day.
It has a more alive feeling sound to it. I love my records. It's one of my 2 big hobbies and I look forward to collecting and enhancing the equipment that I use to play them on
I am from Sri Lanka. All my life, I have always been curious about owning a turntable and vinyl. Just had the issue of affordability and a proper place to set it up. However, the 90's onwards the digital media took over and we sort of forgot about this as even people who owned records or a TT stashed them away from public eye.
Traveling to the UK and Europe in recent times (especially around 2016/17), I've noticed that turntables and records were available. I was so thrilled to find out that TT was manufactured again, records were being pressed. I was so excited that I checked around if I could perhaps find records back home and I was so impressed that a lot of Srilankan folks owned and collected vinyl records.
I am convinced that listening to vinyl is more than an experience, you get to value music, the artists, the lyrics and the history and stories behind these artists. It was never the same as listening to the digital media. The sounds from vinyl gives you that warmth in the music, the bass coming out beautifully and the music feels "real". And there's always something lovely about the album sleeves and the physical aspect to changing the sides, placing the cartridge and even cleaning the dust particles to it.
To me, music with vinyl has made a new difference in my life. It has been a life changing situation.
Since the record companies seek to release albums with the volume ever louder and louder and compressed, resulting in a distorted clipped sound, without any dynamics, the vinyl ends up sounding better since its physical limitations do not allow the record companies to ruin the music in the same way that is possible in digital formats. Even being superior to vinyl, the digital format ends up sounding worse because it allows so much manipulation that the record companies end up ruining everything just to make it sound louder. Search for loudness war and you will understand how the music labels are destroying audio quality just to make it sound louder.
I limit myself to only things that were originally released on vinyl. The way I figure, they were designed with that medium in mind so I like to know what they sound like through that lens.
For me its not always the sound quality. Sure, vinyl records sounds great, but do they sound better then CDs? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. For me its more about collecting, buying the records, take them home, clean them, put them on the turntable, put the stylus on the record, and just sit down and relax while listening to the music and in the middle of the record go and flip it to next side. I do also listen to CDs (and also digital files sometimes), but for me vinyl records and CDs are 2 different things, CDs I mostly listen to in the background while I do other stuff. When I listen to vinyl records, its just for listening, then I do nothing else at the same time. Great video by the way! I like the way you talk about your experience with vinyl records.
1)Vinyl is redundant if the recording was done digitally. It is however the best for stuff that wasn't done digitally cause the digital files are taken from a recording of the master tape which adds steps to the final product and just deteriorates quality.
2)Also, Vinyl only goes bad if you let it. If maintained well, it can last over a century, it's made of PVC, that shit lasts.
Vinyl made from digital files isn't always redundant considering that the vinyl release often gets superior mastering. Also, it isn't the best medium for things done pre-digital because a single A to D conversion incurs much less loss to the signal than the LP mastering/pressing process.
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of course that won't change your opinion, but your understanding of how digital works is flawed.
@@kacperuminski1547 maybe he means that if you have an early pressing of a vinyl records that was made pre digital, you are close to the sound of the orignal master. And since vinyl was the normal and best way to listen (excluding the small percentage of high end reel to reel users), the vinyl was what the engineer and band wanted.
Now with new stuff, the vinyl is guaranteed not to be brickwalled
I remember when I was in college and Fred Fennell had just come back from recording his first CD with Telarc. This was 1978, and it was Telarc's fourth recording using this new technology. Once I heard it, this became the first CD I ever bought. I had a huge vinyl collection, many of them rare recordings, and now everything I own has been converted to digital. I would never go back.
I only vinyl for display purposes. Most modern bands make limited pressings of vinyls and since I always gotta collect every album in every format for my favorite bands, I love to collect the limited pressings. One of my favorites is a single for Here to Stay by Korn, a Hot Topic limited edition blue disk. It's just cool to have more than anything. All the things people say about vinyl being so great as a medium I think fit right at home with CDs, which is my favorite medium. Just like how you have stacks of vinyls in your living room, I have many shelves full of CDs, which are a great conversation starter. I think CDs are a lot better for looking through since they're nice and easy to read the words on the spine of the jewelcase. Do you think I can't sit down and enjoy an album just because I don't have to dust my discs and set the needle? Think again!
