Andy Zeigert
Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦I saw a young person talking about how they just bought 6 vinyls from their favorite artists but that they didn’t have a “vinyl reader” to play them on yet, and I think I felt my face slide off.
Chris Smart@KydiaMusic Vinyl reader? :)
I'm not surprised though. I've seen articles claiming 40% of the people buying vinyl don't own a turntable, and some articles say it's closer to 50%.
It does make sense when I think about it, since the concept of a “record” is no longer tied to a specific medium. And some DJ decks are now fully digital, so “turntable” is also decoupled from the medium.
I also appreciate that the Kids are buying physical media again, and recognize it as an artform in its own right. And keeping that physical media pristine by still mostly listening to music via streaming and giving their favorite artists more streaming revenue is pretty savvy.
@KydiaMusic I still have all my old cd's, in case they come back in the same way in a few years' time. LOL Although I didn't keep the cases/covers.
Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈@VE3RWJ @KydiaMusic can I play your CDs on my vinyl reader?
Hot Dog Water, will not comply*flabberhoozled by the dumbfuckery*
Gonna lose a $50 LP the first time they decide to 'skip' a song.
Adrian Riskin 
A kid I knew in junior high used nail polish to carefully paint over LP tracks he didn't like. It actually worked in that the needle would glide pretty quickly over and get caught by the next track. I can't imagine what it was doing to the needle, but none of us thought about that at the time.
Is that person a censor now by chance? 🤪
Interesting solution to a problem I never want to exist. I'm a full-albumist.
MrGrumpyMonkey@KydiaMusic Gatta start somewhere.
Sindarina, Edge Case Detective@KydiaMusic Makes perfect sense if you do not speak the language of the olds, really 😂
I love that, “the Language of the Olds,” written in ancient hieroglyphs, too—cursive, and Old School emojis ;) <3 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Em & future cats 🇺🇦🐈🏳️🌈@KydiaMusic 🤣 wow I feel incredibly old now too 😹 my face would do the exact same thing 🫠
Thad@KydiaMusic The other day I saw a headline use the word "stream" to describe a show airing on broadcast TV.
CES@KydiaMusic My nephew has his Dad’s turntable but had zero clue how to work it correctly, fix the needle or clean the record to reduce static noise. My husband and I were more than happy to educate and even though neither of had used a record in sometime it was like riding a bike. Also fun to share the experience with someone who’s genuinely into music played on vinyl.
Steve GisselbrechtAt a party at our house once, a friend's daughter remarked to him how cool it was that our stereo had a thing on top that made it look like it was playing a vinyl record, and he blew her mind by explaining to her that in fact it was playing a vinyl record and that's where the music they were hearing was coming from.
NazoI’m sure it won’t be the last time, but it was an entirely new sensation in the moment.
@KydiaMusic If it makes you feel any better, I may not be able to do this for vinyls, but I have gotten this many many times (especially recently) in computing and gaming. People call systems "old" that I was playing almost daily up until maybe two years ago. Now I'm seeing games designed to look like they're in 320x200 or worse resolutions because they think it's a "neat retro effect."
When I was stuck with 320x200 I wanted nothing more than to see higher resolutions. I never once looked back. I still don't look back with nostalgia on just the resolutions themselves, only maybe what some did with them. But devs look back and just copy the substance of it. *Sigh*
It’s a similar issue with vinyl, probably. The “warmth” of vinyl that audiophiles praise is more due to the analog equipment it was originally recorded and mixed on, back before digital audio workstations and MIDI were not even options. Now that warmth is not easily replicated via digital tools and the vinyl itself is not going to impart that warmth on its own.
I listened to Shout by Tears for Fears on streaming through my studio speakers and the warmth was def still there.
@KydiaMusic Well, IMO the main benefit of vinyl is its relative immunity to the loudness war. A lot of people may not even realize that's the difference they're really looking for though. There is literally no reason that can't be done the same in digital except that they don't want to and honestly that kind of angers me.
I remember once getting the soundtrack on CD for a game with amazing music I enjoyed and the bad equalization they had put into the game itself was baked into the soundtrack even. There was literal clipping in the audio actually in the CD audio... And the thing is, if they made a vinyl and didn't reengineer it for that, it would still be just as bad, but the reason they would have to is it would produce multiple records for the one soundtrack...
Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸*needle scratch*
(Funny story, but the post just below this one said *needle scratch*)
JamesWNeal@KydiaMusic Issa Vinyl Reader where a woman in a turban gazes into the grooves of your disc, puts her hand to her forehead, then tells you what mood she feels as she reads the groove?
Seriously though, I know there are kids who buy records just to display them, never get a "reader." Then there are those who like the pops and ticks and scratches because somebody told them that's the coveted old-school, vinyl sound.
deewani@KydiaMusic I’ve heard them called “the big black CDs my dad had” but this was. 10 years ago….
Sordid Amok!@KydiaMusic I bought a used turntable today for $25. I'm going to use it to listen to polka albums.
Gamy@KydiaMusic well - maybe a vinyl "recorder"? 😂
https://nadelectronics.com/products/pp-4-digital-phono-usb-preamplifier
gotofritzVinyl? I had to explain to a youngster what a DVD is...
ScriptFanix💍
@KydiaMusic I bought cassettes and have no cassette player. 🤷
You get the music some other way, and buy the physical medium to support the artist and have some kind of "token".
2xfo@ScriptFanix @KydiaMusic
I paid for CDs and i don't have anything i even want to put them in. The fact that they came with digital download makes me think maybe i should have got the vinyl instead (but it probably costs more)
I know i can use my PC to rip CDs again if i ever need to so that's practical for me at least
I paid for CDs and i don't have anything i even want to put them in. The fact that they came with digital download makes me think maybe i should have got the vinyl instead (but it probably costs more)
I know i can use my PC to rip CDs again if i ever need to so that's practical for me at least
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️Oh you mean an RRR - Revolving Recording Reader
Dogiedog64Did you tell them how cheap record players are? They're only like $100-200 these days.
caitp@KydiaMusic @synkr3tyk aren't they super cheap these days? those el cheapo 7" ones on amazon that only play 45s and only output through a builtin speaker and bluetooth, in order to protect people from the allure of golden cables
Len@KydiaMusic my mum's "vinyl reader" apparently has a USB port, which strikes me as very anachronistic. Apparently it's for recording.
Ruby@KydiaMusic total tangent, but that ALT text, is it bait? That's Private Ryan, not Benjamin Burton, isn't it?
Sorry to kinda call you out, I'm just making sure I haven't skipped into an alternative timeline