Vinyl records? Really?

[Fasglas]

I haven't seen one in a long time. No longer even have the means to play one. I did, at one time. (Thorens/Ortofon)

Never had or heard one that could match a CD's quietness.

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Vinyl record sales are at their highest since 1996 (http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-11-27/vinyl-record-sales-hit-an-18-year-high)


Vinyl record sales hit an 18-year high

Sales reach over a million for the first time this millennium thanks to British bands including Arctic Monkeys, Oasis and Pink Floyd.



By Ellie Walker-Arnott
Thursday 27 November 2014 at 12:37PM

In 2014 you'd be forgiven for thinking the music industry is all about online charts and digital downloads, but the latest figures released by the Official Charts Company reveal a corresponding boom in vinyl record sales which have reached an 18-year high.

More than one million records have been sold in the UK so far this year – a number which is expected to rise even further by the end of Christmas. We haven't bought that many since 1996, back when cassette tapes were still considered technologically advanced...

Sales have been driven primarily by the Arctic Monkeys (whose LP AM is the biggest selling vinyl of 2014), Jack White and Pink Floyd, with Oasis, Status Quo and David Bowie also contributing to the impressive figures.

"In an era when we're all talking about digital music, the fact that these beautiful physical artefacts are still as popular as they are is fantastic," Martin Talbot, the managing director of the Official Charts Company, said on BBC Radio 5 Live.

"It's really remarkable. We're seeing it come back as a significant earner for the music industry as well. Only five years ago this business was worth around £3m a year. This year it's going to be worth £20m."

Whether because of an older demographic continuing to top-up their collections, or the younger generation's obsession with nostalgia and retro goods, there's no denying a resurgence of the record – although it's still a niche and relatively small part of the industry, with vinyl accounting for only 2% of the UK music market.

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interesting 1 question poll @ link.

[Aerovette]

The Fry's Electronics near my office has a pretty good selection.

I still have my turntable. There is just something warmer about non-digital.

[DukeAllen]

I never got into CDs :shrug: Give me vinyl or a cassette tape anytime.

[Sea Six]

*CASS-et

[MrPeabody]

I still have every record I ever bought going back to the early 60s. Around 200 of them. I have taken very good care of them and still listen to them regularly.

I have a 1971 Pioneer SX9000 receiver and a newer Onkyo turntable. I have downsized on speakers, just Bose 301s, but they sound good in the small spare bedroom turned den where the stereo is. I mostly listen with my headset these days. My headset is from 1972. Pioneer EAH40 with two-way speakers in each ear and tone and volume control in each ear. They weigh 3.8 pounds.:yesnod:

[NEED-A-VETTE]

Vinyl is making a huge comeback. Sounds way better, IMO.

Amoeba Music. Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood. :dance:

[Millenium Vette]

I still have every record I ever bought going back to the early 60s. Around 200 of them. I have taken very good care of them and still listen to them regularly.

I have a 1971 Pioneer SX9000 receiver and a newer Onkyo turntable. I have downsized on speakers, just Bose 301s, but they sound good in the small spare bedroom turned den where the stereo is. I mostly listen with my headset these days. My headset is from 1972. Pioneer EAH40 with two-way speakers in each ear and tone and volume control in each ear. They weigh 3.8 pounds.:yesnod:

OH HELL YESSS!!!!

:seasix:

[MrPeabody]

OH HELL YESSS!!!!

:seasix:

I've seen refurbished ones on Ebay go for as little as $250. Pretty good bang for the buck. Lots of wattage, inputs for two turntables, two auilliaries, microphones, outputs for three sets of speakers, Reverb, excellent tuner, beautiful walnut cabinet. I've owned mine for over 40 years.

[OldSarge]

Vinyl records had some of the finest quality for sound and separation, unlike the crap you get from mass produced CD's.

[mrvette]

I used to own 2 8' stacks of vinyl.....sold a ton of it long ago, down to just a 4' stack, maybe 8 years ago sold them off also, then the TD124 and TD125 turntables /Ortophon carts.... My system used to be all McIntosh....sold it off maybe 6 years ago, just flat lost interest over the years, still have a 2'x2' drawer of CDs though......that I never listen to.....
My stack of McIntosh speakers consisted of TWO ML2c's in each channel, make that FOUR 12" woofers, per channel, I didn't NEED no 'sub woofer'.....

the amp/preamp were Mac also 400 watts RMS per channel fed by a dedicated 20 amp line on the power amp.....

