Digital is the peak of convenience. Vinyl is the peak of the experience.
@NawMan357
5 жыл бұрын
Very well said...👍🏾
@crazycuts6891
5 жыл бұрын
@@NawMan357 That was VERY on point!
@utub1473
5 жыл бұрын
This should be top comment
@crazycuts6891
5 жыл бұрын
@@utub1473 Exactly!
@shenaniganslive603
5 жыл бұрын
Well said
@Camphouse21
5 жыл бұрын
There' s nothing comparible to the joy while digging boxes in a record shop and finally you found a tune you've been searching for long time, I don't want to miss this haptic feeling
@clinthorton306
5 жыл бұрын
A lot of us Boomers grew up listening to our parents playing records. A strong motivation for many of us.
@MrsAferova
5 жыл бұрын
I got my first turntable (old unit from '85) this week and today I finally played a couple of records for the very first time. It was SUCH an experience that I actually shed a lot of tears of joy. It's exactly what is being said in this video: music is an experience and that's why people are going back to vinyls. Digital music doesn't engage me as much anymore. It's handy, of course, but the whole ritual of putting a record on the plate, positioning the tonearm and actually enjoying music rather than making it feel just like a background noise... well, it's priceless :')
@chuckheinze7
3 жыл бұрын
I came back to vinyl because it slows me down. The process relaxes me. It reminds me of the times back in the 60’s and 70s. For me, a much nicer time. Listening to my vinyl records makes me happy! It puts a smile on my face.
@stevewiles7132
5 жыл бұрын
Records never left, people came back .
@steeltalon105
3 жыл бұрын
Amen
@asuperheronamedtony
3 жыл бұрын
well said. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@Kit_Bear
2 жыл бұрын
Hear Hear!
@phenomena17
2 жыл бұрын
best answer
@ramblingsadrift6477
2 жыл бұрын
Nailed it
@Kevinb1821
2 жыл бұрын
I just started getting into vinyl a couple months ago. I picked up a Denon turntable at Best Buy one day. Got a couple records from target. Besides the sound there’s just something about deliberately putting on a record that makes you really listen to the music. With my iPod and streaming for the last 2 decades. You play music and you kinda forget the music is playing. When you buy something physical. You just appreciate it more.
@richardsoos8902
8 ай бұрын
I do believe that cd sound is pleasant once paired with a quality dac. But listening to a record is like drinking pure water. I always listen to 3 complete records in a session as it is so mellow.
@mick_hyde
5 жыл бұрын
Still have my records from the late 60s onwards, never got rid of them. Bought a turntable last week, first time I've played a record in 20 years. Loving it, records are very special.
@cclip46
5 жыл бұрын
Dig in guy!
@Schlipperschlopper
5 жыл бұрын
Still have my 1960s studio turntable :-) kzitem.info/news/bejne/qmmXvGuwp5h5pKw&lc=z22gdh04ew2ufnzmbacdp430shmkdfbygkhf4tznuvtw03c010c
@ralex3697
5 жыл бұрын
Mick Hyde Agree! I get a big smile on my face when I play a record Cds are boring I’ll take the ticks and pops
@benjaminl.1417
4 жыл бұрын
You nailed the description of playing records Craig. Playing records is truly a ritual. I remember my dad and I pulling out records to play when I was a kid, looking through the album art, cleaning the records, the whole experience is so engaging compared to the "instant access" digital options of today. The whole process of collecting and playing records keeps me engaged to this day. Thanks for another great video, and long live physical media!
@michaelsyoutubechannel5857
Жыл бұрын
Great discussion. My fam stayed in a historic refurbished lodge this summer. They had an old turntable in the room with some vinyl albums lying around. That was the first time in over 25 years I have dropped a needle on a record and it was fun to introduce the medium to my 2 teenage daughters. Upon returning home, I immediately bought a turntable, had my sister and brother in-law send me my old albums I had left behind and hadn't listened to since leaving for college. The nostalgia of listening to those records for the first time since I was a teenager was pure magic. The artwork, the liners, the crackling and pops, the feeling of physically handling the album, the nostalgia, listening to the music the way the artists originally intended.. I'm hooked.
@alexfalcao
5 жыл бұрын
I’m buying vinyl again because I grew up listening to it. Back then it was like a ritual listening to an album and the warm sound the analog sound reproduced. Over the years listening to digital music I realized that something in the sound was not the same (That Warm sound I used to hear back in the 70’s/80’s with vinyl and cassette tape).
@bugsla
5 жыл бұрын
You said it : It's a beautiful object, and a full listening experience in itself that involves picking the record, cleaning it up, looking at the insert, dropping the needle and waiting for the first sound to come out after the "craack" and "pop".
@offthebeatentracks4515
5 жыл бұрын
I was lucky and decided to keep my records, from back in the day. I have about 25,000 of the little dears. I also had about 25,000 CD's. A couple of years ago, I was moving and it was time to downsize. So far, I've sold about 14,000 CD's and didn't really blink. I just didn't have an emotional attachment to them. I couldn't sell a single record. In fact, since the move, I've probably purchased and been given about 3,000 albums. I believe that there's a confluence of reasons. The inherent awkwardness of vinyl and playing it makes us pay attention. CD's just slide into a little box and you don't see them again for 60-70 minutes. Your concentration just isn't there. Your mind wanders and you stop absorbing and enjoying the music. Even worse with streaming. It never stops and you never see it. With a record, you have to change it every 25 minutes. You watch it spin around. You hold that big cover. It makes you pay attention. Whether vinyl sounds better or not - the way you listen to it is better. That to me, is the main difference.
@9iwthyh6
5 жыл бұрын
So true. I have said that listening to vinyl is more of a commitment (of time and attention, equipment). It is indeed different from digital.
@markmarkofkane8167
5 жыл бұрын
Wow. I cannot even imagine that many. Most we ever accumulated is around 300-400.
@offthebeatentracks4515
5 жыл бұрын
@@markmarkofkane8167 Collecting all those records has not been the most sensible thing I've ever done, but it has certainly been one of the most enjoyable.
@tjs2014
4 жыл бұрын
I totally agree. It really gives you a true experience. That's why I love vinyl. And cassettes too for that matter. People have the audacity to call records "hipster bullshit," I absolutely hate it when people say stuff like that. It enrages me. People who say that obviously don't get it. People have the right to listen to music on whatever format they like. Music is about the experience and having fun. No one has any right to talk bad about someone's hobby if they enjoy it. Just because it's not as convenient as streaming doesn't mean it's bad.
@realjaxon
4 жыл бұрын
Excellent observation. 😀👍
@absinth9288
5 жыл бұрын
Great seeing you again. To me it's the ritual, the sleeves the hunt for old but clean records, a way to enjoy my amp+speakers, watching youtube vinyl tv etc. etc. ;-)
@steveokon5431
5 жыл бұрын
Definately !! Hunting down clean vinyl, covers etc !
@rlwings
5 жыл бұрын
I think the current 'Hipster movement' re-popularized vinyl as a cool and unique thing to do. Pretty soon it was all over social media... Then us old-timers took notice of the increased talk and availability of vinyl and vinyl related products and were consequently drawn into our own nostalgia. Vinyl provides us an emotional connection to who we once were... I can remember my first girlfriend in technicolor when I listen to Genesis. I can once again feel the butterflies in my stomach when I was around her. I can smell her perfume and feel the warm summer breeze all around me. Yes, vinyl brings back a profound sense of 'being there' simply by dropping the needle... Now that's power. Good video as usual Craig, thank you.
@allenschmitz9644
5 жыл бұрын
OOOOhh..Randy..so close to the mark I'll call it a Bullseye..and just as it came back I see it gone allready..and once again the old farts are stuck with there vinyl..yes Im older than you two guys and saw the trend and dumped in 2014 and made a killing and now am free of the dead weight of it all and just because I saved about 100 78's for myself, value wise worthless just like your tons of vinyl is and will be going into the future...tech fads are what they are, a "BLIPVERT" in time..whats Hot now, Cassette Players for about a new york minute..I have mine and you can blue tooth them..am I gonna collect more? hell no look at the price there bringing on e-bay! that fad hasnt peeked yet...but will , so rush off and buy high for that Holy Grail Sony TC-D5M..AND NOTE! how all them silly players are marked VINTAGE-RARE..and dust off your RUN D.M.C. TAPE "RAISING HELL" and start makeing money on the new fad before it's too late.
@a.i.dimmer4616
5 жыл бұрын
Same as film,analog music provides different expirience.
