So vinyl isn't dead eh?

[happy ears]

Skeptic, you know how it goes those days become weeks then months followed by years and centuries. With out knowing your age I know what you mean. Apparently I have been left in the dark ages as I listen to CD's and records when I should be using MP3's and computers. I have been told that computers are better faster and cheaper, however I must be buying the wrong ones. Mine do not last that long and are not worth 10 cents on the dollar when they are three years old. Also must have a preference for old style stereo equipment, should do a DBT some day.

Shouln't the answer be usually one groove per side, once saw a Monty Python record that had two grooves on one side.

Lastly you didn't think that all that wisdom that you aquired overtime came without strings attached. The price is old age.

Have A Great Day and enjoy the music as life is to short

[jbangelfish]

After that, who knows? My 22 year old son is very fond of it, along with a 23 year old friend of his. They have both heard it all of their lives and I expect it will live for them as long as they live as well. Who cares what a 19 year old Border's geek thinks or knows? If he's lucky, he'll get to hear some vinyl in his lifetime and maybe he'll then become a vinyl geek. Ya' never know. I know 30 year olds who have never heard vinyl but their opinions of music mean absolutely nothing to me. They listen on their HT systems and are happy. I've heard them and I would not be happy. To each his own.
Bill

[happy ears]

Since I have upgraded my turntable l am counting on vinyl being around as long as Classical music has been. Well hopefully not before I die or cannot hear anymore.

Many people have asked has anyone ever heard turntable rumble. I can honestly say that I could not hear it on my old Dual tt, however compared to the michell tt it sure has a lot of background noise. Could not really hear it before, but with a better turntable I noticed the difference. It is just more quieter, clearer and better. Now we will have to start searching for records again.

RGA if you read this what is the availability of vinyl in the Vancouver area. Presently I am just working down the road from you, well if you can accept the Alaska Highway as just down the road. Last month when I was in town picked a great day, wet, very wet all day.

[92135011]

I have been hearing a lot of good things about vinyl recordings.
My dad has an old technics back from the 80s that he doesnt use any more. You guys think it's still good to go? Those needles dont go for too much do they?

I guess if I'm spending money on speakers and all that, I might as well try out vinyl.

[hifitommy]

thanks to the fools who dumped their LPs in the 80s, i have about 4-5k LPs acquired for 50cents or a buck each. i still get those prices in a couple of stores here in LA.

http://www.recordcollectorsguild.org...rd_stores.html

that site should help the rest of your that are so inclined.

i have two TTs hooked up to my arc sp3c, and a couple more in rest mode. several carts are mounted in headshells and ready for swapping, some MM and some MC.

i can go to virgin and tower and buy new vinyl plus other local stores have it as well. more and better TTs can be purchased now than ten years ago.

the death knell hasnt struck.

[DMK]

...let's see what Antony Michaelson of Musical Fidelity has to say. MF has just issued their first turntable... not in 1963, not in 1973 but in 2003. Anyway, Mr Michaelson had a few comments that are pertinent to the topic:

"If people think that digital sounds better than analog, they must be deaf".

"There is a groundswell of people who are fed up with all this digital crap and they just want to have something that sounds human".

This from a company president that has made numerous CD players in the past and have just now introduced their first turntable. Yes, vinyl is dead and so are the tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands of music lovers and audiophiles that have recognized its superiority over CD. We are as dead as the sound of CD's. The good news is that we are in audio heaven!

I like those quotes! The first one is a little over the top, however. I may start collecting these quotes like some of the measurement folks collect citations.

[hifitommy]

who is referred to on page 83 in the latest stereophile as PLAYING on a new SACD/LP project for stereophile. now THIS one may be worth buying. quite unlike POEM which i bought (LP) many years ago that had CRAP for music on it. that record was so bad musically that i cant tell you how good the sound is.

we shall see.

[jrflanne]

Hey happy_ears,
I have that Monty Python album. The first time I queued up the "other" groove, I thought I was going insane.