Who Is Listening To Vinyl?

love this thread...

love this thread...

...but as usual with the posts here I find myself totally outclassed: isn't there anybody here who couldn't afford vinyl and went for cassette instead? 😕 Now that there are sites like Lossless Legs, my prized collection of bootleg cassettes is no longer relevant since it's all available for download in versions with better quality...😎

Only my second post here but I have really had a gas (in both senses of the word) reading the posts here. The community here with all its foibles is one of the reasons actually that I decided to sink my meagre sack of clams into getting a Bess R3A with CV 28/1.9 (using the VF for the GRD) CV 40/1.4 and CV 75/2.5 I'd been using a fixed system of a 24mm Natura Black paired with a 35mm Yashica T5D and was getting some decent results that went beyond the digital options available to me (GRD and Fuji F20). The only DSLRs that ever appealed to me in terms of IQ were either too expensive or else too bulky to ever want to carry (or both).

So yeah, the cassette collection has been numericalized (digitized). And maybe I will get around to posting a new thread about that gas (really want to gopher an R4 with some wider lenses plus maybe a ZM Planar 50/2, but I'd have to go clam-diggin' first! :bang: )
 
Welcome mllanos1111 and noimmunity!

Jenni - I may have to hate you. July is impossible to find here. Did you get an original 1968 recording or one of the re-issues?

- John
 
Hmmm, the vinyl word in posts?

I have lots of LPs ,but over the years the system dee-teriorated , dead Pink Triangle / Helius Orion arm [ original Linn beater ] ... in the loft ... Gyrodeck / Rega arm that never worked properly ... but recently got me a Graham Slee basic phono stage , and the really old Rega 3/ Acos / Grado Sig 8 is still going strong ... also my EAR 509 valve amps and tiny RCL loudspeakers , battered but not bowed [ Ls35a's with attitude - timeless ]. Sidestepped with cheap very ex-dem Linn Klassic Movie original version which is fine for cd / fm / and not too bad stereo amps ... dvd , `and user interface is terrible though !!! But films are less important ...
Am now in a position to upgrade / fix up the stereo OR buy an M8 ... this I REALLY do not like !

Vinyl or CD ? i prefer my classical Mercury pressings on vinyl , but I wonder if it's the dee-stortion that I have grown up with , rather than one better than the other ? Newer generatoins have a very different perspective about sound systems AND electronic picture capture devices ... [ not always Stereo or Hi Fi as I knew it , not always a camera as I know it . ]

Problem with vinyl is that not much new stuff is coming out ! There is limit to how many sets of Beethoven Symphonies , at silly money to collect - and play !

dee
 
>90% of my listening is vinyl. Very occasionally it will be a cd or an Ipod, but all my music purchases are vinyl (new and old). My wife buys CDs as does my daughter. I'll post a picture of my setup. For the aficianados here it is

Platine Verdier TT ? Schroeder Model 2 Arm, Allaerts MC1B cartridge
TRON Meteor tube preamp
Quad II tube power amps
Avantgarde Duo loudspeakers
Meridian 206 CD player
Leak Troughline tuner
PHY-HP cables

Charlie
 

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Good LP's sound better than bad CD's
Good CD's sound better than bad LP's

Good Lp's sound not like good CD's

Two different systems can be sound good!

You have to own them both, to hear the difference.

There will be no winner!

Like photography: digital or analog; each of them has its own excellent quality!
 
Joop van Heijgen said:
You have to own them both, to hear the difference.
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Did this once with Iggy Pop's Lust for Life album. Played the LP and the CD through the same system (a friend's recording studio, actually). The LP sounded warm and inviting, the CD sounded cold and sterile.
 
topoxforddoc said:
>90% of my listening is vinyl. Very occasionally it will be a cd or an Ipod, but all my music purchases are vinyl (new and old). My wife buys CDs as does my daughter. I'll post a picture of my setup. For the aficianados here it is

Platine Verdier TT ? Schroeder Model 2 Arm, Allaerts MC1B cartridge
TRON Meteor tube preamp
Quad II tube power amps
Avantgarde Duo loudspeakers
Meridian 206 CD player
Leak Troughline tuner
PHY-HP cables

Charlie
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Wow another nice setup. I guess it makes sense that people who are into RF and other esoteric photography are also into much of the same things like collecting expenive pens, Audio, original Art, musical instruments, etc.
🙂
 
I've been listening to vinyl for 7 years, but only within the last year or so have I started really buying more and more vinyl. I own over 300 LPs and 7"s (the term "45" has fallen out of favor lately, as more and more 7" singles spin at 33 1/3 RPM rather than 45 RPM). I haven't bought a CD in months, and will no longer waste my money on that garbage. When I used to buy a CD it would go straight to my iPod so I could have my music in an easy to carry format wherever I went and the CD would then get stuffed on a shelf and ignored. However, I still appreciate pulling a record out of the sleeve, sitting down with the lyric sheet and admiring the artwork. Its a wonderful experience. I love having something tangible and real in my hands. So now I buy the vinyl and take the music from P2P sites for my iPod. Vinyl will only continue to grow in popularity as CD's become more and more obsolete, especially with younger people like me who are upset with the soulless act of digital downloads. I've got some records by bands I doubt anybody here as heard of, but some of it will fetch upwards of $300 on ebay. Gotta love limited run first pressings. 🙂

I don't bother with any of that audiophile stuff, though. I own a few 180 gram records, but most of my collection is punk rock stuff, with raw, dirty recordings. I won't kid myself by buying expensive gear, because a crappy recording is a crappy recording whether its played out of cheap stuff or expensive stuff.

Oh, and if anybody cares (I doubt it), you can view my incomplete list of records here www.recordnerd.com/lists/bettersense
 
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I hear ya Kyle......never would have guessed you liked Hot Water Music...ha.

Maybe I should take my Mentors "Up the Dose" 12" up to wildwildwes' to give it a spin on something better than my crappy setup.

I will admit to craving a setup like wes'. Man....I've always wanted to see how one of those super-high end turntables sounds.
 
blw said:
I hear ya Kyle......never would have guessed you liked Hot Water Music...ha.

Maybe I should take my Mentors "Up the Dose" 12" up to wildwildwes' to give it a spin on something better than my crappy setup.

I will admit to craving a setup like wes'. Man....I've always wanted to see how one of those super-high end turntables sounds.
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I didn't even think anyone here would know who HWM is, are you a fan? They're one of my favorite bands, I love them. I was collecting their vinyl for a while, I had over 100 HWM LPs and 7"s, but eventually it got too expensive/difficult to try and find every color variation and gave up and sold some off. I've kept some of my most prized pressings, though.
 
Vinyl /CD settings

Vinyl /CD settings

I have two settings:
first : Maranz CD 5000
amplifier Ion obelisk 3
tuner Onix BWD1
speakers AR MST
second: Thorens TD160
amplifier ONIX 21
speakers AR2ax
Why: 1-Ion obelisk has a wide range sound from bass to trebble , it can be listened at very low level in the night not disturbing the neighbours, with this I do listen to CD , the sound is very clean but soft as all the american accoustic research from the 70's;
2.- Onix 21 is fabulous for its midrange , for the voices and with vinyl and these speakers you really go in the music,🙂 the different instruments are really 3D sounding, I listen to it during the evening when it can be a bit loud
Two differents setting and the whole costs 2500 euros (speaker and vinyl second hand)
 
Interesting thread! I use Zeiss Ikon and an audio setup by Conrad-Johnson (all tubes), Linn and Pro-Ac. I also have hundreds of LPs. Like the range finders, it seems that LPs are going through a renaissance with more and more new titles.
Garage sales seem to offer a lot of high-end recordings.
What I have done recently is to digitize LPs for some of my friends under the condition that I keep the LPs and they get CDs. For a few people I digitized a few of their favorite recordings and got their entire LP collection.
I am sticking to film and vinyl!
Zoran
 
I never stoped listening to LPs or casettes. Stiil have some really funky metal TDKs. But you know what I really miss? Open reel tape. I bet some of my old tapes sounded better that vynil and CD combined, but it could be just my memorex --oops, memories ;-)
 
micromontenegro said:
I never stoped listening to LPs or casettes. Stiil have some really funky metal TDKs. But you know what I really miss? Open reel tape. I bet some of my old tapes sounded better that vynil and CD combined, but it could be just my memorex --oops, memories ;-)
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Still got my Open Reel tape deck (Revox G-36). Don't use it much now. Also have Nakamichi Dragon cassette - whoaa! Tape is a great medium if played back on good kit - better than CD.

Charlie
 
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