@arnoldlee2063
4 жыл бұрын
@@allenschmitz9644As far as know the hipster movement only exists in the U.S. but the vinyl movement is worldwide. I think rebirth It started in japan. Hipsters are apart of it but I don't think they started it.
@daniellogansa8101
2 жыл бұрын
@@arnoldlee2063 “hipsters” (essentially young people who liked underground music) “started” it in the late 90’s/early 2000s. As vinyl became unpopular underground bands began releasing stuff on vinyl (usually 7”) because it was incredibly cheap. Also a lot of older obscure stuff wasn’t available on CD either. As “hipster” essentially became how young people all over the world started to dress/act and turned into the mainstream (like every youth subculture ultimately does), vinyl became mainstream too, just how tapered jeans were lame in the 90s but are very very basic now. Japan has always been into vintage stuff and Americana though so I doubt they ever stopped listening to records and wearing cool clothes 🤣, that’s where all the old blue note pressings and quality Levi’s are now.
@Jules-lw5tl
5 жыл бұрын
For the first time in three decades, I have the space and the freedom to enjoy LP's again...... And I'm loving it...!!!
@Jules-lw5tl
5 жыл бұрын
Hope you're having as much fun as I am..!!
@TailsSpain
5 жыл бұрын
I am 34 and I bought my first record when I was 18 , when it wasn t trending. My dad said it was a waste of time as vinyl never would come back. I love Cds but there is something funny about playing a record. It is a way of saying to this digital world hey I have something real here. Oh, and the sleeves, they are gorgeous
@bigdaddy7862
5 жыл бұрын
I'm also 53 and i never stopped listening to vinyl.I am glad that the younger generation is into it. Awesome!!
@LincolnRon
5 жыл бұрын
I'm a little older than you but ditto. I still have two record players I bought back in 1978. Technic SL-1200 MK2 although I got rid of my mixer from back then a long time ago. (A Radio Shack mixer.) I even still have some records I bought back in the 1960s.
@georgeanastasopoulos5865
5 жыл бұрын
Me too! I started listening to vinyl, 8 track, FM Radio, then cassette tapes. I returned listening to vinyl records, did not really stop, and I believe it my preferred playback of listening to music.
@Soldano999
5 жыл бұрын
I'm 37 i still have vinyls from the 80's. Then the 90's were all about CD's but i started collecting vynil again in 2003 and it was already getting popular enough to find new most releases including from indie labels. So all in all there's only been 15 years without it.
@thespeez
5 жыл бұрын
I'm about your age and NEVER gave up my turntable/s even though I did purchase and collect CDs since the mid-1980s. I STILL wanted that format around. I also use cassettes although I prefer to use blanks don't have many unused blanks left! With that said, If I ever was to get another tape deck, I'd probably get a high-end Sony or Harman-Kardan (sp?) or something similar.
@wolfyklip
4 жыл бұрын
Cool, I'm 63 and had my first Technic direct turntable in 1975-76 and got many vinyls from Tower Records! Hear them through my Klipsch Hersey then. Now, I just got a new Audio -Technica and playing them through my Klipschorn I got back in the early 90"s, Heavenly sound!! Keep up with the good work Vinyl TV!
@JoeLaFon3
3 жыл бұрын
For me, I've always been fascinated by music. When I turned 30 I realized I was very very bored with music for awhile. Then I decided to learn about the format and I got really interested. Now I'm back to enjoying music again and I get immense excitement putting on a new record I've never heard and enjoying it
@hammer3921
5 жыл бұрын
As I get older (62), I enjoy things that remind me of my youth and what a great time it was to grow up in the 70’s. That’s why I got back into vinyl.
@ralex3697
5 жыл бұрын
Hammer Me too, I’m 60
@somebuddyful
4 жыл бұрын
im jealous! i wanted t live earlyer so i couldve been to a concert from The Doors.
@daniellaubach7544
4 жыл бұрын
That i can agree with u on this subject. I've been collecting 45's & albums since my teenager years (12). Listening to the tunes of my youth perticuallary mid 60's up thru the early 90"s brings back memories to me.
@cassconner6023
4 жыл бұрын
Robin Alexander Same here! Class of “77”
@tbrown6559
Жыл бұрын
I find it akin to going out for a trail walk, versus watch a hi def video of a trail walk. One is a real active experience, the other is much more passive. Maybe this is a bad analogy, but it’s close.
@willyli969
5 жыл бұрын
My logo say it, I still got my first bought record, 56 years ago Hello from norway ! I like your way of thinking
@olebjrnlerum1834
5 жыл бұрын
Another great video! To me it’s the ritual, the cover arts, and not to forget, when you Play a record, you play it without skipping songs. When you stream music it is to easy to skip tracks, and I think Steaming do not give you the same calmness when you playing music. You’re already looking for the next track when you stream music. So for me it is a way to relax and better enjoy the listening.
@philip6502
2 жыл бұрын
Some tracks deserve being skipped. 😎
@palipixel
5 жыл бұрын
Great topic! Never left vinyl, and received countless cast-off albums from others abandoning their records over the years. Always interested in some of the more obscure artists that have not been released in digital formats, or they languished for years before they appeared on CD (or any other format). Then there's the sound quality. The techniques and gear used for mastering gramophone records represent a very refined and mature set of tools and methods, which must be employed by experienced engineers who are able to exercise an amount of good taste. Recordings on vinyl are hard to beat provided they are (were) well made and recorded properly, and played back with a reasonably set-up turntable, tone-arm, cart and phono preamp. We have modern high resolution digital files to thank in part for the reappearance of really good vinyl pressings, since the vinyl record industry has the competition in the form of the highest performance digital formats breathing down their necks at all times. The dirty little secret is that the golden age of vinyl is today, of all things, since nearly everyone involved in making vinyl records are taking great care at each step of the production process. Finally, there's the chance for a listener to make modest changes to his or her analog playback system that will produce pleasing improvements or alterations in the presentation of the sound's character and personality, thereby altering the listening experience. It does not have to be the same old flavor that overlays all the recordings in your collection. Plus, there's more room for (sometimes) iconic album cover artwork...
@Coasterdude02149
4 жыл бұрын
I never thought of the record companies bringing it back until you hit on that but it makes perfect sense. Aside from just having grown up with vinyl, one of the biggest reasons I got back into it was the cool factor that digital will and never can have. The gatefolds, the trifolds (Elton John's Yellow Brick Road), the picture discs, shaped picture discs, the coloured wax, the artwork & liner notes you don't need a magnifying glass to read- these 52 year old eyes don't work as well as they did 30, 40 years ago LOL! But when I got my new turntable a week or so ago and for the first time in about 30 years put that Zepplin record on and lowered the stylus...WOW!
@frankmarcella7572
5 жыл бұрын
When my dad passed away at 89yo back in '14, I was the only one who in my family who made the effort to make sure his LP collection stayed in the family. Classic music from the 40's 50's & 60's that I love even though I'm an unapologetic, GenX, Classic rocker/Metal head. I took home the cheap turntable that I got for him at a guitar center 20 years ago when his '82 Technics died. I wanted something newer. I grabbed a new AT LP120, (your turntable setup video was extremely helpful btw), and then set out to garage sales, thrift stores, and used record stores in an attempt to restock all the albums I had as a teen, (which I kept in pristine condition) but sold when I became a CD junkie.
@ozarkpipertony8396
4 жыл бұрын
53 is not over the hill Craig. Its great age and we grew up in the best times!! Vinyl is an experience that is therapeutic! Thanks for the great videos! Keep them coming!
@J0hnny8ravo
5 жыл бұрын
For me it’s simply the sound. It’s so much more lively and present, it’s the shortest path from the music vibration back in the studio to your ears. And besides, if you take good care, records last forever.
@TheOzthewiz
Жыл бұрын
To put it simply...............CD is listening to a DESCRIPTION of the music, while Vinyl is a PHOTOGRAPH of the music. Which would you prefer?
@sidesup8286
Жыл бұрын
You'd need way more than a thousand dollar phono cartridge to even come near the best cd players under $2,000 for sound quality. You wouldn't judge the quality of lps using a $35 cartridge. Why would you judge the quality of cds using $300 players? Some of them are real good at around $1,700. You'd be hard pressed to match it's sound quality with analog. I am an analog buff too; and I do know what I'm saying. The sound of cds can be as analog sounding as analog. Believe it or not. I believe it now. I now know. It lacks nothing at all in any way. Except the aggravation of finding just the right pressing and condition. Cds are usually real good pressings. Lps are usually NOT that good a pressing.
