Vinyl

C-dog · 06-14-2004, 09:20 PM

I recently bought a turntable and started a record collection. Does anyone else collect vinyl? What are some of your thoughs on analog recording? Is it better than digital? Worse? Discuss!

I'll tell you one thing; of all the forms of music storage, vinyl records have the longest life-span (if you take care of them.) CDs and casset tapes are tied for the shortest life-span (!).

Grandmaster_Skweeb · 06-14-2004, 09:28 PM

If your into that kind of stuff I'd suggest you look up Fingathing. Kickass duo, a turntablist and a stand-up bass bassist.

amazing shtuff.

C-dog · 06-15-2004, 01:59 AM

I don't mean for DJ purposes, if that's what you mean. I mean collecting vinyl just for the hell of it. Audiophile stuff. Anyone here have a vinyl collection?

Sithdarth · 06-15-2004, 02:03 AM

My dad as just about every Beatles album in vinyl form. As well as some rare stuff be that singing Nun and about an actual ton of other records. He also as quite a bit of Reel to Reel and Casset tapes as well as an equally impressive cd collection. Me I have little to no interest in music for some reason.

Fifthfiend · 06-15-2004, 02:37 AM

Anybody who claims digital is better is a sacreligious America-hater and probably kicks puppies.

Illuminatus · 06-15-2004, 09:51 AM

DIGITAL IS BETTER!

*kick*

Sithdarth · 06-15-2004, 11:48 AM

Digital isn't better yet. It's getting pretty close though. In a few years digital may very well be better. Of course a lot of how a medium sounds has to do with the speakers you use. Like that Bose thing makes digital sound very good.

Toastburner B · 06-15-2004, 12:38 PM

We never go rid of my parents old record collection, if that counts.

Then again...we also have an 8-track player. It doesn't work...but we still have it. My mom is a bit of a pack-rat.

cruelty13 · 06-15-2004, 01:09 PM

My mom has a heap of records gathering dust in her mum's house. We can't listen to them, because we don't have any needles to use with the grammaphone (record player).

I think digital is better.

Fifthfiend · 06-15-2004, 01:24 PM

Quote:

My mom has a heap of records gathering dust in her mum's house. We can't listen to them, because we don't have any needles to use with the grammaphone (record player).

I think digital is better.

"I have all these CDs, but I can't listen to them because my CD player broke and I'm too lazy to get a new one. I think records are better."

Bull-hockey.

06-14-2004, 09:20 PM	#1
C-dog Soft Machinist Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: British Columbia, Canada Posts: 531	Vinyl I recently bought a turntable and started a record collection. Does anyone else collect vinyl? What are some of your thoughs on analog recording? Is it better than digital? Worse? Discuss! I'll tell you one thing; of all the forms of music storage, vinyl records have the longest life-span (if you take care of them.) CDs and casset tapes are tied for the shortest life-span (!). __________________ "You're innocent when you dream" - Song by Tom Waits "Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as under protecting it. Culture is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, like nothing since we attained fire, is genuinely new. Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion; each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it's supposed to nurture." - Judge Alex Kozinski

06-15-2004, 01:59 AM	#3
C-dog Soft Machinist Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: British Columbia, Canada Posts: 531	I don't mean for DJ purposes, if that's what you mean. I mean collecting vinyl just for the hell of it. Audiophile stuff. Anyone here have a vinyl collection? __________________ "You're innocent when you dream" - Song by Tom Waits "Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as under protecting it. Culture is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, like nothing since we attained fire, is genuinely new. Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion; each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it's supposed to nurture." - Judge Alex Kozinski

06-15-2004, 02:37 AM	#5
Fifthfiend for all seasons Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 19,409	Anybody who claims digital is better is a sacreligious America-hater and probably kicks puppies. __________________ check out my buttspresso

06-15-2004, 09:51 AM	#6
Illuminatus The Dread Pirate Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Where the wild things are Posts: 1,310	DIGITAL IS BETTER! kick __________________ Man, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is the extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada. -Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary

06-15-2004, 01:09 PM	#9
cruelty13 Bring Cthulhu to Estonia! Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: In a tiny country next to Finland that quite obviously isn't sweeden nor Russia and where it rains Posts: 662	My mom has a heap of records gathering dust in her mum's house. We can't listen to them, because we don't have any needles to use with the grammaphone (record player). I think digital is better. __________________ CTHULHU FHTAGN HEY YOU! Go over here and take a look at my pictures!

06-14-2004, 09:28 PM	#2
Grandmaster_Skweeb Doesn't care anymore Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 2,429	If your into that kind of stuff I'd suggest you look up Fingathing. Kickass duo, a turntablist and a stand-up bass bassist. amazing shtuff.

06-15-2004, 02:03 AM	#4
Sithdarth Friendly Neighborhood Quantum Hobo Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Outside the M-brane look'n in Posts: 5,403	My dad as just about every Beatles album in vinyl form. As well as some rare stuff be that singing Nun and about an actual ton of other records. He also as quite a bit of Reel to Reel and Casset tapes as well as an equally impressive cd collection. Me I have little to no interest in music for some reason.

06-15-2004, 11:48 AM	#7
Sithdarth Friendly Neighborhood Quantum Hobo Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Outside the M-brane look'n in Posts: 5,403	Digital isn't better yet. It's getting pretty close though. In a few years digital may very well be better. Of course a lot of how a medium sounds has to do with the speakers you use. Like that Bose thing makes digital sound very good.

06-15-2004, 12:38 PM	#8
Toastburner B Toasty has left the building Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Hiding...because I don't want to die. Posts: 3,936	We never go rid of my parents old record collection, if that counts. Then again...we also have an 8-track player. It doesn't work...but we still have it. My mom is a bit of a pack-rat.