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There is more vinyl than CDs just now!
I've seen vinyl in lots of places, even record players in the quirky gift shops.
Wonder if cassettes will return in 30 years time. |
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Cassettes are finishing I think. Records never really went away did they? DJs and the like always continued with them, and not everyone got rid of their records at home. With cassettes, most of their use was in the car or walkmans etc. Thats all gone now as cars have Bluetooth and usb etc and we all listen to walk man type headphones from our phone's etc
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I think it's great.
When the fashion finally dies out there will be a glut of high quality, barely played records on the second hand market for peanuts. Only a few years ago, to get your hands on a vinyl copy of, say, the first Crosby, Stills and Nash album then you would have to pay silly money for a mildew-y, tobacco-y, battered and scuffed copy from 1973 with some teenage girl from Wisconsin's name and address scribbled on the liner in biro. In six or seven years time we will be able to get a pristine, glossy, 180 gram, never played copy for less than a tenner. Not to mention the fact that there will be excess capacity in the pressing plants so we will be able to go back to the days where an underground band could press up a small run of LPs for a quid or two less per unit than CD. And the fact that ageing hipsters will be begging the likes of me to go round their house and give them a ton for their collection so they can make room for nappies and rusks and Fisher-Price stuff. Then, in twenty years, we can start the whole process again... |
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I've seen vinyl in lots of places, even record players in the quirky gift shops.
Wonder if cassettes will return in 30 years time. at least with tapes it's pretty universal that everyone agrees the sound quality is worse than CD, with more hissing, more wow and flutter issues etc, so folk don't bang on about it like those than think vinyl is better when technically it's not and it's simply a personal preference if someone likes it more than another format tapes were great back in the day for mixtapes and portability, but once minidisc came along that was the end of tapes for me. still have a few decks and one is plugged in and working, in case I need to rip something to digital. I didn't use cd walkmans half as much as minidisc, even when they did ones that played mp3s burned to data CDR's as proper mp3 players came along swiftly after. my first Walkman cd player used to skip like hell and drove me nuts. my sony pro Walkman was miles better |
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Stared a record collection a few months ago. Must be my mid life crisis. lol
![]() Removing the vinyl from the cover to player very carefully, does bring satisfaction and relaxation for some reason.
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I've seen vinyl in lots of places, even record players in the quirky gift shops.
Wonder if cassettes will return in 30 years time. |
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Are they bona fide record players though, or just turntables to convert vinyl to digital, which are not at all quirky? Can you even connect speakers to those things if you just want to play your vinyl?
Apparently a small firm in South Manchester had a complete high speed professional cassette duplication system in storage and is now making limited runs. Not sure where they are getting their tape from or the special cassette zero shells that come preloaded with a short length of leader tape needed for the automated tape loading system. The cassette company is called Tapeline, full details via Google! |
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I love the comeback of vinyl but I do think consumers are being robbed blind with a lot of the pricing. Spoils the fun somewhat, but that's the music industry for you. Not like they've been known for being reasonable for a long time now.
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I love the comeback of vinyl but I do think consumers are being robbed blind with a lot of the pricing. Spoils the fun somewhat, but that's the music industry for you. Not like they've been known for being reasonable for a long time now.
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And I've read a few times the quality of the pressings aren't what they used to be. But they are lovely to own and use regardless.
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As a long term enthusiast of vinyl, I'm still using my seventies hi-fi system, what concerns me is that a lot of young people have been attracted to vinyl because of the novelty.
It saddens me that their experience of it will be via the proliferation of what we enthusiasts call "crapaphones." Cheap far-eastern systems made specifically for that market. Not the best way to appreciate it. A year ago I would have said they would be better off buying a quality second-hand system on eBay, well they still would be, but they aren't as cheap now as they once were. Although I do play albums from time to time, on my system, 45s sound best on a "proper" vintage vinyl jukebox. I have two. |
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And I've read a few times the quality of the pressings aren't what they used to be
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This is really odd. Also the price of vinyl is now higher than cd. I saw Adelle album 25 was £18 on vinyl but £10 on cd or download. This is like video machines coming back and VHS tapes being £20 and dvd's being £10!