@RUfromthe40s
9 ай бұрын
@@TheOzthewiz i prefer music as it was recorded not a bad sample like 30% of the music as in cd´s . Digital, which is a form of recording music by using not analog support as i prefer because even when listening to a cd ,the sound is analogue or you would only listen to noise ,like a game charging on a 48k spectrum from sinclair, so if music all is analogue why use a convertion to a convertion than to recording a convertion to other conversion, but not all want or need to hear all the music but a part of it is enough kind of a bad sample and they used to say there were bad cassette decks when all the world hears music worst than a recording made in the worst recording cassette deck , i used to record electronic music and all the system was electronic only when recording it in my home studio i converted the signal to analogue and then cassette or cd ,i did this for 35 years only in the 90´s i bought a roland groove box with a sampler and a midi keyboard and stoped in 2005, i started with a church organ that had rythm keyboard and playable sounds that resemble real instruments in a electronic way ,then a Moog and a melotron and a yamaha electronic piano and all analogue instruments you can imagine, also a collection of microphones and amplifiers with(or , and) speakers
@RUfromthe40s
9 ай бұрын
@@sidesup8286 it´s true allthough i didn´t pay but in mid 90´s i bought a belt driven cd player from CEC ,i searched recentelly for it and it´s still being sold by 36.000€ and that doesn´t improve the bad quality of the cd an absolete format from the 70´s , the record if you have a turntable made before 79 when they were all good even the cheapest. Today your numbers are right , but if one doesn´t like guitars or voice or drums which are impossible to put into cd with a faithfull sound, while regular vinil or records are faithfull to the sound recorded in studios because not a wall covered with digital to analog converters can translate what is heard in analogue and cds since early 90´s are badly built the pressing is named burning ,the main problem is the bad quality of then new material (1990)at the time to be burned
@give_peas_a_chance
Жыл бұрын
I am 60, and been thinking for a few years now that I'd like to re-collect my old LP collection, but then dismissed the idea as ridiculous. My kids encouraged me , so in the end I bought and old 1980s Garrard deck and some Wharfdale speakers. I have about 50 records so far, and my brother thinks he might have some of my originals from the 70s as well. It's so much fun, and brings back so many memories. Like you, I wasn't listening to music much, and I missed that. All the music at my fingertips online and yet it was so unfulfilling. Now I can once again have the experience of not only playing recrods but also having the joy of hunting for them in charity shops and record dealers. I'll have to learn how to maintain my records this time around though - I never cleaned a record in the 70s- just blew the dust off the needle !
@Richardm1981
5 жыл бұрын
The inconvenience of what you go through to play a record is exactly why I think it came back. It forces you to be part of the experience. And just like you, I think cds sound amazing too and I won’t be getting rid of them anytime soon but vinyl records, it’s nostalgic for some, you won’t get bored (like clicking a button to download music), and it’s just good fun!
@Coasterdude02149
4 жыл бұрын
The one thing I will say about CDs and why I could care less about them is my house was burgled back in '91. When I got the call from the cops at work and arrived home, EVERYTING I owned was gone...all my CD's...many of which were personaly autographed as I worked in a record store at the time. In those CD jewel cases I would keep the concert ticket stubs- GONE...irreplaceable items, just wiped out. ALL the vinyl I've had and kept since I was a pre-teen- every single album was still there...because it's a lot easier to throw a bunch of CD's in a pillow case and haul 'em off than it is 12 inch LP's. 🤘🏻
@dennisvanmierlo
Жыл бұрын
Your first answer is also the reason for me to start playing records again: getting bored of digital music. Having a physical record in my hand, enjoying the artwork, getting emotionally triggered when looking at a cover, going to a record store and digging with my hands through all the records. And the best part, putting on a record and actually listen without a “Next” button at fingertip. I’m at the beginning of rebuilding my record collection again and I so excited about this. Thanks for sharing your thoughts in your video. Lot’s of greetings, Dennis 🇳🇱
@allofuspilgrims
5 жыл бұрын
I have been surrounded with vinyl records from my birthday. I remember how we regularly went to the record store to buy something for me and something for the elders. I still have some of those old records with songs for kids and audio plays. My uncle brought records from his friends and also had many of the rock vinyls, some of them being swapped for jeans or bottles of whiskey. When the age of CD arrived I quickly adopted that format and started collecting CDs (as much as my pocket allowed). But something was missing from that format: the aesthetics! The CDs (especially from the first wave) lacked that special feeling when you hold the record in your hands, feel its smell, weight, texture of the cover. If it is gatefold or has inner covers, inserts, posters, stickers or some other extras, or has special design we could spend days by exploring them. Listening to the music with or without following the lyrics is a unique experience, especially because I still can't conceive how practically the grooves store the music (although I understand the physics). So, in my case the factors are good memory, aesthetics and magic of the format. Thank you!
@jerryking7502
3 жыл бұрын
Craig, I got back into vinyl because of my step daughter. When she came to live with us, we started going shopping together at the antique stores. She would always pick up one or 2 albums, and of the 70s, and 80s genre. This really peeked my interest, and within a few years, I started going back down that track! At this point of time, I have been following the vinyl movement, and one thing is coming into focus. The vinyl resurgance is being driven by those that grew up with mp3s and streaming. They have been discovering the EXPERIENCE of vinyl and moving towards it. To a lesser extent, those who grew up with only CDs. As to us boomers, we went through the vinyl experience, went to the conveniance of CDs and now many of us are coming back to vinyl. BUT the difference with us boomers, is we are, for the most part, buying used vinyl and re issues of our favorite 60s, 70s, and 80s music. This is logical(well from an emotional standpoint) and, when you think about it , understandable. I have purchased, over the last, say 3 years, about 20 new records, and mostly re issues. I have also accumulated about 1000 used LPs over the last 3 years as well. So thank you, Milinials, Gen Zs and Gen Alphas(or what every you want to call them) for bringing back vinyl for us boomers!!! If anyone was going to be honest and open minded, the best sounding CD ALWAYS sounds better than the best sounding vinyl record. When I first bought Pink Floyds DSOTM on CD when it first came out, I was blown away! I had to totally rebuild my collection because of life. What I mean by that, is when my ex and I split up, when I was out of the home, and unable to get everything right away, she sold EVERYTHING out from under me for, get this...$500!!!! That includes about 700 records, over 200 CDs, numerous VHS movies, thousands of hockey and baseball cards, and almost 3000 comic books. Now I was anal when it came to looking after my stuff, so everything was pretty much mint!!! That's all in the past(suffice to say, we have nothing to do with each other), and I have moved on. Just don't want to think about it. I haven't been able to get all the vinyl I had, and probably never will, ie, certain picture discs and Hi-Fi records, like half speed mastered, virgin etc. But that's ok. One of the plusses getting my "new" vinyl is I have picked up many records I would never have considered back in the day. Then, I was main stream listening and my record buying reflected that. So onwards and upwards as they say.... Yeah, a "Dagwood" sandwich! That's it! Craig, can you do an update on this video?
@davidgill2520
3 жыл бұрын
Hello and thanks for your great channel. I think we are fortunate that the media itself has a shelf life or we wouldn’t be having this conversation. That we are able to still play our records that are 50 to 60 years old, probably out live us. I grew up with both sources and appreciate there strengths but there is nothing better than putting on a record of your favourite band ignoring the odd pop or crack holding that album and singing to the lyrics. I think also by all this extra set up, it made us better listeners. Take care from Montreal
@ubergeeknz
5 жыл бұрын
For me I've used nothing but streaming services for a few years now and before that digital tracks, but I still had all my old CDs and I wanted a proper stereo, a component Hi-Fi. I went down the 70s-80s track with it and so of course a record player needs to be part of that. So here we are. I have a very modest collection of Vinyl, but it's slowly growing. What you say about physically engaging with the music is a big factor, also the concept of listening to an album without an option to skip tracks or change stations is oddly satisfying - you're hearing it how the artist intended - and when you consider Vinyl mastering (which is often quite different from the mastering/mixing for CD) that's particularly true for most 60s, 70s and 80s music. Of course I have a cassette deck too and I dare say the humble cassette is set to come back in a very big way. The SQ is actually very good and it's a reasonably convenient format and most of all - it's analog, which having grown up in a very digital era, really appeals to me
@DorianPaige00
5 жыл бұрын
Reason for vinyl resurgence: KZitemrs and Facebook users showing off their collections and latest finds helped out enormously. 2007 was the year of uptick which corresponded with the dates of those two sites really taking off.
@chetthebee1322
5 жыл бұрын
Nostalgia, good memories, tangibleness of the albums and their covers of beautiful artwork, challenge of building a nice sound system and finding a nice copy of a favorite vinyl, the smell of a new LP, the warmth of mid-range and the comradery with others in the same hobby.
@Zockopa
5 жыл бұрын
My first experience with a record was when i bought my first setup and listened over it via headphone - a heavy Pionier Monitor 10 I lay down on the sofa and listened to Dark Side of the Moon from Pink Floyd. It just blew me away. Not only the music but also the sound quality just wowed me completly. Ive heard excerpt of it via a old radio before,but hey, i never expected THIS. Needless to say over the years i became a "vinyljunkie" and in a opportune time,around the mid eighties,when the CD really became mass compatible thanks to lower prices for players. At that time,at least in my neck of the woods,many early adopters just binned their whole records collections for minimal prices to the next 2nd hand shop. It was a true bonanza for a short period but of course buisness quickly discovered a possible profit stream prices began to rise sharply. However,also the big supermarket chains and even the bigger record stores emptied their storehouses of "the old stuff" on bargain bins.. It kept me busy for a couple years........ Anyway,although this period of my life - music and lots of mary jane with friends- is long over,i never abandoned my records. Admittedly i sold parts of it off - if i was broke. So over time my pile shrunk from a couple thousand to around one thousand. And CD`s,well i also never had any problems with them. Like records they can sound very good and absolutly satisfying. So today i probably have more CDs than records,but for me it was always the music,not the media format anyway,despite always had and always will have a good record player - at least one - at my disposal.
@michaelpotter9345
5 жыл бұрын
For me, I love the ritual, placing vinyl on the mat and the needle drop, then watching it play the music, had a turntable now for a couple of years, was thinking about it, then I watched your detailed setup of the lp120, and that did it for me, love my lp120 and play much more music than I did 2 years ago
@ethanjen1
4 жыл бұрын
For me I brought vinyl back into my life because it brought back memories of my father having music on in the house all the time. It's nostalgic. Music has been so important to me. Exactly what you said about bringing back childhood memories.
@DirectorNabeshin
5 жыл бұрын
I decided to get into vinyl records because I wanted a way to support artists I enjoy without having to buy clothes (I have enough in my closet over the years). Not only that, but music is one of the most important things in my life, so why not take the time to really appreciate what the artist creates? The music itself, the artwork, the lyrics, and even the notes. Music becomes more personal when you remove it from it's sleeve, put it on the turntable, grab a seat and enjoy from start to finish. I've become jaded with the introduction of Napster in the 90s, paving the way for bite-sized consumption of music. It was nice for a while but I feel like we lost connection with what the artists were trying to present.
@max79444
5 жыл бұрын
I ditched all my Vinyl and Deck in 2008. In 2018 I was in a charity shop and saw some virtually brand new classical music albums at £1 each. I bought 10. I have just bought a Thoren TD160 and SME series 3 arm. Absolutely tremendous! What a awesome sound!
@tcbmike4926
5 жыл бұрын
Love your videos man . Hope you keep making them.
@jasoncurtis716
Жыл бұрын
I’m 51 and as kid I had a record player and bought records and still have the same records and still collecting,for me like yourself it’s the experience every time you put one on ,I have 2 old pioneer players a pl115D and a pl112d there 40 years old and they sound great to me ,the art work I display .love this channel by the way I have learnt so much from watching your videos .
@alanprice7584
5 жыл бұрын
For me vinyl never went away, I have literally a handful of CDs but about 300 albums. As you say listening to vinyl has to be a hands on experience but having to get off your backside and turn the disc over etc breaks up the listening moment and provides added interest.
@kevinsmith5318
5 жыл бұрын
Two years ago I made the momentous decision to sell my 50 years, 3,000 LP collection thinking (rather, NOT thinking) that i didn’t want to have inconvenience of hauling them when I moved and, besides, I have 33 days of music on my iPod! I kept back only a hundred or so cherry picked albums. Not a day goes by that I don’t regret it! If i had known how much I would miss simply having them I would never have sold them. Never! It’s hard these days going into a record shop these days and seeing the albums i purchased when they first came out selling for $30-$100! It really hurts. Your video gives me some hope. I will endeavour henceforth to rebuild my collection one by one (used only though...). Thanks for the vid!
@elvisfan6475
4 жыл бұрын
I'm 55 and kept my LPs and 45s. Still got my cassettes and a few 8 tracks lol. The music takes you back when you was,growing up.
@dm95422
5 жыл бұрын
I hope music collectors would have the same appreciation for CD's as they do for LP's someday.
@dm95422
5 жыл бұрын
The engineers of 1950-1980's compared to the ones that are clueless today......there's really no comparison. Perhaps the loudness monster they've created have altered their brains into thinking loudness & compression is good & normal.
@Kit_Bear
2 жыл бұрын
CD's won't last nearly as long as Vinyl because of disc rot/deterioration.
@philip6502
2 жыл бұрын
@@Kit_Bear My first CD from 1984 hasn't rotted yet. LOL. What's going to rot?
@Kit_Bear
2 жыл бұрын
@@philip6502 The reflective surface layer isn't going to last forever, Or at least last longer than a record.
@lairofdionysus1943
2 жыл бұрын
@@philip6502 CD Rot is a "real thing", believe it or not... There is CD Rot and also the issues of layer separation if there was any inconsistency in the manufacturing process, and the layers begin separating. After reading about this phenomenon, I went through my entire CD Collection, which is probably around 300 CD's and most of them over 25 years old, stored in meticulously good conditions, and I have took notice to about 4 of them which have begun "layer separation". Having tested them, one of them begins skipping in one of my CD players at points where it has difficulty reading the material.
@samjamesdutton6064
5 жыл бұрын
Love your channel. I'm 20 from England and I started collecting vinyl a few months ago, got myself an lp120 turntable. Yeah I agree with what you say, digital sounds excellent but you lose that charm and the enjoyment that comes with listening to a record. Keep up the videos, you seem like a cool guy, and I love Rush too!
@coldginuk1
5 жыл бұрын
With records it's very much a ritual. You have to be careful every step of the way. I enjoy both records and CDs but hate streaming. I've been informed that the bit rates are getting better for streaming but give me a lump of black vinyl any day.
@coldginuk1
5 жыл бұрын
@Virality TV Record collection literally grows on a daily basis. But at the moment the CD collection is expanding rapidly too. CDs are so cheap at the moment. Recently picked up 10 mint Peter gabriel CDs for £10. A pound a pop well it would be rude not to.
@coldginuk1
5 жыл бұрын
@Virality TV Ebay that included p&p too. Pick up a similar amount of Genesis CDs up from Shpock for £20. Like I said with a bit of patience there are some excellent deals out there. God bless Spotify.
@ralex3697
5 жыл бұрын
Virality TV So much fun collecting vinyl What we took for granted in the 60s and 70s we now respect and cherish How lucky to have grown up in those times
@axelfoly9260
4 жыл бұрын
Hey! I'm 46 and I never stopped listening vinyl! My 21 years old daughter enjoys vinyl too and when she visits me and my wife, we drink beer and listen to vinyl records with a great pleasure. In my country it is very difficult to collect vinyl records but in my city there are 6 vinyl records stores. I met a french guy a year ago who told me that vinyl records sounds much better then other formats. He was 23 years old. It's not an issue of the age or habbits.
@personalcheeses8073
3 жыл бұрын
Where is your country? I’m in the UK and I sell lots of records in this country. But the other countries I sell a lot to are the USA, Italy, Spain, Germany, Ireland (Eire) and occasionally France and Scandinavian countries. I’m just interested if you are in one of these vinyl loving countries.
@OceanSoul1969
5 жыл бұрын
I went back to vinyl because of nostalgia, and for some warmth in this cold digital age. And thanks for mentioning LOST :)
@mausermann7918
5 жыл бұрын
I still have all my records from the seventees on and i play vinyl brcause.... 1. Some records sound better then their cd equivalent 2. I like collecting music on vinyl 3. Nostalgia for sure 4. Much more intense listening experience 5. I can now afford hifi equipment I couldn't when I was young 6. I also bought a high end cassettedeck and am copying vinyl onto tape - again. Lo ve it!
