Vinyl

[JayEgo]

Remember when we called them records?

I've got a whole load of reords still sitting in the loft but with just one record palyer in the house and that being in a lesser used room, I rarely listen to any of my earlier music anymore.

I wondered if anyone was still buying and listening to vinyl recordings or whether you, like me, have allowed CD's to dominate the music collection... Or even MP3's nowadayas!

Ja¥son xx

[Ian]

I have around 500 albums, of which around 80% are on vinyl, including a few rare enough that they'll probably never see the light of day on CD. Stuff is still being released on vinyl, & not only for the DJ market either, bands like Oasis usualyl release their albums on vinyl as well as CD (Standing on the Shoulders of Giants was probably the first triple vinyl album released since the 70s), and a lot of classics albums are being re-released on high-quality vinyl. A decent hi-fi setup with a good turntable will blow away a CD system of the same price (& probably higher priced too), but the turntable is the heart of the system. I recently got a new system & spent as much on the turntable as the amp, speakers & CD player combined.

Vinyl just has a warmer, more natural sound than CD, presumably because it's an analoge recording of an analogue sound, whereas with CD the original analogue signal has to be converted to digital (losing some of the original signal in the process), then converted back to analogue again so you can hear it. MP3 loses up to 70% of the original signal because of the compression used - if anyone tells you that MP3 is CD-quality sound, they're wrong.

Of course album cover artwork looks much better 12" square than 5" square too ;)

[-H-]

i think my kitchen and bathroom floors are coated in Vinyl or some such artificial material :devil:

seriosly though ... you only have to walk into ian's flat and be in instant danger of a vinyl avalanche or tripping over a stack of vinyl .... i wonder if they will ever station a st bernards team in there to rescue me in case of accident ;)

So when he says he has a lot ... he realy means he has a LOT !!!! :D

[Mausey]

We've got a lot of records and most of them have been transfered to cd. It's difficult to play a record in a truck. :D

[White Rabbit]

We have a cupboard full of records too, but a lot of them have been released on CD, and we have had some put onto CD for ease of playing too. Very very occasionally I take the ornaments off the cover of the record player and play a record.

Incidentally, did you hear about the girl with the record figure? 78-33 1/3-45? :D

Exits through little hole in middle of record :disguise:

[Ian]

Of course with old stuff being released on CD you get some odd things, like Man's album from the 70s, Two Ounces of Black Plastic with a Hole in the Middle which is now about half an ounce of silver plastic with a hole in the middle!

[SpaceCowboy]

I still have a few vinyl albums hangin' around. Most of my absolute favorites have been released on CD. The thing that really has me frustrated is that my all time favorite album by Charlie Daniels (Homesick Heroes) is out of print, and won't be re-released due to controversy about one of the songs.

[Dawn]

I was never much on buying albums, mainly because by the time I was a teenager, cassettes were the thing to buy. ;) I do have a small stack of 45's that I'm hangin' on to...not sure why, since I don't have a turntable anymore. It just seems wasteful to throw them away. :tilt: Same with my cassette tapes.

[JayEgo]

i think my kitchen and bathroom floors are coated in Vinyl or some such artificial material :devil:

seriosly though ... you only have to walk into ian's flat and be in instant danger of a vinyl avalanche or tripping over a stack of vinyl .... i wonder if they will ever station a st bernards team in there to rescue me in case of accident ;)

So when he says he has a lot ... he realy means he has a LOT !!!! :DI do remember the days when my room was like that! I had a mass of music from an early age and have continued to obsessively collect since! Of course, I was of the generation to buy mostly CDs, so my collection is made up of hundreds of these! Yes, the images on the front aren't as good but not having ever really had a decent sound system, CD's give better quality for me!

They're all alphabeticallised and chronologically ordered too!

According to my alphabet! :evil:

Ja¥son xx

[AnnMarie]

I still have a small collection of vinyl. Most of them, for sentamental reasons. Haven't listened to any in ages;Noturntable! :sad:

There is one problem that vinyal and CDs have in common. You can make it jump and put scratches into both if you've got a bunch on pre-teen and young teens jumoping around in time to the music!