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FWIW Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack was released on cassette tape.
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Have still got a small collection of vinyl stored at my parent's house but have no desire go back to playing them again, cassettes even less so. Was a fairly early adopter of CDs and have never looked back, have now ripped most of them to hard disk which is much more convenient than having half a room full of vinyl.
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FWIW Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack was released on cassette tape.
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This is really odd. Also the price of vinyl is now higher than cd. I saw Adelle album 25 was £18 on vinyl but £10 on cd or download. This is like video machines coming back and VHS tapes being £20 and dvd's being £10!
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I think the vinyl novelty has already well and truly worn off according to those that monitor its sales. Looks like the kids have got bored with it (no longer 'cool') and are into the next audio 'gimmick' that occupies their attention for a few fleeting weeks.
http://www.whathifi.com/news/vinyl-r...s-drop-in-2016 |
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The record companies always ripped off the public. CDs when they first came out cost a fraction of what it cost to produce a vinyl copy, so they made them more expensive.
Most vinyl now is pressed in Eastern Europe, probably using the same equipment used in the sixties. Those of us of the "vinyl era" predicted it would be a short-lived interest of young people. You can't listen to "vinyl on-the go." |
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You can't listen to "vinyl on-the go."
Give me convenience or give me death.... |
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have now ripped most of them to hard disk which is much more convenient than having half a room full of vinyl.
I sometimes go to friends' houses and they are immaculate: no books, no LPs, no CDs, just... tidiness. If that's what gives them pleasure, fine, but I would rather take an album out of its sleeve and put it on a turntable than have to search for it on a device and then stream it to a tiny wireless speaker that at best produces a vague approximation of the original recording. But then I get more enjoyment from music than I do from seeing nice tidy rooms. |
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In defence of CDs I had a vinyl copy of a much loved classic jazz album purchased in my youth, that had long since been de-listed, I'm talking a couple of decades, as had thousands of others.
It had been played to death. Fortunately, the advent of CD meant that a lot of these albums were re-issued on CD. So now I've a copy and the advantage that in that form I was able to transfer it to a memory stick. |
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Well, it's tidier.
I sometimes go to friends' houses and they are immaculate: no books, no LPs, no CDs, just... tidiness. If that's what gives them pleasure, fine, but I would rather take an album out of its sleeve and put it on a turntable than have to search for it on a device and then stream it to a tiny wireless speaker that at best produces a vague approximation of the original recording. But then I get more enjoyment from music than I do from seeing nice tidy rooms. |
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FWIW Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack was released on cassette tape.
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personally I have thousands of records and cds but I have my music ripped to pc and I have great sound systems in two rooms. the crappy amp/speakers doesn't need to be part of having music on a pc, but it may often go hand in hand. personally I can find a track and play it much quicker on the pc than trying to find the record or cd, as I just type the name in the search bar and it pops up in seconds. I can search for hours to find a cd and never find it, or find months later a record I was looking for was in a different box. large collections can be a nightmare to look after and there are space issues to contend with. mind my rooms still aren't tidy, but if I had the space I would box up the records and cds and dvds etc and stick em out of sight. I can still play everything in as good if not the same sound quality from the pc
I've a few thousand mp3s on my laptop I can play through some bookshelf speakers. I've also similar numbers in a stick in the side of one of our TVs, I can play through its sound bar. I can play CDs through the sound bar in the same way. I've still got a vintage turntable, cassette deck and a 1980s hi-fi with big wall speakers. I've a few favourite CDs, cassettes and vinyl albums I keep downstairs in my "den," not enough room for them all. But mostly I play tracks this way, "it provides a nostalgia element." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXFX8TK3tjU |
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