Records

[Altaria]

Do you guys own a record player? Do you listen to any records? If so, how much more do you like it than the way we listen to music nowadays? (Mainly digitally?)

My husband and I have a record player and quite a few records, mainly just classical but we also have some Frank Sinatra. I love it, it has such a classic feel to it and I love the way it sounds compared to digital music.

 

[maccrash]

I own two record players and probably, like, 100 records? my collection's pretty small for the time being but it's Ever-Growing.

I've found that the notion of IT ALWAYS SOUNDS BETTER ON VINYL is not always correct, like if you've got 35 minutes of music shoved into one side of vinyl it's gonna sound not as good. whatever format the album was intended to be pressed to is what it's gonna sound best in. however that being said man if you've got a good press of something it's gonna sound absolutely killer on vinyl.

I think CDs are the most ""practical"" form of physical music. I have a few hundred, probably. buuuuut I mean sometimes I'll buy a record just because I love the album and think the album art looks cool blown up. it totally depends. BOTTOM LINE: records are cool. CDs are cool.

 

[Esper]

Right now I'm looking across the room at every album by David Bowie in vinyl format. They're not mine though I do get to listen to them whenever I want. Usually I don't because it's a hassle to get the records out and all that. I only have a few things on vinyl myself like some Gershwin and other classical stuff that I got for really cheap. Oh, and I have the two Babymetal albums, too. xD

Me, I'm not an audiophile so I don't really hear a noticeable difference between digital this, analog that, mastering whatever. As long as it doesn't sound muddy or too loud I'm fine with whatever.

 

[Cay]

Yeah, i have one (an audio-technica LP120) and probably around like, 30 to 40 records (i just started my collection fairly recently). i don't necessarily have any specific reason to get them, i just like to collect things and im quite a fan of album art.

 

[gehringgame]

Audio nerd here ^^ I have music spread across a variety of media. Analogue music is certainly very gear-specific. Poor quality record, turntable, or speakers can show the format's flaws. However, get a good record on a good turntable, play it through some good speakers, and it will have a warmth and fullness that digital can't quite replicate.

 

[Guest123_x1]

For a few years starting in the mid-2000s, I bought a record player and some 45 RPM singles used to start off my vinyl collection, getting records at places like Goodwill and Salvation Army. Eventually, I began collecting some 78 RPM singles (which are actually a whole 'nother league because most of them were made of fragile shellac-based compounds, and that format was phased out in the late 1950s-early 1960s) as well, whenever I could find any. I have a few albums as well, but don't really care all that much for those, far and wide preferring singles.

I don't play records very much these days, although I have transferred several of my 45s and 78s, as well as a few albums to the computer, and sometimes listen to those transfers. I even did clean-up work on some of those transfers so that I could burn them to CDs.

There are a few songs that I have on both vinyl (LP and 45) and CD, and I actually prefer listening to the vinyl versions most of the time. The LP and 45 versions of the songs I have in both analog and digital tend have this "punchy" sound to them (most 45s from the 1950s and 1960s were mixed in a way to make them sound better on AM radio, which was still the most commonly listened to broadcast format back then).

 

[Sektor]

Whipped Cream and Other Delights.

I bought my brother a record for his birthday. I thought the cover was pretty funny. It's a woman covered in whipped cream, and that's about all she's wearing, but she's showing less than you than if you were at the beach *shrug*

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I told you it was a woman covered in whipped cream. What did you expect?

There was an estate sale near me a couple months ago and they had, not one, but two of this very album. The albums actually not that bad. I thought it would be really 'B-Movie' like, but Tijuana Brass is pretty swing-like. Give it a go.

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