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
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 🇳🇱
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!
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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 :')
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. ;-)
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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. 🤘🏻
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
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".
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!
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!!
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).
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...
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.
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!
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.
@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.
@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.
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
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
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
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!
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.
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
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?
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!
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 .
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!
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.
Best notification today! I had a similar experience. I had just remodeled my attic and found several old records in boxes and thought "man I would like to start listening to records again" I went on to Amazon and bought myself a record player and started listening to records again. I had no idea Vinyl had made a come back. I now own a RT81 after discovering your RUclips channel. Haha!
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 💪
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
So good to see you again! I was starting to get worried. There is a huge library out there that can be had for a bargain, if you are interested in the old stuff. Back in the day I would buy and album and record it to cassette, and store away the album. So I had a small collection that was basically unplayed. I also had a 60's stereo console that my family had from my childhood. I have a connection to that old piece of furniture. It served as a TV stand for a long time. I had many thoughts of how to upgrade it. In the end I just dropped in the RT81 and ran the lines to a modern AV receiver. I hung the TV on the wall ( they were getting too large to set on top anyway). Its speakers do work very well as a center channel for videos. So for me it is an attempt to cherish the past. I have since acquired some older albums of stuff that I had in other formats. Some are excellent quality and some were not engineered or pressed as good. I bought Joe Bonamassa's LP John Henry because I wanted to hear his drummer striking those cymbals and compare it to the digital versions. In the end it comes down to how much money do you want to spend on the new pressings. Should I buy a Microline? Although it is analog it is also mechanical sound reproduction. Why do people want tube amplifiers? I understand why guitarists love them. I think CD's should be offered in LP sleeves. A basement sounds like an excellent escape. Solid floor for the turntable. Turn up the music as loud as you like and a great place to do some home brewing. haha.
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.
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.
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!
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. ✌️😎👍
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.
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.
@@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
@@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
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!
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 :)
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.
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.
Hi Craig - I also have had similar pattern of early on (teens) listening to vinyl in parents old fidelity multi record player which my grandfather soldered and fitted a jack plug to let me listen with headphones! Excited by cd’s bought my pioneer multi cd changer and only had cash left for a cd single on discount a song from the movie ‘Scrooge’d’ But treated myself to a new turntable and amp, speakers and amazed even digging old lp’s from my parents loft listened to ABBA arrival and (not ever being an ABBA fan, quite the opposite) and it sounded amazing - so back into vinyl in a big way, touring charity stores , and picking up vinyl wherever I go . Thanks for your great videos- respect from Scotland 🏴- David h
I have been enjoying your channel very much. I wanted to ask you for a favor, in a lot of your videos, in particular the one I just watched which was from six months ago about cleaning your records. Please don't assume that all of us are seasoned vinyl collectors. You say stuff like well you've seen this before or I don't have to waste time explaining this to you, and that's not true. I watch your channel in order to learn and also share time with someone else who is passionate about vinyl. I Am brand new to collecting, less than 1 month, and I haven't seen anything and have more to learn then I realized most likely. Thank you very much for remembering that some of us out here are newbies and still wet behind the ears :-)
Greetings. My name is Gustavo and I am 51 years old. I have a collection of about 100 vinyl records, and for the last 20 years I have not been listening to them, since the technics record player I had bought in 1989 was damaged. I do not remember the specific model, but it cost me $120 at that time. It was a simple and semiautomatic model. For a long time I had wanted to get another record player, but for various reasons I had not bought it. I also have a large collection of CDs and I kept listening to my music through these. But finally I decided to buy another this week, a Fluance RT81. The video you made about this model helped me to decide for him. Please, if you know where we can buy discs online, let us know. Thank you for all the info.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Really love your videos Craig! Please keep them coming! Nothing like Vinyl! Thanks for all your sharing it is very therapeutic...I bought an Audio Technica LP120 after watching one of your videos and installed an Ortofon Blue stylus and it is amazing! Thinking about getting a nicer turntable like a Fluance in the near future. It is about the "experience" and enjoying something of our history and incredible music age of the 70's and 80's in this over technical age! Thank you!
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...
Reason for vinyl resurgence: RUclipsrs 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.
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!
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!
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.
just got back into vinyl after 25 years of not even touching them, like you I stopped listening to music and was basically just listening to talk radio, I like the work that goes into playing a record and I believe that nothing sounds better than a new record
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 :))
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.