This is exactly why I want to get into vinyl collecting!
Best Dark Side for me is the 30th anniversary on CD. Sheer listening pleasure, nothing to spoil it all the way until the end. Quite honestly and I say this because I have listened to several vinyl versions. Plus beautiful new artwork, along with the old.
For me it’s about supporting and artist. I could get their digital album but the tactility is more meaningful.
Excellent, thank you. Back in the 70's, it is what we had, plus 8 tracks of course.
To have friends over, to have girls over (!), you really were sharing something and displaying your personality. Also rolling doobs on an album watching the seeds separated from the material was how you did it. And the cover art! At 65 I still have those albums and the memories.
I’ve never experienced that playing a record once and that being the only time it sounded that good,I’ve just kept cleaning with my brush every time I play it, I have records I’ve played for years and my family has that I’ve kept in good condition that still found fantastic through my system. Vinyl does sound better in my opinion.
In the second half of the 1990's I heard about SACD (DSD) soon to replace CDs. So at the same time, the Internet became a popular technology to exchange information. I started reading about SACD technology but soon ran into discussions about vinyl LPs. SACD was delayed and seemingly not coming out as soon as I wanted, so I got a turntable and jumped into vinyl. I discovered my parents old albums from the 50s and 60s which they didn't play much when I was a child, because they were busy. I was the last of 5 children and they didn't have much time for records by then. Next, I bought handfuls of LPs at second hand stores and yard sales. I actually discovered music I would not have considered buying if I had to pay the prices for CDs. I really enjoyed the discovery. Vinyl is like a hands-on window into history and discovery. And it sounds good too!
With digital, we never get turn table rumble, no tics and pops, nor any pre and post groove echo.
And repeated use of a compact disc won't physiclly wear it out.
Thanks for this. I like what you said about no one giving a crap about your streaming playlist but if you share your vinyl collection with them it means something. Very interesting. I have a few records and have been debating about if I should spend the money on more. Food for thought. Thanks!
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good video man. i think you convinced me to buy my first vinyl
The record's companies chosed CD-format so they could make better profit eg sell a cd that cost cent's to make and sell it for vinyl prices -and back in 90's they sold them for double the price of vinyl but some bands didnt allow this price marketing like Beatles or Pink Floyd , mainly the biggest bands or classical music
thanks for sharing your story about this. My only experiences with vinyl were listening to some read-along Disney stories as a toddler around 1988-1989 and I've never really found a reason to look into them. Also as a child who primarily grew up through the 90's with digital everything, I've always felt that vinyl no longer had much of a place as far as casual music listening since from the science point of view it is inadequate for reproducing the full human hearing frequency range, and as you mentioned wears out with each listen. I like CDs because they still provide a level of tangible appreciation, but also they're a great separate backup copy of your music if your hard drive / cloud backup dies or something like that.
i have that album myself, i listened to disk, and moved to tape as listened a lot to tommy Vance on radio one. i bought an expensive tape machine at the time a teac. now, much it is digital
computer or online information.
Thank you for sharing your story, i honestly wasn't expect that kind of move
Analogue things like vinyl(although digitally recorded nowadays) degrades gracefully giving the feel that songs can be heard that way only for that short amount time and its the time to move on unlike digitally recorded songs which we get rid of after getting borred of that beautiful song that we thought would be our most favourite.
I think that the experience of listening to vinyl is partially credited to the fact that it IS imperfect.
There's a ritual to taking care of the object in your room, and the payoff is rewarding in that you know your process allowed it to work well.
Collecting is kind of like gardening to me. These pretty pieces of cardboard and vinyl that contain music that I picked out.
Albums I love so much that I simply want to hear it in a full analog medium. A lot of this IS in my head, but that's where music happens anyway.
Aside from that, some albums actually do just sound really good compared to their CD counterparts. I've got hifi deezer with a focusrite to compare,
and I genuinely just love the sound that some albums can give me in vinyl in comparison.
For now, I think I'm more or less satiating my curiosity, in a very fun way.
The impracticality of spinning a record on a turntable and not being able to just pause it whenever you want is part of it to. It forces my impatient
self to just listen instead of skip tracks. Some self control may nullify this advantage, but who's got time for that?