@petervanvalderen9136
5 жыл бұрын
Got back in cassette again too. Amazing results with good tape and a good deck. I'm enjoying cassettes now again just as vinyl. The turntable has the magic spinning and the cassette the amazing spinning of the hubs to watch. A vinyl recording on a good tape, which sounds as good as the vinyl. How more more analogue do you want it :)
@Coasterdude02149
4 жыл бұрын
@@petervanvalderen9136 Just keep a pencil by the cassete deck....you never know when you'll need it 😁
@TheOzthewiz
Жыл бұрын
I agree TOTALLY! I have 'vinyl' dating back to 1959, including several MONO records. I love vinyl so much MORE having played around with "under sampled- over corrected" CDs for the past 30yrs. I haven't purchased a CD in about 20 yrs and don't plan to in the next 20.
@stratrovarius
3 жыл бұрын
As a musician, vinyl was always cool to me. After piling over 5 TB of mp3 music i finally i bought a turntable and started buying and collecting vinyl records ( and original CDs as well ) just because i can finally afford them. I have at least 500 album titles on my "to buy" list now...let alone the unexpected pleasant surprises that music always has to offer.
@SDsailor7
5 жыл бұрын
I used to hang out at Tower records back in the day and peruse the bins for hours.
@EA-58
5 жыл бұрын
Thats the SAME reasons i bought myself again a turntable, and enjoy the rituals and the music again. Am i getting old??
@joemcdonald7798
Жыл бұрын
Definitely a nostalgic , emotional thing. Closest thing to a time machine
@billieshoemate4392
Жыл бұрын
I actually cried when I bought Master of Puppets on vinyl recently and heard Cliff Burton playing by himself on Orion. that never happened to me the billion times I listened to it on cd or streaming. when I heard Cliff on that record, I have a zillion times, but just the fact that the physical vibrations that were pressed into that album....made me feel closer to that recording. it's hard to explain, it was a deeply moving thing. I felt closer to it. it wasn't just me listening to music. it was an event.
@alvarosundfeld
3 жыл бұрын
I am a 15 year old teenager, and my story is just like yours. I love vinyl records since my childhood, when i saw that aiwa turntable at my grandma's house. So i bought my own 1970's phillips turntable and got some old records, and they sounded like crap, but it was much more intresting than CD's or MP3's. And, like you, i didn't know that vinyl was coming back. So i started looking for that subject in internet, and i learned that vinyl could sound much better. So i kept upgrading, and i got where i am now. Love your channel, Craig!
@twofiress
5 жыл бұрын
digital music killed it for me. Miss the times when i went to a record store and listening through headphones for a few songs before buing an album.
@ubergeeknz
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, me too! Or buying an album by a band you liked and being really disappointed but you put up anyway because dammit you paid good money 😂
@tjs2014
4 жыл бұрын
I agree. I enjoy listening to music at music stores before purchasing. It's fun.
@johnlee7479
3 жыл бұрын
Buying (spelt ) 🤣
@PirateNovelist
5 жыл бұрын
I got into it via a tweet via my favorite singer from my favorite band. This was about 6 years ago. I’ve been the catalyst for many of my friends starting to collect. The records I had up to the point I started buying were my parents. I kept them up during multiple moves making sure they went wherever we went. So it’s like they were always with me all my life and only recently I got heavily into collecting and fully listening.
@charterloungeparty
5 жыл бұрын
I like CDs and I collect them when there's no vinyl release of a title. But over the years, I have been upgrading my playback equipment- so now I have a kick-ass player and great speakers and there's no comparison to hearing a great LP on my system. I also have a separate turntable for 78 rpms. I LOVE IT!
@ericarmstrong6540
5 жыл бұрын
Vinyl never went away for me. I have always collected since the 1970's. Now today I have hundreds of albums.
@dana.9377
3 жыл бұрын
I've been really getting into early 40's 50's music and just hearing music that wasn't designed to sell millions in the first week or meet whatever metric. Yoi can hear how genuine the music was when it used to be about entertaining you and not selling ads or ad space.
@heppy881
5 жыл бұрын
It's great to see you back Craig. Your videos make me smile, so thanks for that. I've listened to vinyl for 6 years. For two years prior I tried to convince my better half of the merits of buying a turntable. The sound coming from my vintage Lenco is sublime. I'm well and truly hooked!!
@benjaminreed9585
5 жыл бұрын
As an 18 year old that collects records, for me I got into it because it was a completely new experience, and I’m confident many other young people getting into records think the same way, especially because of how cool vinyl is and the ritualistic aspect of records themselves.
@johnlloydgratton8397
5 жыл бұрын
Love your passion for vinyl. Looking forward to getting my first turntable for a long time! Really enjoy your vlogs!
@awall7501
2 жыл бұрын
I got back into vinyl purely by chance. Went to visit a good friend of mine "who's a guitarist" and he had bought an old 1970's radio/gram. He bought it from a charity shop in town to support a wide screen TV he had bought. He asked me listen to a album he had placed on it. The sound was fantastic and i had forgotten what vinyl sounded like. He explained why he bought it and was as surprised as i was of the quality. He also explained that the old transistors/components are much better than the Chinese ones used nowadays. I'm 62 now and have a pretty decent vinyl collection that i was going to digitise but since buying a Audio-Technica AT-LP120 running through an old Micro Sony CD/Radio/Cassette player i haven't bothered. The turntable isn't fully automatic which may put some people off but that is also appealing to me as i like the whole process of putting the LP's on and off and the sound is amazing even through this old micro system
@leopie_777
5 жыл бұрын
It’s ritualistic, from the searching , to the maintenance, to the physical action of putting the record on. Also the appreciation of the artwork. It’s fun! If it wasn’t fun we wouldn’t spend so much money lol
@bongofury3176
5 жыл бұрын
Hi Craig, good to see you back. I went back to vinyl after 29 years just for all the faffing around and gadgets. So many brushes, cleaning solutions, dust removers, static guns, record weights, platter mats, isolation platforms - you can't fiddle with any of that on Tidal ! Get groovy folks
@luispaxtor2680
Жыл бұрын
I am new to vinyl and it definitely is an experience, more work but definitely more engaging and fun, plus the sound of vinyl, was not a believer until I actually went through the experience.
@cmkilcullen8176
Жыл бұрын
I give the younger generation some credit for vinyl back. Kids started buying Croslelys and used lps to listen to and bring to parties. I was amazed when my daughter (who is now 30) asked me if she can have a few of my dust gathering lps. She purchased a portable record player which I advised against. She then found out the hard way why I advised against that and we took care of that with an inexpensive audio technica and a budget preamp (she found on her own) and from there it was history. Then I took out my old Techics turntable and then the rest is history for me too. I got a AT lp3, then I got her one too and handed off my Techics to a friend (I wanted something other than a p mount cartridge) and so on... My daughter was finishing middle school at the time and then entered high school. And here I am today buying my daughter some of the classics. She does have memories of my playing my technics hooked up to a Kenwood system for a time and she loved watching the lp go round and round . Her friends and she all loved records! And so it goes... Its good to be back.
@markmijnders1517
5 жыл бұрын
THANKS mate. I stopt asking myself why I collect Vinyl a long (and €€€€,$$$$) time ago. Just Enjoy them. Vinyl for Life.
@bensharp4164
5 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed the video man :) I got into vinyl when it was very very dead, about age 11 (2000ish) I was helping my dad clear out our loft, his old hifi was up there and a stack of records, I was fascinated by them and my dad set it up in my bedroom, down the rabbit hole I went... Around that time music stores were closing left right and center, the only one left in my town (HMV) had a tiny vinyl section, mostly hip hop and garage singles, they soon disappeared. You would walk the streets and see hifi's dumped at the side of the road or in skips, I started collecting and tinkering... I would beg my parents to take me to boot sales and would dart off everytime we went to town to raid the charity shops for vinyl. There were a few places in London that stocked new and used vinyl, I would save my pocket money for trip up town and proudly carry them home on the tube. By 17 I had a Technics direct drive TT (£20 in a local paper) and 70's Harmon Kardon reciever (Out a skip) set up in quad stereo (Zep 2 never sounded so good) I felt like it was my secret world, I could find this stuff for nothing and be lost in sound. Over the last 5 years the resurgence has been incredible, you couldnt get vinyl on the high street anywhere...you can buy it in supermarkets now... I would never have believed it... (Ok so its mostly generic pap but still) I ocassionally buy online but vinyl is all about ritual, investing time in something truly special, ok so it has surface noise, warps, etc... but who cares, that visceral relationship can't be replaced. Although the hipsters get up my craw, I'm so glad more people can enjoy it now.