I got into the hobby 60 years ago, and my sister's hubby was head of Recorded Sound Division of Library of Conngress, and as such was pushing Altec or JBL speakers and Mac amps.....so into transcription tables and trying to preserve the National Music Collection, like it's part of history also....

and when CD's came out a few years before his passing, he really thought they were a revelation, HUGE IMPROVEMENT in sound quality, and near zero distortion.....all through the 60-80's he was first name basis with all the opera stars, and symphony conductors....Sis still has all the signed autographs of the masters of the era.....

So I believe him when he said, because I heard a distinct improvement on my system......

So this vinyl craze is krazy.....enjoy your distortion...and hiss-pop off the surface, and cleaning dust off the needles.....


:rofl::rofl:

[Barn Babe]

I sold all of mine when I was "cleaning house" after my divorce. I really regret doing so. Selling the records, not the divorce.

[Dan Dlabay]

I still have my turntable and several hundred albums. Still play them. I ordered and received my 3 box set of Led Zeppelin's remastered first 3 albums and got them in vinyl and cd.:cert:

[simpleman68]

Digital media is certainly cleaner and more defined but I still enjoy spinning some old vinyl for nostalgia sakes. :yesnod:
Scott

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/simpleman68/Vette%20Stuff/20141017_140817_zpszmjkfufh.jpg

[Grey Ghost]

I still have crates of albums, some boot-leg stuff. Most are still in wood peach crates. The best thing I could find to keep them in back in the day. Old stereo equip. with tubes fetch high dollar at estate sales. I scored a pair of old Pioneer speakers awhile back. They weigh about 65lbs. each. Turns out the sell in the $600 range and are sought after. I have a couple of old receivers, but need to find a good turntable and needle. A high quality one makes a big difference in sound. And nothing converted to digital will give you that range like vinyl and good old equipment can.

[Wathen1955]

I still have my 70's setup. A Pioneer SX525 with a Pioneer Quadralizer Amplifier QL600. The SX525 I bought when I was 17 and had my first job as a teenager working part time. Saved the money and bought it in 3 months time. After I got a better job, I bought the QL600 and also bought some quad vinyl including Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon. I still have this setup, but it's been disconnected and sits in my garage.

It all still works. Planning to set it up again when the wife and I move sometime next year to northern CA just west of Sacramento. It also includes over 250 vinyl albums I still have.

[NCC-1701]

I still have every record I ever bought going back to the early 60s. Around 200 of them. I have taken very good care of them and still listen to them regularly.

I have a 1971 Pioneer SX9000 receiver and a newer Onkyo turntable. I have downsized on speakers, just Bose 301s, but they sound good in the small spare bedroom turned den where the stereo is. I mostly listen with my headset these days. My headset is from 1972. Pioneer EAH40 with two-way speakers in each ear and tone and volume control in each ear. They weigh 3.8 pounds.:yesnod:

I have a pioneer SX1050 in perfect condition that weighs a ton.....:lol:

and I still have a great turntable I wonder if you can still get needles for them...

I also have Infinity Kappa 9's

a phase linear auto corralator (sp)

2 tubed amps from Carver 1000 watts per channel.

and lots more old crap...

[NCC-1701]

I don't hear clicks and pops anymore because I'm half deaf from years of loud music....:lol:

[mrvette]

I have a pioneer SX1050 in perfect condition that weighs a ton.....:lol:

and I still have a great turntable I wonder if you can still get needles for them...

I also have Infinity Kappa 9's

a phase linear auto corralator (sp)

2 tubed amps from Carver 1000 watts per channel.

and lots more old crap...

I don't hear clicks and pops anymore because I'm half deaf from years of loud music....:lol:

I used to have one of them also....along with a Phase 5000 tuner....

and I now suffer tenitis that hi pitch noise in my ears....wipes out my listening pleasure, and greatly contributed to sale of gear....

:issues:

[Millenium Vette]

I have a pioneer SX1050 in perfect condition that weighs a ton.....:lol:

and I still have a great turntable I wonder if you can still get needles for them...