As I take my active part in picking the record, placing it down, positioning the needle, and allowing the tonearm to lower, I view the somewhat literal
clockwork 'perform' for me. In this way, it almost feels more real than a digital file.
There's a lot of small reasons to do it that add up to a fresh new way to listen to music for me.
It depends on if the album was specifically mixed for vinyl but I do tend to like listening to vinyl more than digital.
It's the first time I agree with you entirely. I don't own any vinyl today but I used to listen to them a lot back in my teenager years and I kind of miss the whole experience/ritual of listening to a record.
It has alot to do with the fact that sounds better, at least to me. Remember the song can only sound as good as it was recorded. I think that's why some don't even notice a difference. Alan Parsons and ELO are ones that come to mind that was always high quality,
Hey Jashua. I appreciate what you said. I have been collecting vinyl(I still have some of my fist lp’s) since age 7 and there is an emotional tie and a story to them all.
Hi Joshua, I'm interested to know a Budget sub $1000 setup for Vinyl. what speakers, what amp, players, what headphones.
I like what you said about having something to take care of and pass on. My dad is letting me borrow (pretty sure he didn’t give them to me) some of his records. I like the idea of taking care of these records.
On one site a man was talking about getting into vinyl had cost him financial ruin. I tell you, that ain't gonna happen to me. When it comes to paying $40 and $50 for records, you can have it. What you get for your money just ain't worth it.
josh, one of my go-to reasons for woning many LPs is that each one doesn't get played often. i intentionally don't play ANY music too ofter lest i become bored by it. i DID do that with the ventures album Walk Don't Run and couldn't listen to it for decades and then i had to buy a CD ciot because of the record condition.
vinyl IS my preferred listening mode because it truly sounds better. this i learned early on as my first cd was dire straits brothers in arms which i feel is a fantastic sounding cd. about a month or two after getting the cd, i found a cut-out LP for a dollar and i could see no reason not to get it if for no other reason than a comparison. what i heard when i put the LP on was totally unexpected. i thought MAYBE the vinyl would ba as or almost as good as the cd. turns out it was SEVERAL steps better albeit ten minutes shorter.
i had never intended to replace all of my music with cd but i did actively buy a large quantity for the musical variety and much of what i bought was new music to my collection. one of the ways was to join the Columbia record club and Record Club of America (BMG=RCA) but i always had my vinyl base. they were in excellent condition and so was the playing equipment for it.
a recent purchase was the score of American Beauty (kevin spacey) which is in addition to the cd i already had. again, it is fuller and has something that was first expressed in the absolute sound magazine--verisimilitude. the heart of the word are the word portions very and similar. that is--verisimilitude to the original sound. if you don't agree then it may be your preference OR you need a little bit better turntable/tonearm/cartridge combination. suffice it to say that that idea is well situated in my belief system.
hi rez files and SACD/DVDA are very close and can be a good substitute for vinyl playback if well executed.
...hifitommy
Vinyl is a fun hobby for me right now, albeit expensive an expensive one at the moment. But there is a connection and experience the comes from owning the record and playing it from beginning to end.
I enjoyed seeing more of your personality. Nice vid.
It's too difficult to tape a nickle to the read head of a hard drive, I need a tone arm.
I agree whole heartedly in your assessment of the tangibility and total interactive experience in dealing with vinyl records.
I've noticed that when listening on headphones, the soundstage feels larger on vinyls, maybe it's because of the more extreme panning.
I don't regularly listen to vinyl, I only did a few times on my sister's cheap non-audiophile record player. I thought it was very mid- forward, with very rolled off treble and bass, which I loved. That's why vinyl has me interested, but I don't know if "audiophile" record players have that same mid-forwardness that my sister's player did.
i dont like the pops and crack sounds that vinyl has (unless the record is in mint condition and 100% clean).
i do understand the collectors aspect of it tho, take good care of your vinyl and it will last longer than you.
but i just wish the SACD would come back.
sorry for the divorce part...
it certainly doesn't sound better...at least not with my budget, ha. For me it's a personal experience because my relationship with music changed when I found my parents vinyl collection. That Dark Side of the Moon album is the one I think of particularly because that was one of the first records I listened to and it was just different than anything I had ever heard at that point. It was a distinctly different music experience and sparked a massive change in my tastes. Also with an album like that, or maybe an Abbey Road I refuse to listen to individual songs on their own, they have to be listened to together with the rest of the album. Vinyl helps me not cheat that experience. I've certainly listened to a digital version of DSOTM many many many times, but taking that same vinyl I found as a kid and putting it on my record player now as an adult is just a different sort of enjoyment.