@turnersparadise8368
5 жыл бұрын
22 seconds in. Speaking for myself? Nostalgia. Pure and simple. The tactile feel of the whole ritual: The album art and inner liners, the putting an actual record on a turntable and lowering the stylus. The flipping the album. The careful handling. And most of all, the sound. All the stupid chucklehead arguments that "analog" vinyl is cleaner than digital...pfft, stupid...But I like the sound of vinyl. I like the coloration the analog medium makes. I also like cassette, reel and even 8 track for the same reasons. Just the nostalgia and the enjoyment. Bringing music back to what it once was.
@repairfreak
2 жыл бұрын
I think transferring some of my clean vinyl to my analog Reel to Real stereo deck would be a fun project. Its a very nice Akai vintage tape deck from Japan, I bet the recordings would probably sound awesome at fastest record speed. 😎👍
@TheSoundrookie
5 жыл бұрын
There's a lot of reasons that vinyl has come back for some, while for others (like me) it never went away. For some it's a fashion statement, and some even buy records without listening to them, or even having a turntable. For others it helps them focus on the music by putting on the record and dropping the needle. For some it's the chase for special or rare releases that gives them a kick. And for others again it's the sound. I never stopped listening to records, though I got into cd's as well as most other people. At first cd's was a fascinating format, and after a while it really wasn't possible to get new music on vinyl. Not here in Denmark anyway. But what I realised pretty fast was that I didn't get the kick or the goosebumps from listening to cd's that I got from playing vinyl, and I got tired of listening to the music rather quick. And what was the reason for that? The soundquality should be better, the dynamics on cd's are definitely better, there's no surface noise on cd's etc. Cd should be superior to vinyl in all ways, so how could it be? What I figured out after a while was that cd's aren't superior at all when it comes to the most important part; Sounding natural and alive. Though the engineers claim otherwise the cd format have two major problems. 1: The signal is being pulled to fit the bit ladder, which result in pre-echoes, and even to this day no one has figured out how to make a filter technique that takes care of that problem in a proper way. Notice that nothing sounds more fake than pre-echoes. 2: Another problem with the cd format is the removal of everything above 22 khz. I know this is a topic for much debate, but I believe the reason for that boils down to individual hearing. According to several sources a lot of people's hearing rolls off at about 14 khz, while others can hear frequencies as high as 28 khz. Personally I had my hearing checked recently, and I can hear up to 23 khz (and it's not bs). Vinyl reproduces frequencies way beyond 22 khz - Infact as high as 35 khz or higher. Some claim these frequencies comes from tape saturation, but the fact is that when you reduce the speed by half you will hear these frequencies as a natural extension of the sounds below 22 khz, and it's also worth noticing that several accustic instruments makes frequencies up to 45 khz. I believe the lack of these frequencies, and the intermodulation between frequencies beyond and below 22 khz is the reason cd's sound fake and dead, while vinyl sounds more natural, though vinyl isn't perfect by far. To back that up, I find it important to mention that digital recordings with higher bit rate and sample frequency, where frequencies above 22 khz hasn't been cut off, doesn't sound fake. I actually think it sounds great, but what's missing is a selection of music that matches what you can get on vinyl. To me the sound is the reason that I kept my records and turntables, and the come back of vinyl just means that it's possible to get new music on vinyl again, which is awesome, except a lot of crap is being put on the marked. As you mention there's not that many pressing plants left, and too many of them pump out really bad quality vinyl to keep up with demands. And the reason that they do that is because they only get 2% of the complaints they know that should be getting, because for some weird reason too many people don't complain when they get a crappy record. Perhaps there are more of those who buys records as a fashion statement, than we think. To record companies it's big business if they can get away with it. The only way to get them to deliver the quality we pay for is to complain. Actually it would be cool if you brought that up in your next video. Infact it would be awesome if you did some more record reviews like you did on the different Rush releases. It would be cool if it grew to a size where record companies thought twice before releasing crap to avoid ending up on "Craigs list". I don't know if the come back of vinyl is due to some conspiracy, or manipulation by the record companies. It doesn't seem very likely. But on the other hand the 180 gram scam could point in that direction. Just a shame that besides the consumers, the environment get's f..... over by the extra amount of plastic (which doesn't improve the sound, and often leads to more surface noise). You're right, and at the same time wrong about what you say about music being made today. You're right that most of it sucks, but quality music is still being made though it isn't given many chances by the record companies, or people in general. But you're wrong to say it like crappy music wasn't made in the past as well, because it sure was, and you can find all the crap at thrift stores by the ton. There you can see all the awful crap that never should have been released. You know that it will never be sold, and you know where it will end up. Therefore crappy music of today should only be allowed to be sold as download, because it's a fact that it will end up the same way. Justin Bieber, Rihannah, and loads of similar junk isn't just a crime against mankind - It's a crime against the environment when released on a physical format. Only allowing quality being released will also take some of the pressure of the pressing plants, so they get the time to make decent quality vinyl. Thanks for making yet another great video. Stay awesome mate.
@vanceknight
4 жыл бұрын
I'm 25 and my grandmother had one of the big wind up cabinet style record players and it was my job as a little kid to go swap sides and wind it while we were putting together jigsaw puzzles. Funny you should say that you randomly got back into it without knowing of the resurgence because so did I. I wanted a new physical copy of my favorite band Boston with the most amazing album cover of all time (In my opinion) but wasn't feeling like getting another CD, for it to eventually scratch and skip or my truck CD player to eat it like the last one did. So I went and got a Fluance RT85, a tube preamp and have it plugged into my PA system that I use for my band equipment and I couldn't be happier. Thank you for your videos its people like you with common sense to hopefully bring back more people to this way of music without breaking the bank or getting discouraged and saying to hell with it. I think your right with the music industry had something to do with it though.
@TheRollingStoness
5 жыл бұрын
I am with u. I love digital and vinyl , both has it's own great stuff.. sometimes I am not in the mood for the Vinyl hassle..thanks to the CDs and the hi res vinyl rips which sound as analog as the real vinyl when played through a stand alone DAC,. ..to my ears only...
@ArczAngel
4 жыл бұрын
Always having fun and I'm listening very attentive to you Sir. Your just like a my best teacher in grade school . You are a TED caliber speaker Sir.
@repairfreak
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for another cool video, I myself am 55 and really getting ready to enjoy vinyl again. Getting ready to put a new phono cord on my Technics SL1200MK2 and adjust and calibrate with the protractor tool thing I never knew about. Thank God I haven’t played much before because of my flaky original cables kicking in and out, and now just recently learned about the crucial cartridge alignment procedure. Thanks for all the helpful information my friend. ✌️😎👍
@itxofficial8281
4 жыл бұрын
I didn't really grow up with vinyl, but when I was a little child, my father still had his old hifi setup and occasionaly put on a record. His turntable was a very high quality piece of engineering, with wooden housing and a high torque platter. I can't remember the brand, but I think it was a Sony or Pioneer. Although he quickly replaced his entire vinyl collection with CDs and sold all of his old stuff, the fond memories of little-me watching the records spin on this beautiful turntable somehow stuck in my head. When I grew older and started becoming a DJ, I quickly realised that they still use and highly appreciate this almost extinct format. Then one day, I had the chance to play an 8 hour gig at a venue where they used turntables and vinyls. Even though I made a few mistakes and my transitions weren't perfect, I was having an absolute blast and decided to buy a turntable afterwards. This all happened back in 2007, when vinyl was just about to make a comeback in the consumer market. So coincidentally, I got into this awesome hobby at exactly the right time!!
@EldenRinging
3 жыл бұрын
"Look at that!" I do! I do like to stand in front of the turntable from time to time and just stare at the record spinning - it's hypnotic😍
@filmic1
Жыл бұрын
I'm 70 and kept all my albums after my Dual 1215 died. I had a Pioneer turntable I bought off a fellow, the motor died after a couple of years. So never got a turn table to replace it, till now and so glad I kept all that vinyl.. I'm surprised how tidy I've kept them. I have some gem classical on Deutsche Grammophon.. Too pleased. Vinyl experience is such a cool ritual.
@maartena
3 жыл бұрын
I recently got back into vinyl. I had not owned a record player for over 25 years, and when I moved from the Netherlands to the USA I sold all my records and most CD's because shipping everything was expensive. Recently we found the box of records my wife still kept from the past (she is American) and at the same time I was exploring FULL ALBUMS again on KZitem. I have all the streaming apps, Pandora, Spotify, iTunes..... so music was never far away. But I did miss something. I was a teen in the 1980s so my first music buys were LP's, it wasn't till the late 1980s that I made the CD my default medium.... so I had my START in vinyl records, but my vinyl collection was never big. Over the years my musical tastes matured, changed, and I really got into classic rock, pshychedlic rock, some punk, combined with some good old soul, motown, disco, and pop.... and I was missing something. Even with CD's, me and my friends would still buy full albums, go home, and then listen to it, examine the booklet that often had the lyrics, and listen to those songs over and over. Only one or two, maybe three songs on an album got any radio play, but it was the whole album that told something. It showed the time frame the artist was writing and producing it, where they were in their lives and what they were feeling. So, recently I decided to buy a Pioneer PLX-500-K, and hooked it up to my 21st century Bose Speaker system in the livingroom, which was basically my streaming setup.... but it has an aux port. And it sounds great. Obviously I could invest in an actual proper old style amplifier at some point, but for now..... this works great. So now, me and the wife are sitting in the livingroom actually listening to an album, not just streaming music. We listen to the story it tells. Yes, it is inconvenient, yes it has the cracks and ticks on old records.... but it just seems so much more satisfying to see that disc spin around and know that THAT is where the music is coming from. It's like the difference between a Steam Locomotive and a Diesel Locomotive. Sure, both gets you from A to B, but the Steam locomotive comes alive! It hisses, it puffs, it requires more work to make it go..... but once it does, the sight is intensely more beautiful than the Diesel locomotive. THAT to me is the difference between vinyl and digital. Now, I will never be a "snob". I have already seen videos of people that say you cannot call it vinyl, you MUST call it records or LP's, and that you can never call it the needle, you MUST call it a stylus. I do not think I will ever become that snobby about this..... I just want to listen to records with my wife and have a good time. I look forward to building up my collection over time.... and building it up with music I LOVE, not with records just to have them. They are meant to be played, and play them I will.
@trippmoore
5 жыл бұрын
My grandpa died in 2005. I went back to PA for the funeral and I found a bunch of LPs he bought for my uncle (long story short, my uncle got in an accident when he was 21 and was in need of constant care from that point on). They were all 70s rock... BTO, Zep, Stones, BOC, Tull, etc.. I ended up taking those since I was really into classic rock at the time. He had 8-tracks too but I didn't take those. So I bought my first record player at Radio Shack in LA in 18 years and that's where it started (again, since I got my first vinyl record when I was 8. The Rare Earth). We still had a few mom and pop record stores in the south bay where you could get cheap good used records. I got a copy of Goats Head Soup for $3.00 and it had the original bill of sale from Leo's Stereo back in the 70's! I still keep it in that sleeve. That's what's I love about vinyl.
@jloahunra76
2 жыл бұрын
Brings back childhood memories. Plus like you said its the physical aspect and sound that you just don’t get with digital music. Its a lost art form now resurrected. I’m on my second turntable. I have a lp120 and a rt83 both are great.
@gatheringmoments
3 жыл бұрын
I reckon you might be the best dude of KZitem ! Love your channel and its content. And love vinyl :)
@neilpye6089
5 жыл бұрын
Vinyl never went away for me as a man in my late. 40s everytime you put a lp on it is an experience that well worn lps have your previous experiences etched between the grooves
@deckofcards87
5 жыл бұрын
What you said about the nostalgia and having fun listening to your little 45s is what matters, man..That's what life should be about.
@KrzysztofMalina
Жыл бұрын
And its really nice to see An Enthusiast valued for what he loves. Thank you for Your videos!
@Trance88
5 жыл бұрын
I grew up with my mom's vinyl collection, then after my parents bought me a CD player for Xmas 1999, I stopped playing them and then bought my own music on CDs, then, back around 2003, I started seeing shelf systems with built in turntables in the JCPenny catalog, which made me want a turntable. I finally got one in the summer of 2004 to re-play my mom's collection, then in 2005, I started to buy my own records, which were all Electronic dance music, since that's what I was mainly listening to at the time. When I got into college in 2007 I discovered record stores in the area and started buying records there and the rest is history!
@kensweet7219
5 жыл бұрын
I'm at minute 1:41, I'm an audiophile first and long time radio engineer since before radio stations were playing CD, through the transition of only having a few and touted as such, through digital music only. At one point, on my way to the station to do some night work, at a time when the vast majority was coming from CD ... I was driving down the road and a jam came on that literally shocked me at how full and ballsy it sounded. It was jamming me to the bone. It like filled the inside of my ford cargo van from top to bottom, corner to corner, into every nook and cranny. Now .... my station was not the best sounding station, and there was a reason for that. There are rules that dictate what 100% modulation is and the FCC always changes a little at a time .... basically giving stations more room and better sound. BUT, each station has a modulation monitor which was made to fit the FCCs exact algorithm as of the time the modulation monitor was made. And regardless of rule change, you had to keep your modulation within the confines of the modulation monitor you had. Now those things are expensive .... $20K bucks in the 90s? And the FCC changed the rules almost every year. Naturally, you couldn't buy a new one very often, but whatever station did, they had the right to tailor there sound to the new rules .... which gave them an edge. Well, as the years rolled by, the management of my radio station wouldn't pop for one and eventually my radio station was at a severe deficit. At a time when every station is using every smidgen of their allowed modulation, my station was literally running 20% below the other stations around (voltage signal wize - that's like a 60W amplifier cranked up to produce the same loudness level as a 100W amplifier just peaking). And the only way we could keep our volume the same as the rest of the dial, was compression, compression and more compression. Squarewaves modulated at the audio rate. Secondly, we were broadcasting AOR rock n roll .... not the cleanest produced music to start with. So, me being an audiophile in my own right, I really didn't like the sound of my station though I did my absolute best to make it sound good. So I was on my way to the station and this music was just blowing me away with it's clarity, fullness and ballsyness. I looked down at the readout to see which station it was and was fully surprised to see that it was mine! I thought, the readout must be wrong, we were sounding like the station that had the newest modulation monitor! I literally punched around to the other stations to see if everybody's format was where it belonged and then back to my station. I even had to ask myself whether I just got stoned or something. But no. A few minutes later the song ended and I pulled in to the station and literally ran from my car all the way down to the FM studio and a bit crazily asked what he had just played, what did he do different, did he touch anything or adjust anything. Well he thought I was nuts, and told me what he had just played ..... knowing fully well that knew what it was. Then he reminded me .... it was an album I had loaned to him. Not only was it vinyl ..... it was MY vinyl. But the point here is .... it was VINYL .... that made the station sound awesome. Now there are technical reasons that our processing sounded better with an analog source, it too was old (though recently rebuilt and working as designed) and designed when everything was analog. Sooooo ..... why does it sound like shit with a CD as the source? Because it's various levels of compression circuits expecting sinusoidal based waves that follow some sort of natural progression. And that's not what comes out of a CD player. Not off of any CD, and not out of any CD player. Now our processing chain amplified that difference ..... but the the argument is over ... they ARE different. One contains only natural waves, the other contains many artifacts not found in nature. So getting to what you were saying .... you said "I was bored and wasn't listening to music." There is more psycho acoustics to that then you may know. In radio, there's a thing we call "listener fatigue". It happens from too much compression (which I had no choice about ... but that's not the point). CD resolution music sounds pretty good, but it produces another type of distortion which ..... can you guess? .... causes "listener fatigue". It's like you are listening to an over compressed radio station ..... but can never get away from it. But the problem is more subtle. Yet it burdens your brain even more than compression. Same thing happened to me ... and to others I know. Music just stopped being exciting. It stopped digging to my soul. It stopped being an attraction and fun and sought and looked forward to. It was just there. A surface thing, almost a nuisance, which I preferred to do without most of the time. Now one thing I want to mention ..... I was never tired of music because it was coming from cassette. And so I have another story of an unsuspecting discovery I made. On my trip from home to the radio station, there were about 3 minutes of easy driving where I generally popped the cassette in and listened to about half a song before I got to work every day. So the tape in my deck rarely got changed. It would take over a week to get through one side of one album ..... I might have had the same tape in there for a year or more .... and I slowly rotated between about three tapes over the years. One happened to be Steely Dan - Aja. It was on a normal bias tape and recorded on my GE boombox 11 years earlier. The source was an all plastic turntable with fake stroboscope dots, and through a Radio Shack $20 preamp. But at least the TT and the vinyl were brand new. So one day it hit me that we now had that album on CD in the FM studio ..... and I had my Nakamichi Dragon in my workshop, sitting right next to our freshly factory rebuilt on-air quality Tascam CD player and our spare on-air quality Technics CD player. So I grabbed my tape, grabbed the CD from the FM studio, tweeked up the Dragon and began re recording Aja. When it was time to go home, only one side of the tape had finished but I was eager to give it a test. So I popped it in my car deck and hit rewind. Well, I forgot about that, and the next day on the way to work I pushed the self ejected tape in and ...... there was something not quite right. Un impactful. Unsatisfying. Now I'm an audio professional and I know tape and tape machines and what every kind of distortion is telling me .... but this was something else. Like somebody fucked with the treble control or something. The highs were there but yet not there. I adjusted the treble anyway which did not fix what I was hearing as I knew it wouldn't. This very same tape was just not hitting me the way it always does, but there is no type of distortion telling me anything was wrong with either the recording or the playback in any way. Then it hit me .... I had forgotten that I had just re-recorded this album ..... but what was wrong? I went directly to the workshop to examine the situation and found nothing at all wrong. Infact, I found that the tape sounded exactly like the CD (which is what happens when you buy a Dragon). So, the station also still had the same album (played hundreds of times) on vinyl in the studio so I grabbed that. A technics TT, a new cartridge, and a $2000 preamp also accompanied the Dragon. Well, I hadn't re-recorded side 2 of the tape, that was still the 11 year recording made on the boombox. So I cued that old cassette recording up and spun up the TT in sync. And they sounded just alike except the cassette a slight rolloff in the highs. Hmmm. OK, this isn't making sense unless ........ So I synced up the vinyl and the CD and .......... I have literally never purchased another CD since. I suggest you try it. Oh and by the way, cassettes got vindicated in a big way at the same time .... and this explains why we didn't tire of music recorded from vinyl onto cassette even in cases where there was a quality detriment.