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.
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
As usual a nice video from you Craig. Vinyl was the audio medium we grew up with that had a bit of charm to it. A lot more interesting than tape deck and cassettes. When the CD arrived we was rather impressed with the quality of the tunes and the stability of the medium, but they do lack the charm of the vinyl. Best regards to you and your family. Take Care and 17.... :)
I came across a turntable review a couple weeks ago and followed it to a high-end turntable show in Munich. I couldn't believe the number of turntables and the names I had never heard of before. So, now I'm moving through the vinyl reviews from albums I listened to in the 70s. I still have a few albums packed away, that I will have to dig out. I have a couple Bowie and Cooper albums framed for the wall from the old days.
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.
@@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.
Great video Craig, vinyl is fun simple as that! That's why I listen to it after being a digital only guy for many years. It's not "better" but it's definitely different and that's good enough for me!
My LPs were stored in my downstairs cupboard, but had never listened to them on my new system, so I bought an old Thoren's turntable off ebay, stuck a record on and thought wow this sounds fantastic. 5 years on I am with a few upgrades I am still listening and enjoying. I must say though that with an external modern DAC, CDs and High quality streams can sound amazing.
I'm 34, so I have memories of playing my dad's vinyl records when I was a kid, 2 years ago is when I started getting into it, and there just is something more enjoyable about listening to a record, do I still look at used cd's sure, but after so many years of listening to classic rock songs, albums from the 70s, 80s through MP3 and such, it is refreshing and feels complete listening to them on vinyl. Also just got to the conspiracy theory part, and I have thought about this before, because in their prime, CDs' were sold for $15-20 each. Then the past 10 years CD's now sell for $10 around, and stuff like Spotify is free, plus downloading, new vinyl usually is $25, sometimes $20, so absolutely record companies love that. I mostly get records at flea markets or thrift stores.
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!!
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.
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. 😎👍
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.
I'm 27, didn't grow with Vinyl, and what draws me to it is that I simply felt I wasn't listening to music anymore. Streaming music is alright and I won't stop doing it, but I guess it is so convenient that it takes away some of the enjoyment of listening to your favorite songs. You add to that the enjoyment of collecting physical media with huge printed art and it becomes a very attractive idea, and I didn't even know Vinyl was resurging when I started looking into it.
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.
Great video, great discussion. I’ll offer the following: 1. Create an acoustic recording of a small group, no electronic instruments, and initially commit that to a 2-channel DSD file. Take that same file, run it through a two channel tube mixer and punch the tune to a Vinyl disk as best you can. Do a blind A vs B listening test on a variety of playback equipment with a group of people asking them not which is more accurate but which of the two sounds they prefer. You’ll find that the vast majority will prefer the sound of the Vinyl disc. 2. Capture a short video on a Red Monstro 8K VV in RED RAW ( 8192 x 4320, 60fps ) camera. Edit that same video down to 2048 x 858 23.976 FPS DCP ( Digital Cinema Package ) theater presentation format. Present that video to a regular person group two ways. One on a Samsung or Sony Studio standard editing terminal the other on a movie theater 160ft x 90ft screen. You’ll find an overwhelming preference for the DCP movie theater format presentation. The group will indicate that they prefer the 2048 x 858 23.976 FPS DCP movie theater format presentation every time. That’s just the way it is. I disagree with you on the power of the music publishers. They have literally been gutted. They have no power anymore to dictate anything. IMO they are reacting more to who becomes popular on TV and RUclips rather then whom ever they can concoct themselves.
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.
Great video and awesome to see you again. I love vinyl with bigger artwork and although it’s part nostalgia it’s wonderful to be involved in it. I don’t know if it sounds better. I can’t tell but others say it does. Perhaps it’s because I grew up with it. Yes It could have something to do with the record companies that it’s back. I wouldn’t be surprised.
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.
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
Digital is the peak of convenience. Vinyl is the peak of the experience.
Very well said...👍🏾
@@NawMan357 That was VERY on point!
This should be top comment
@@utub1473 Exactly!
Well said
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 🇳🇱
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!
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.
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.
Same as film,analog music provides different expirience.
@@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.
@@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.