[Ian]

Which is why you should really mount a turntable (and probably a CD player too) on a shelf fixed to the wall, where it won't pick up vibrations from the floor. I had mine like that before I moved here, haven't done it here yet, but as we have a concrete floor vibration isn't as much of a problem.

[AnnMarie]

Which is why you should really mount a turntable (and probably a CD player too) on a shelf fixed to the wall, where it won't pick up vibrations from the floor. I had mine like that before I moved here, haven't done it here yet, but as we have a concrete floor vibration isn't as much of a problem.

Actually, Ian, with my neighbors, that would be a WORSE choice. :sad:

The idjits pull up in their cars with the bass on their car stereos so loud, it's been known to shake my windows, wake my daughter on the other side of the house, and once even knock two of my dragons off a shelf! (Luckily for the neighbors, the dragons landed on the couch and weren't damaged. I'd have had to damage a few car stereos and maybe a head or two if they had been!)

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

I only have one record of my own, the Alvin and the Chipmunks, from when I was a kid :D But I can't play it anymore becase I don't have a record player.

[-H-]

I only have one record of my own, the Alvin and the Chipmunks, from when I was a kid :D But I can't play it anymore becase I don't have a record player.

Finaly ! someone with good taste !!!!! :erm: :bow:

tell me, which track or tracks have you got on this record? when will you again get a turntable so that you may enjoy the distinct sound of alvin and his brethren? :erm:

[Rabble]

I still call them 'records' and call the machine the 'record player'.

My mum owns that machine, so i'm a CD user.

I've told her I want it written in her will that i'll get that machine. :evil:

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

Finaly ! someone with good taste !!!!! :erm: :bow:

tell me, which track or tracks have you got on this record? when will you again get a turntable so that you may enjoy the distinct sound of alvin and his brethren? :erm:

Its been so long since I've heard it, I can't remember all the songs that were on it, but I know it had 'Walk like an Egyptian', 'Do you love me', and 'Money Money' I think my grandparents have a working record player, so I could play it there if I can find it. So much stuff has been misplaced after I moved, it'll take some time to find it.

[Bookfiend]

Actually, Ian, with my neighbors, that would be a WORSE choice. :sad:

The idjits pull up in their cars with the bass on their car stereos so loud, it's been known to shake my windows, wake my daughter on the other side of the house, and once even knock two of my dragons off a shelf! (Luckily for the neighbors, the dragons landed on the couch and weren't damaged. I'd have had to damage a few car stereos and maybe a head or two if they had been!)

Kind of makes you wonder if they have any hearing left. My parents live on an island that's hooked to the mainland. They live at the tail-end of it and you can hear the idiots and their car stereo's from the other side of the island.

Now on to said subject, my Father had hundreds and hundreds of classical music albums that he had bought over the years to play at a local radio station (back in the 70's when he was still with Social Security he would host a classical music hour interspersed with Social Security subjects like Medicare, Medicaid, etc.) and he just spent the last year going through all of his records to see which ones he wanted to save. They were running out of space to keep them and I think he finally pared it down to 150. What he did with the rest I don't know. He also had a collection of the front page newspapers from the whole of WWII. I "think" he finally donated the lot of them to the local library. Hopefully they were able to preserve them. And again he had to get rid of them due to lack of space (they moved from a big house (4 bedroom, 3 bath, 2 1/2 car garage) to a smaller house (1 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage).

[Mausey]

We still listen to the records on occassion. We've got a really good record player all set up just waiting for us. The only ones I can't play anymore are the 78's. Luckily we transfered all of them. I think we might even have an 8 track player in the garage. :laugh:

[Stewart]

i have a lot of records 33s and 45s i have michael jacksons thriller album picture disk where he looks like a good looking kid i dont have a turntable anymore so why am i hanging on to vinal i hounistly dont have a clue i think i might sell my collection on ebay might get a tenner for the lot ah vinal good tec in its day but a prefer cds :good: