Bought my first vinyl in years...

[G8rDMD]

It was an impulse buy... Was spending the day in Asheville and came across an actual record store--yes, a store with stacks and rows of traditional vinyl LPs :cool: I decided to buy my first vinyl in years, Nirvana's "Live at Reading" album. Man, I forgot how GOOD vinyl sounds! Don't get me wrong, I love CDs and the digital age, but there is some kind of extra warmth that comes through vinyl :dance:

[LATB]

vinyl has soul :yesnod:

[G8rDMD]

Now I've dug out my old collection of 45s. Got a ton from the early 80s when I was a kid and have a bunch from the 60s when my parents collected them. The Beatles, The Animals, Bread, Mungo Jerry :cool: Great way to spend a Sunday morning :dance:

[Skia]

Great store, they have records last time I was there.

Edward McKay Used Books & More, Winston-Salem NC — Welcome! (http://www.wefeedyourhead.net/ws/)

[78SA]

I found an unopened one of this at Play It Again Sam's in Macon, GA.

http://files.myopera.com/szymon27/albums/569249/Pink-Floyd-Dark-Side-of-the-Moon.jpg

[Sea Six]

I like to look for the half-speed mastered LP's.

They're like finding gold. :yesnod:

I have two antique jukeboxes that play 45's. You can still buy new 45 records, and new 33's as well.

http://members.cox.net/apgiapgi/vl200c_01.jpg

http://members.cox.net/apgiapgi/100C_81.jpg

[78SA]

I like to look for the half-speed mastered LP's.

They're like finding gold. :yesnod:

I have two antique jukeboxes that play 45's. You can still buy new 45 records, and new 33's as well.

http://members.cox.net/apgiapgi/vl200c_01.jpg

http://members.cox.net/apgiapgi/100C_81.jpg

:cool1:

[G8rDMD]

Great store, they have records last time I was there.

Edward McKay Used Books & More, Winston-Salem NC — Welcome! (http://www.wefeedyourhead.net/ws/)

Sweet! Thanks, man--I'll have to make a day trip and check that out :cool:

[G8rDMD]

I like to look for the half-speed mastered LP's.

They're like finding gold. :yesnod:

I have two antique jukeboxes that play 45's. You can still buy new 45 records, and new 33's as well.

http://members.cox.net/apgiapgi/vl200c_01.jpg

http://members.cox.net/apgiapgi/100C_81.jpg

Nice :cool:

[Skia]

Sweet! Thanks, man--I'll have to make a day trip and check that out :cool:

Let me know when that is. :yesnod: I'll always take a trip there.

[G8rDMD]

Let me know when that is. :yesnod: I'll always take a trip there.

:cool: Fair enough :cheers:

[G8rDMD]

I like to look for the half-speed mastered LP's.

They're like finding gold. :yesnod:

I have two antique jukeboxes that play 45's. You can still buy new 45 records, and new 33's as well.

http://members.cox.net/apgiapgi/vl200c_01.jpg

http://members.cox.net/apgiapgi/100C_81.jpg

Just noticed your vintage Coke signs :cool: I just bought this little beauty and am waiting for it to be delivered... Vendo 81A, all original and in working order from 1955 :hurray:

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s60/g8rdmd/Coke20Machine20120copy.jpg

[themonk]

You broke down and bought a $6 record, you rebel.

[G8rDMD]

You broke down and bought a $6 record, you rebel.

Well, I realize in Canada you guys are still rockin' the 8-tracks...but with us being in the digital age here, it's nice sometimes to go retro :rofl::rofl:

[themonk]

Well, I realize in Canada you guys are still rockin' the 8-tracks...but with us being in the digital age here, it's nice sometimes to go retro :rofl::rofl:

Wait until I install the 8-T in my '81 Camaro, can you say boys in the bright white sports car. :dance:

[G8rDMD]

Wait until I install the 8-T in my '81 Camaro, can you say boys in the bright white sports car. :dance:

:rofl::rofl: :cheers:

[Sea Six]

Just noticed your vintage Coke signs :cool: I just bought this little beauty and am waiting for it to be delivered... Vendo 81A, all original and in working order from 1955 :hurray:

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s60/g8rdmd/Coke20Machine20120copy.jpg

That is EXACTLY the one I'd like to have. How much did you pay, and what kind of condition is it in? Is it still R-12?

[kingpin]

Man, I forgot how GOOD vinyl sounds! Don't get me wrong, I love CDs and the digital age, but there is some kind of extra warmth that comes through vinyl :dance:

vinyl has soul :yesnod:

It's called distortion. :dance: :D

:leaving:

[LATB]

I love the old vinyl...

I had one hell of a collection, but sold it all before I moved south.

[bradc6]

Just noticed your vintage Coke signs :cool: I just bought this little beauty and am waiting for it to be delivered... Vendo 81A, all original and in working order from 1955 :hurray:

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s60/g8rdmd/Coke20Machine20120copy.jpg

Very nice.

Here's my Vendo 39 from 1956.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e95/brad8647/Misc/CokeMachine002.jpg

[Wathen1955]

Remember when quadrophonic (discrete) LPs came out in the early to mid 70's? I have the Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon and a few others in quad. Only problem is I don't have the hardware setup anymore. Required a special pickup cartridge that goes up to 50kHz that picked up the extra tracks on the vinyl and a decoder.

http://pixhost.info/avaxhome/df/49/000a49df_medium.jpeg

I haven't bought a vinyl LP since the 80's.

[kingpin]

I love the old vinyl...

I had one hell of a collection, but sold it all before I moved south.

A few years ago I was going to buy my first record player. I then decided after seeing all the gear I had already amassed, there is no way in hell I would be able to afford it.

:rofl:

[G8rDMD]

Very nice.

Here's my Vendo 39 from 1956.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e95/brad8647/Misc/CokeMachine002.jpg

Sweet :cool:

[themonk]

Got any Elton. :dance:

[LATB]

Got any Elton. :dance:

I had GBYBR & MMATW :yesnod:

[Bill]

vinyl has snap, crackle and pop :yesnod:

Fixed.

[mrvette]

Yeh vinyl is like AM stereo, remember THAT?? the left channel had all the hi freq pops and clicks, the right had all the lo freq pops and clicks....

play a record about 5 times even with the finest elliptical stylus of the times, Ortofon, Shure, who EVER, and listen close on a GOOD system, not some Klipsch junk or worse yet AR.....

all you all gotta know there was only ONE name in audio worth a flying flock....

McIntosh.....

and my Brother In Law was head of music division of Library of Congress.....

he knew music pretty good, and swore that my McIntosh was the Best most accurate sound he ever heard.....and they had ALL the hot brands....JBL, Altec, Klipsch, AR, you name it.....
and a recording/sound PRESERVATION studio in the L/C building within walking distance of Cap Hill.....

and when I bought CD's as just plain simpler to handle, cars, home, no hassles, and sounded BETTER.....he immediately agreed....

he died in '85 cigs and cancer related crap....

:sadangel:

[Truck Guy]

vinyl has soul :yesnod:Nothing like a few clicks and pops :D

I still have about 300 LP's

Now I have to crank up the Thorens and listen to a few... :cheers: