Vinyl Guy

Really old motherfucker incoming.

Fair warning.

Fucking kids, you fucking kids.

Let me do my drive bys and post about the glory of Minnesota Gopher Golden Football and seven National Championships.

No, draw me into this.

I am moving in stereo, for the moment.

 

MH, you missed the chance to mention ownership of a certain bronze pig trophy earlier this fall …

 

An internet massage board idiot has to know his limitations.

 

8-tracks or get the fuck out!

 

And the Age of Aquarius by the Fifth Dimension rocks.

On cassette smiley face insert

The deal with cassettes is to replace the pad and a good deck like a Tascam C-3X .

I'm going down the reel to reel road as well.

My wife is so happy with me.

 

Motherfucker, Craig / Pioneer Stereo 8.

Look that up and TELL ME it doesn't have the look.

 

Same here. I was on an Afrobeat kick for a while. Lately it's been a lot of 60s reggae/ska/dub/dancehall stuff from Jamaica. Just got a Desmond Dekker compilation from Trojan Records. My old CD collection is a hell of a lot more narrowly focused. Not really sure why that is.

I think there are a lot of reasons for it and they'll vary from person to person.

I grew up with vinyl, switched to CD, and then came back to (mostly) vinyl about ten years ago. I like the way it sounds -- even with the occasional pops and clicks. I like the physical presence of the record. I like committing to listening to a whole side of a record instead of jumping from track to track.

I think a lot of young people view records as collectibles, which can be kind of annoying, but whatever.

I think there are also a lot of young people who are discovering how good music can sound, and I don't mean that in a "experience the warmth of vinyl" kind of way. I think there are a hell of a lot of people who got used to hearing their favorite songs as low-quality MP3s playing through shitty computer speakers. To then hear it through an actual stereo with speakers is a revelation. Even a shitty entry-level turntable with speakers will sound better than how they've heard music until then. I mean, I experienced that, and I was someone who always had a full sound system before the MP3 revolution.

The cassette thing annoys the hell out of me. It's such an affectation. I grew up in the heart of the cassette era. They were shit. Every single thing that made a cassette useful was dramatically improved by the CD. Portability? Mixtapes? Relatively inexpensive? CD beats it across the board -- and the iPod/iPhone does too.

 

WHY ARE THERE NO GOOD PICTURES OF THE CRAIG/PIONEER 8 TRACK ONLINE

 

When I was a kid a recorded 8 tracks from albums to play in the car.

Zappa, Tull, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Charlie Daniels, Fleetwood Mac, even Bread.

Still have them all.

Including Deep Purple.

They need new pads and there are folks out there who do it.

Time and convenience, sending some out after Thanksgiving.

 

This. I bought my first real stereo when I was a senior in high school. Yamaha receiver, Advent speakers. Not high end but a decent set up, low distortion. If your primary sound comes from a phone playing mp3s or maybe a Bluetooth speaker, when you discover a real honest to god hifi set up it sounds great. Vinyl also has a ritual appeal in handling the record, sorta like wine snobs or coffee gourmets who have to grind their own beans in the right sort of grinder. There is also the album art and the liner notes which add a lot to the package.

 

I have tons of vinyl but haven't had a turntable hooked up in ages. I was a quasi-collector, as much as my 20-something budget would allow in those days, had a Goldmine subscription and still kick myself for not buying/grabbing the Phonolog my local store had when it closed.

I was never an audiophile, could never afford a really good stereo, but that never got in the way of my listening. We have a great stereo we bought some years back, can't remember the last time we used it.

 

As I said above, the vast majority of the music I listen to comes from my phone or computer and through a set of Sennheiser Bluetooth headphones. Both source and speakers are less than audiophile optimum, but they are adequate for my needs.