In my opinion,vinyl sounds amazing,not all,depends as always on how/who recorded it,but the only problem with it,in my opinion is that you have to spend money to really enjoy it,put it on a cheap player,and arrrr well not good,put it into a 10k system,it blows digital away,it just sounds real,in my opinion,good luck Josh,love the vids
Vinyl does not wear out if played on quality arm/cartridge/TT even hundreds of times. How is it records I bought 40 years ago continue to sound better as I upgrade my system? Handled properly it can be the most audibly satisfying media.
Thanks so much for sharing your story Joshua!
This was a great video Josh. Made me closer to eventually getting into the record thing. Good work man.
you should also point out most new releases also include a digital download so you get both a high rez digital and analog versions.
to me vinyl sounds better, instruments sound more natural, they sound real, digital sounds kind of robotic to me, its covers more frequencies but, it doesn't really matter
@Siddharth Chaudhary : There is something wrong with your ears then. :)
@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. yeah, maybe, my ears are over sensitive to high frequencies and volume, sound is so subjective.
I honestly don't understand what you're talking about. I have no story of using vinyl, being 33 year old in 2021. I hate inconvenience of vinyl in all respects possible that you mentioned at the beginning. BUT I am a musician and the one with pretty attentive ears in my opinion. one tragic day I had the misfortune of hearing a digitized version of the song I know from bar to bar, made from vinyl here on youtube. believe me I had no intention of getting into this retro vintage ridiculous world of lps. but when I heard things I had never heard before on that record, literally you could hear reverb dying out in its entirety in a busy mix I was floored. and here I am with a decent turntable and 60 lps of my favorite albums. I have yet to hear a hi res that beats that. and I mean specifically the era between 60-80s. my guess those recordings were massacred by mastering engineers somehow for digital formats. so I don't romanticize vinyl I just happen to hear it sounds clear and detailed on songs I've loved for so long.
I can't seriously say that a vinyl sounds better than other formats available. But vinyl definitely help me listening music. I can't buy a great number of records on vinyl because of the price so when I get one I deeply listen to it, I'm more emotionally and psychologically involved into music than with a CD or a digital file. Streaming music helps me picking the real albums that I want with me for a long time. I can touch that medium, I take care of it. And it makes the difference to me
From my point of view, the vinyl is similar with smoking a tobacco pipe. It is not only about the sound (or the smoking) it is also about the all habits, the preparations and all other things that are done before and after audition. Moreover, at least in my case, the vinyl is the sound of my childhood, with all the smells, thoughts and memories since then.
And by the way, thumb's up for your reviews!
A really honest story behind your interest in records. And it didn't contain any audiophile myths either! For me, records are just a bit of fun. And why not? :)
Actually , best sounding is BR Audio , and DVD Audio . But, I am 100% agree, LP records have....something else, I have to say ...soul.
what is BR Audio? thanks. also are all DVD Audio the same or is there a specific type?
I originally got into vinyl because I thought it was a cool thing from the past, but then it turned into an obsession, nothing is better than owning physical copies of music, yea stuff on your phone is fine, but nothing beats laying in your bed and spinning one of your favorite records.
So why not save space by going with CD's? Tangible, still a "talking piece" in the digital era, easier to attain, cheaper.
I think everybody DOES have a Dark Side of the Moon album! Just like Meat Loaf... Well, I grew up with vinyl. There was basically cassettes, reel-to-reel (sure, that was basically already obsolete by then) and records. And I've always had them, and I just kept buying them (and hundreds of CD's which I still also regularly play). I like the look, feel, artwork and sound of them. For me, they sound different. More rounded high-end, more 3D and more alive. More like an event... Perhaps that's different with a more modern turntable (I use a 1965 Thorens TD-124), but I just like it a lot. For me, digital tends to sound a bit colder, brighter and less lively. And yes, I'm fully aware that it could simply be my ears and my hearing. So be it. But that's why. I still have 3 TB of digital albums, 400 CD's, about 700 LP's and 600-700 7" singles. And do you really consider selling so many off if you have them? Especially when most modern stuff is also available on vinyl (I bought London Grammar, Khruangbin, Wolf Alice and Daughter lately on vinyl)...
I have some of my favorite albums on vinyl but only as decorations. I have never, nor do I ever plan on, taking the plastic off, and I don't own or plan to own a record player either.
Record companies must now cry when vinyl is back - heavy ,bad sound" , wear and tear , someone must do the covers and that costs money , and the big volumes of space the vinyl take to transport and it's so heavy - heavy crying from EMI saying" life sucks"
I'm about to get into this! I need a new art that hasn't been flooded with by people wanting to be cool.
I like vinyl because it is a tangible thing and not digital pits and if it was made years ago in analogue it should be reproduced in analogue taking an analogue sound and digitise it then reproduce it digitally is just wrong on vinyl.
In my opinion the needle 🪡 playing music out of a vinyl disk , producing the audio in front of your eyes is the closest you can get to real music instruments…. Its not pure reproduction,…. Its “music being produced “ in that moment , for you
I collect vinyls for one reason in particular, if shit were to hit the fan, like a giant EMP where to strike, my vinyls would be unaffected. Someone smarter than me could fabricate a phonograph, I would gladly share my record collection for access to that phonograph. We could probably become good friends, roast some longpig and make friends with locals to gain trust. Yum.
I grew up with vinyl - I bought my first copy of Dark Side of the Moon the week it came out (1973). I also switched to CD around 1980 for the improved sound quality. Comparing well done vinyl to well done digital, I don't see a single area vinyl does better. That said, I agree 100% with you on the "vinyl experience". I actually miss the handling, cleaning and even the snaps and pops some times. I'm setting my turntable back up for that experience, but will stick with digital for when I want the best sound quality.
how do you clean your vinyl records?
Great video Josh, thanks for sharing!
There's a really good video on whether or not vinyl has better sound quality URM Academy that explains exactly why vinyl is an inferior medium, sonically and technically. I think it's time to dispel this idea of the sanctity of vinyl and just admit it's fun to have physical mediums and the nostalgia factor. Which, fair enough - but if you're buying vinyl for sound quality, you're just wasting money, objectively.
Always wanted to figure that up on myself but I can't get my head around it
if it was so good why almost everyone got rid vinyls in the 90's?? I do not understand that disdain for CD
I recon the folks who got the best from there vinyl, and knew how good it could sound, when done right ! kept their records ( mostly)
Others jumped at the convenience factor of cd, and ditched the clumsy record, after all how many cars do you see complete with record decks,?
I'm not saying records sound better than cd, or vice versa, just my thoughts on you question 🤔
I own like 160 vinyls, wouldn't give them away for nothing, I gathered them myself, some bought new, some s.h., but... But!!!....
TAPE! That's the best, TAPE. I hate that I don't own a tape deck and the tapes that I would like to own and listen, only a cassette deck and cassettes that I enjoy more than vinyl. My two cents 🙄.
Excellent video... Vinyl is all about nostalgia. And I'm glad to hear you admit that it doesn't sound better, because it doesn't. People who like the sound of vinyl are the same ones who like the sound of tubes, but neither are more accurate. Both add harmonics, and that sounds pleasing, but it is not accurate.
Och! Pink Floyd "The Dark Side of The Moon" on Vinyl Wonderful! Wonderful product! It is! Yesterday when I have read a catalouge of Denon procucts. I read that Vinyl compared to CD has much more information of the music.This information suprised me.Because I was sure that CD includes more information of the music recorded on this disc compared to Vinyl. But it turns out that the truth is completly different from I thought about this matter. It's good ! Because it means that buying Vinyls is worth of people' effords.
Sooo... Let's continue this topic. I have few records from my dad who passed away when I was 3months old. I want to listen to them. Where do I start?
Sorry to hear that.
Try UTurn.. Inexpensive and will get you hooked on LPs. 100% made in America. Beautiful! You pick the one that fits your budget and taste. Good luck! I hope I help you decide. You won't regret it