Issues with records (good or bad, lol):
1. No shuffle play!
2. Can't set a playlist and walk away, you have to change the record.
3. No rewind to beginning of track.
4. Some old records skip
5. Not the medium for dusty or sunny environments
6. Not supporting terrible oligarchs and Joe Rogan with your streaming choices
7. No mid-record commercials interrupting your track ala YouTube
8. There is one order and one order only on listening, which is what is pressed into the vinyl
9. Medium and player is NOT SMALL
10. Can't play records in a moving vehicle
11. Need to think about what the next record you want to play is, otherwise you have a large gap in your music environment
12. Can't (easily) press your own records
13. No one tracking all your plays and clicks and ad preferences for future ingestion by the all knowing AI slop machine
14. No AI slop music
15. Very hard to give your friends a copy of a song.
16. Jogging with a record player in your pocket doesn't work.
17. Best way to stay on the cutting edge of the 1960's and 1970's emerging sound scene and "new" artists you have never heard of.
18. Fidelity is... interesting. It's like running all your digital tracks through a unique filter where the music is first pressed onto an obsolete medium, then read back through a vibrating needle on a rotating drum, which is subject to vibration by the music itself and occasional external influences, and then pushed through a speaker. THE VINYL FILTER
19. How the heck are the billionaires supposed to make money from people using old stuff? BUY NEW STUFF! BUY! BUY! BUY! BUY! ITS YOUR PATRIOTIC DUTY TO CONSUME! /s
20. Finding records is somewhat difficult. Not a lot of sources. In this area, vast amounts of the types of records floating around most are terrible white suburban Time Life record compilations and religious music.
21. Prices for Vinyl in the LA area are very inflated, esp. in LA itself (trendy hipsters driving up the price, I think).
22. How is Jeff Bezos Supposed To Make Money If You Aren't Subscribed To Amazon Music? Huh?!
23. Who is this Englebert Humperdink guy, anyway, and why does everyone have his album? 🤪
(Anyway, enjoying this very much, lol)
There is at least one place selling record sleeves for the most common records among other things. I found it a few years ago. I will see if I can find it...@coolandnormal
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My uncle, who worked at Philips, had a 45 rpm player in his car. It worked pretty well as long as the road was reasonably smooth.
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I hadn’t caught that the guy who invented the 33 1/3 LP led the 1st version and developed a separate 16 2/3 rpm record the same size as a 45 that would play an album’s worth of music
So basically a #vinyl CD player only for your car!
They didn’t work unless the suspension was tuned to ride smooth. A hard knock on tight shocks and it would skip. That killed it in the format wars
Well depends on what you mean by rewinding. You can see where the song starts based on the smooth ring from the soundless space between songs.
You can just lift the needle arm and move it to the start of the song.
I think this is why ppl often had the turntable right next to the best chair in the house, so someone could curate the listening experience.
Yeah the last time I did it I was in my teens. I had a turntable in my bedroom in high school. Got my first cd player sophomore year of college. Kept that one until I moved to Michigan.
I resisted buying cds for years as I was sure it was a passing fad. 🤪
My husband and I have had the same CD in the car since 2010.
Some Dylan album my husband loves.
No, we don’t drive much. But hubs still listens to it every time he drives solo.
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A lot of hit singles are the first or last tracks on LP sides to make them more attractive to DJ’s because of this
Also, the different areas of the record have different fidelity because the needle moves at a different rate in the groove as it nears the center of the disk
So I think the highest fidelity is at the end of each side? I forget
They’ve apparently lost a lot of the art of balancing for this when they master new vinyl releases
@AccordionBruce @ai6yr @MCDuncanLab Highest fidelity is on the outer tracks. More inches of media per second...what we now call higher bitrate.
For a given value of "highest fidelity" at any rate. Sound does not degrade proportionally to the reduction in groove inches. It would be more noticeable at high frequencies that are filtered out when mastering anyway.
@ai6yr I dipped my toes into vinyl about three years ago, now I’m all in with vintage vacuum tube amplification, TT and speakers.
It’s all old gear (the Dynaco amps are older than me) and it’s all needed work to get into shape.
It’s been a fun rabbit hole to jump into, and I really don’t have all that much invested.
The sound quality is astonishing!
Along this journey I’ve started listening to 1955-1970 instrumental jazz, mostly on the Blue Note label.
This is all new music to me. The textures and atmospheres of the recordings really touch something deep inside for me.
@lin11c @ai6yr From what I have seen, Dynaco were mostly kits, though you could get them fully built also.
Mine were built/owned by a guy who owned a local recording studio for decades.
The PAS preamp still has its original Dynaco-branded Telefunken 12AX7 tubes, which may contribute to its amazing sound.
@markc568 @ai6yr I have a Dual brand turntable, very similar to yours, with similar vintage and style (woodgrain laminate and brushed metal) Akai amplifier / tuner and tape deck, with a big pair of Avid speakers, bought by boomer parents in the 60s/70s.
It was normal then to fly from Australia to Fiji to buy them all duty free, and then ship it back.
With records it's easy to play around with the speed.
A friend used to put on a 45 of The Supremes singing "Reflections" then switch the lever to 33 1/3 rpms and claim it sounded just like The Four Tops
(tempo was a bit draggy but the voices did drop an octave or so)
"Who is this Englebert Humperdink guy, anyway"
So... I went and read his Wikipedia. Wow.
Dude has seen some shit.
I actually remember his television show on ABC. My mom loved that guy.
I was struck by his cross over appeal between America and UK in "country" music. I mean, several of his hits are written by American country and western songwriters.
Yes indeed. Engelbert Humperdinck lived a full life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbert_Humperdinck_(singer)
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