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 :')
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. ;-)
Definately !! Hunting down clean vinyl, covers etc !
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.
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.
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.
Wow. I cannot even imagine that many. Most we ever accumulated is around 300-400.
@@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.
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.
Excellent observation. 😀👍
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.
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.
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.
Dig in guy!
Still have my 1960s studio turntable :-) ruclips.net/video/I3aV7znfHqw/видео.html&lc=z22gdh04ew2ufnzmbacdp430shmkdfbygkhf4tznuvtw03c010c
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
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!
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. 🤘🏻
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
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".
Records never left, people came back .
Amen
well said. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Hear Hear!
best answer
Nailed it
My logo say it, I still got my first bought record, 56 years ago
Hello from norway ! I like your way of thinking
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!
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
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.
Hammer
Me too, I’m 60
im jealous! i wanted t live earlyer so i couldve been to a concert from The Doors.
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.
Robin Alexander Same here! Class of “77”
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.
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!
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.
A lot of us Boomers grew up listening to our parents playing records. A strong motivation for many of us.
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.
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!!
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).
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...
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.
Some tracks deserve being skipped. 😎
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!
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.
@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.
@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.
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
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
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
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!
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.
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
For the first time in three decades, I have the space and the freedom to enjoy LP's again......
And I'm loving it...!!!
Hope you're having as much fun as I am..!!
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?
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!
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 .
Love your videos man . Hope you keep making them.
Love your passion for vinyl. Looking forward to getting my first turntable for a long time! Really enjoy your vlogs!
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!
I went back to vinyl because of nostalgia, and for some warmth in this cold digital age.
And thanks for mentioning LOST :)
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.
Best notification today! I had a similar experience. I had just remodeled my attic and found several old records in boxes and thought "man I would like to start listening to records again" I went on to Amazon and bought myself a record player and started listening to records again. I had no idea Vinyl had made a come back. I now own a RT81 after discovering your RUclips channel. Haha!
joelesp1978 love the rt81 dont u? I bought mime with the help of his recommendation.
@@thevinyltruffle Yes, I Love my RT81. I've had it going on a year now. I listen to records all the time. So glad that I came across Craig's channel!
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 💪
I'm also 53 and i never stopped listening to vinyl.I am glad that the younger generation is into it.
Awesome!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
So good to see you again! I was starting to get worried. There is a huge library out there that can be had for a bargain, if you are interested in the old stuff. Back in the day I would buy and album and record it to cassette, and store away the album. So I had a small collection that was basically unplayed. I also had a 60's stereo console that my family had from my childhood. I have a connection to that old piece of furniture. It served as a TV stand for a long time. I had many thoughts of how to upgrade it. In the end I just dropped in the RT81 and ran the lines to a modern AV receiver. I hung the TV on the wall ( they were getting too large to set on top anyway). Its speakers do work very well as a center channel for videos. So for me it is an attempt to cherish the past. I have since acquired some older albums of stuff that I had in other formats. Some are excellent quality and some were not engineered or pressed as good. I bought Joe Bonamassa's LP John Henry because I wanted to hear his drummer striking those cymbals and compare it to the digital versions. In the end it comes down to how much money do you want to spend on the new pressings. Should I buy a Microline? Although it is analog it is also mechanical sound reproduction. Why do people want tube amplifiers? I understand why guitarists love them. I think CD's should be offered in LP sleeves. A basement sounds like an excellent escape. Solid floor for the turntable. Turn up the music as loud as you like and a great place to do some home brewing. haha.
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.
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.
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!
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. ✌️😎👍
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.
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?
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.
@@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
@@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
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.
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!
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 :)
@@petervanvalderen9136 Just keep a pencil by the cassete deck....you never know when you'll need it 😁
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.
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.
