1961, a small summary

[Al Kaplan]

Pink Floyd, the 'Dead, The Doors, Cream and dozens of others SCREAM for the vinyl sound. They weren't written for that harsh digital sound.

Then there are all the blues singers from as far back as the twenties right up through Bob Dylan. Slide guitar and harmonica on digi? You gotta be kidding...

I still have about 150 12" vinyl. Nice stuff!

 

[cosmonot]

I graduated college in 1962 in EE. I studied very little about transistors and yet three years later I was designing all kinds of electronics with integrated circuits. I bought a Yashica Lynx 5000 and I am still using it today.

The 1960's were the golden age of technology growth.

In 2004 I graduated with an EE and minors in CE & CS. The majority of my core EE classes were in analog design. It's funny that our current world of cheap and fast digital processing is producing a need for engineers with good analog backgrounds. What we touch/feel/hear is grounded in the analog domain -- but getting the data in and out of that little black chip is something where the code monkeys can't always pull their weight.

So yeah my guitars are hollow, my amps glow, my phography makes my house smell like fixer, and my music is giant black platters that are going to cost a fortune to move and a royal pain to load onto my iPod. No telling where I'll end up after I restore that tube reel to reel that's down in the basement... But first, we start with the wire recorder!

 

[ully]

In 2004 I graduated with an EE and minors in CE & CS. The majority of my core EE classes were in analog design. It's funny that our current world of cheap and fast digital processing is producing a need for engineers with good analog backgrounds. What we touch/feel/hear is grounded in the analog domain -- but getting the data in and out of that little black chip is something where the code monkeys can't always pull their weight.

So yeah my guitars are hollow, my amps glow, my phography makes my house smell like fixer, and my music is giant black platters that are going to cost a fortune to move and a royal pain to load onto my iPod. No telling where I'll end up after I restore that tube reel to reel that's down in the basement... But first, we start with the wire recorder!

I know what you mean. Later in my career as a design manager I wanted some engineers to do some A/D and filter designs for me but all they knew was digital so I had to go back to analog design and do it myself.

 

[George S.]

About 10 years ago I was running around trying to find a record turntable to replace my I don't know how old one- It was my father's from the mid to late 50s- yikes! --45-50 years? I had no luck after a couple of weeks of searching and finally had to travel to NYC to find a store that sold them. And now they're easier to find and vinyl is even being pressed again, go figure!