I also have Infinity Kappa 9's

a phase linear auto corralator (sp)

2 tubed amps from Carver 1000 watts per channel.

and lots more old crap...

I have wanted a Pioneer SX-1250 since I first laid eyes on the magnificent beast back in 1977. They still bring all the money. I still have the SX-550 my parents bought the family for Christmas that year.

[CORVETTE]

I'd have to count, but have probably 700-750 records, some old enough to just have 1 side pressed. Most though, are from the 50s-70s. I thought about just taking them to the store, Second and Charles, but they have a crate maximum per day. I should probably catalog them, first. :sleep:

[mrvette]

Lemme finish the rest of the story, my old BIL at Library of Conngress was involved in sound preservation, at the time I was in HS, I would go down to visit him and hang with the 'big boys' at the recording/transcription studios....

Way early radio shows were recorded on huge platters of aluminum, covered with black acetate so except for the diameter, they looked like 'normal' records like I bought in the store .....well the acetate was peeling off the aluminum, and to to pitch them or try transcribing to the wheel/wheel tapes, which also was using acetate tape, because vinyl stretches and distorts the sound even on their huge Ampex 350 transports, just like in the recording studios.....

And so a conversation with the guys doing the research on sound preservation techniques, and I said at least my vinyl will not come apart, and they countered that their research proved that the chemicals/paper/glue in the making of the album jackets were greatly contributing to the destruction of the vinyl discs they contain, and to in the storage facility they ran them under climate control.....

Keep in mind, they talking decades and so it's been decades....

My BIL at the time was excited about CDs because of not only small size, but they not deteriorate over time was the hope, and methinks they right.....

Keep in mind under Federal law, two copies of each record sold in the USA had to be donated to the L/C for archival purposes, like copies of all books sold...same shit.....

:dance: so just because you all think your records are safe all stacked in the shelves.....don't bet on it.....YMMV of course....


:issues::lol::cert:

[Sea Six]

I just got another 45 rpm record for my 1956 Seeburg VL200 jukebox this afternoon.


:cool:


http://www.thevettebarn.com/forums/members/sea+six-albums-crap-picture1379-vl200c-12.jpg

http://www.thevettebarn.com/forums/members/sea+six-albums-crap-picture1380-vl200c-09.jpg

[Grey Ghost]

I just got another 45 rpm record for my 1956 Seeburg VL200 jukebox this afternoon.


:cool:



That is sweet! :seasix:

[Sea Six]

It sounds phenomenal. Original vacuum tube selection circuitry and amplifier.

[snide]

I still have a box of vinyl in the basement, but don't have anything to play them on.

[mrvette]

I just got another 45 rpm record for my 1956 Seeburg VL200 jukebox this afternoon.


:cool:


http://www.thevettebarn.com/forums/members/sea+six-albums-crap-picture1379-vl200c-12.jpg

http://www.thevettebarn.com/forums/members/sea+six-albums-crap-picture1380-vl200c-09.jpg

Have to talk to another Vette club friend here to remember the guy's name, but there was a fellow who transfrred out west Florida, him/wife were into Coke Cola machines, and those style Jukeboxes.......been a while....their house was a FUN place to hang at.....

:seasix:

[Kerrmudgeon]

Still have all my old records and a good turntable and stylus. Heck....my old player piano still works great too! :rofl:

....but this new Win8.1 SUCKS! :rolleyes:

[mrvette]

Still have all my old records and a good turntable and stylus. Heck....my old player piano still works great too! :rofl:

....but this new Win8.1 SUCKS! :rolleyes:

I remember one of them associated with my sis in either Bowie Md....or Pa. many years ago....something strange about the scrolls, as being different than the typical scrolls, so harder to find/play.....too many decades to be too specific on a topic too far back....

:rofl::seasix::hurray:

[BADRACR1]

Technics Direct Drive, linear tracking turntable. Still have a few hundred vinyl albums ranging from Jethro Tull (from 1968 to the late 80's), original Beatles discs, Boston (including a DJ sample copy of the first album), Stones, Styx, tom of 60/70/80's stuffs. Buncha singles, too. Some have only been played a couple of times. I always taped them and put them up. Nothing sounds like a new vinyl album.