@olfart62
5 жыл бұрын
Craig here's the thing as so many of your listeners have said it never went away I'm 57 and I still buy records today and I will never stop until my last breath on this earth My first record was back in 1968 that my parents bought me a group you might have heard of called The Archie's Now I was 6 years old and loved music and since I had babysitters back then they brought over records and my house was full of music My Mom had a truck-ton of records I feel the people who loved this format brought them back and with a little push from Record Store Day now things are hopping right along the way they should be
@krishnaniyapillai476
5 жыл бұрын
Hello friend I'm so pleased & amuzed of listening to your channel on Vynil Records bringing back almost lost memory of Vynil, but you have brought back the greatness of listening pleasure to which we have stepped in now. I was wandering whether we'll be forgetting about it in just about time to come. Thnx to you of your personal view which awaken me that Vynil has come back to life again. I'm using a vintage Onkyo Y200D Record Player still going strong 💪
@chilly6470
6 ай бұрын
Records were always a thing in my family and I was lucky enough to have access to all my uncle's vinyl every weekend as a kid. I still kept buying cassettes until cd's became mainstream because, I had no turntable myself. I was totally hooked on Minidisc for many years and still have a lot of my music on MD. Now, everything I listen to, is on vinyl. It's just much more immersive and I never skip tracks. I bought a cheap amp, a Teac turntable with GoldRing E3 cartridge and a set of floor standing klipcsh speakers and a sub. It sounds great for a relatively cheap set up.
@Raketenclub
3 жыл бұрын
this is such a lovely channel. :) thank you for sharing all your experiences.
@Raketenclub
3 жыл бұрын
according to what is "better"... i make party with mp3, switching from one song to another searching for the best part and skip the rest, great fun... listen to vinyl means... spend time to listen to a record with my favorite songs i collected and honoring them- maybe in a whole.... sometimes mixing and switching fast, but...it's more a procedure and a happening than 'just' listen to mp3 .... oh my bad english. hard to explain, but i love mc's and vinyl. thats why i still own some very cool players. i got a b52 lp not played yet ... i play it 2023 or so when b52 gets 52years old. .... its more a celebration to what music you love and own on vinyl. for the rest... we got youtube and mp3 :))
@bernhardmichaelfux308
5 жыл бұрын
I got back to vinyl, because i wanted to be young again, and listening to my favorite albums from back then, such as The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon, Piano man... and so on, give me the illusion of a brought back youth lol... and, after all, and a hard life of working an suffering, and loss of many things in my life, i wanted to bring back something with Style into my life! And , not to forget, i want that the musicians ge money for their valuable work!. And, to buy a record means, to me, that i have a piece of music that i own! No one can take my records down from a streaming playlist! It`s mine, till i die! And, not to forget Michael Fremer: Vinyl sounds better than Streaming a mp3 !
@Bigheadedwon
3 жыл бұрын
I'm glad it's made somewhat of a come back, growing up I loved spending hours browsing at the record shops. Digital's instant, and easy. But I miss going all over searching for a record, tape or cd. There was no Internet so I didn't know what albums were coming out. So every trip was an adventure. I also miss opening a new record and reading the liner notes. I bought a new turntable last week. And last night I went to Target of all places and picked up Bob Marley Legend on vinyl. Due to problem after problem it took me the better part of 1 1/2 days to figure out why I was only getting sound thru 1 speaker and it just didn't sound good. I fixed everything and I feel like a kid again. All the struggling to get it working was absolutely worth it. I love music, CD's, MP3s, streaming it's all good to me. But vinyl's special because it's what I grew up with. And the fact I was able to go to Target in 2021 and buy one of my favorite albums of all time blows me away. They don't have a good selection, and it's super tiny, but I can leave my house and go buy a new record right now. I know on some level vinyl was always alive, but not where you could go to a Best Buy or Target and find vinyl. Growing up I spent a lot of my money on music, I suspect I'll be going everywhere local to look for it. I'll be broke in 2021 but I'll have a lot of vinyl to listen too lol. I dig your videos I'm going to go watch some more.
@9iwthyh6
5 жыл бұрын
My reason for going back to vinyl was the quality decline of new music, we became nostalgic for that great music from the vinyl era. I happened to still have my old Technics SL-D2 table and eventually bought my Yamaha CR-2020 (eBay). I still had most of my old LP’s so I had a good head start. New vinyl that I purchase is NOT new music. I do believe that the recording industry has, at the very least, been very encouraging of the new “old” format. Just as you said. Spotify has killed any new purchasing by me. But I still enjoy the whole process of flipping through albums at a record store; taking my treasures home and putting it on the turntable for the magic to happen. Hi-Fi has taken a severe nose dive too. Ask your young friends how they listen to music at home. They mostly don’t or else it is on some 2-3” Bluetooth speakers. They don’t have any use for floor standing speakers and the other required equipment. I was into CD’s because of the ease of use and never ending quality of sound. But there was so much missing that the resurgence of vinyl scratches that itch. I still listen to digital but it’s nice to have my old LPs spinning when I’m in the mood. I saw a cartoon that had the punchline “It’s the expense and inconvenience that attracted me to vinyl”! Thanks for your videos.
@Vince_Tasciotti
5 жыл бұрын
I think analog came back because, what's old is new again. It's also an interactive experience, playing a song on MP3 is, what I call, a preset experience. Sometimes it's just good to hear Chuck Berry music in it's natural environment. As a side thought: for me it's good fun just to walk around in a really good indie record store. Screw the big music store chains.
@rael2099
3 жыл бұрын
I relate 100% with your experiences with your brother. My brother and I were complete neophites about taking proper care of our records and turntables. We always had cheap, terrible turntables that ended up with leading me to hate vinyl and embracing the noise free and clarity of the first AAD CDs. I got rid of my best vinyls, sold them, threw the mistreated ones away and kept a few for sentimental purposes. The vinyl itch happened to me in a very open way: a bookstore started a 3x1 sale of all their audio and video departments, and vinyls were included. I noticed them, saw many I always wanted to have but because of reason$ I couldn't have when I was a kid, and having a bit of money saved, I bought a good stock of records, and from there I'm building a budget sound system, yet ages beyond and better than the ones I used to conform with. I'm also finding knowledge online I couldn't get that easy back in the day. Of course we now got the controversy of old vs new pressings, and the devotion of people over their preferred type of TT cough! Technics1200 cough! So for me it's a way to start over again in memory of my late brother who was so careless with the records he ruined them as soon as he took the wrapping off the freshly bought record. Expensive but beautiful hobby new generations are diving into too!
@generaluriah9569
5 жыл бұрын
I was 59 years old, kids had moved out and was able to un mothball my stereo. At my age sound had dulled significantly. Was then setup with digital hearing aids and i was reenergized. Vinyl with a good phono preamp and cartridge helped to hear a lot of sound I missed the first time around. Big differences in Recording quality from one vinyl record to another. You can find records at garage sales, flea markets, used record stores, and Ebay. I've had fun restoring my collection. Recently restored a Magnavox stereo block amp to experience the Tube Sound .
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