Hi Craig - I also have had similar pattern of early on (teens) listening to vinyl in parents old fidelity multi record player which my grandfather soldered and fitted a jack plug to let me listen with headphones! Excited by cd’s bought my pioneer multi cd changer and only had cash left for a cd single on discount a song from the movie ‘Scrooge’d’ But treated myself to a new turntable and amp, speakers and amazed even digging old lp’s from my parents loft listened to ABBA arrival and (not ever being an ABBA fan, quite the opposite) and it sounded amazing - so back into vinyl in a big way, touring charity stores , and picking up vinyl wherever I go . Thanks for your great videos- respect from Scotland 🏴- David h
I have been enjoying your channel very much. I wanted to ask you for a favor, in a lot of your videos, in particular the one I just watched which was from six months ago about cleaning your records. Please don't assume that all of us are seasoned vinyl collectors. You say stuff like well you've seen this before or I don't have to waste time explaining this to you, and that's not true. I watch your channel in order to learn and also share time with someone else who is passionate about vinyl. I Am brand new to collecting, less than 1 month, and I haven't seen anything and have more to learn then I realized most likely. Thank you very much for remembering that some of us out here are newbies and still wet behind the ears :-)
Greetings. My name is Gustavo and I am 51 years old. I have a collection of about 100 vinyl records, and for the last 20 years I have not been listening to them, since the technics record player I had bought in 1989 was damaged. I do not remember the specific model, but it cost me $120 at that time. It was a simple and semiautomatic model. For a long time I had wanted to get another record player, but for various reasons I had not bought it. I also have a large collection of CDs and I kept listening to my music through these. But finally I decided to buy another this week, a Fluance RT81. The video you made about this model helped me to decide for him. Please, if you know where we can buy discs online, let us know. Thank you for all the info.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Really love your videos Craig! Please keep them coming! Nothing like Vinyl! Thanks for all your sharing it is very therapeutic...I bought an Audio Technica LP120 after watching one of your videos and installed an Ortofon Blue stylus and it is amazing! Thinking about getting a nicer turntable like a Fluance in the near future. It is about the "experience" and enjoying something of our history and incredible music age of the 70's and 80's in this over technical age! Thank you!
I reckon you might be the best dude of RUclips ! Love your channel and its content. And love vinyl :)
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.
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 😂
I agree. I enjoy listening to music at music stores before purchasing. It's fun.
Buying (spelt ) 🤣
thank you for the great videos I never left vinyl it was just always there I had Digital2 but records to still held a place in my heart
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...
Reason for vinyl resurgence: RUclipsrs 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.
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!
Thats the SAME reasons i bought myself again a turntable, and enjoy the rituals and the music again.
Am i getting old??
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!
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.
just got back into vinyl after 25 years of not even touching them, like you I stopped listening to music and was basically just listening to talk radio, I like the work that goes into playing a record and I believe that nothing sounds better than a new record
this is such a lovely channel. :) thank you for sharing all your experiences.
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 :))
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.
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.
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
Vinyl never went away for me. I have always collected since the 1970's. Now today I have hundreds of albums.
As usual a nice video from you Craig. Vinyl was the audio medium we grew up with that had a bit of charm to it. A lot more interesting than tape deck and cassettes. When the CD arrived we was rather impressed with the quality of the tunes and the stability of the medium, but they do lack the charm of the vinyl. Best regards to you and your family. Take Care and 17.... :)
I came across a turntable review a couple weeks ago and followed it to a high-end turntable show in Munich. I couldn't believe the number of turntables and the names I had never heard of before. So, now I'm moving through the vinyl reviews from albums I listened to in the 70s. I still have a few albums packed away, that I will have to dig out. I have a couple Bowie and Cooper albums framed for the wall from the old days.
I hope music collectors would have the same appreciation for CD's as they do for LP's someday.
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.
CD's won't last nearly as long as Vinyl because of disc rot/deterioration.
@@Kit_Bear My first CD from 1984 hasn't rotted yet. LOL. What's going to rot?
@@philip6502 The reflective surface layer isn't going to last forever, Or at least last longer than a record.
@@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.
Great video Craig, vinyl is fun simple as that! That's why I listen to it after being a digital only guy for many years. It's not "better" but it's definitely different and that's good enough for me!
My LPs were stored in my downstairs cupboard, but had never listened to them on my new system, so I bought an old Thoren's turntable off ebay, stuck a record on and thought wow this sounds fantastic. 5 years on I am with a few upgrades I am still listening and enjoying. I must say though that with an external modern DAC, CDs and High quality streams can sound amazing.
How about all the Great artwork on the LP sleeves that add to the vinyl experience.
I'm 34, so I have memories of playing my dad's vinyl records when I was a kid, 2 years ago is when I started getting into it, and there just is something more enjoyable about listening to a record, do I still look at used cd's sure, but after so many years of listening to classic rock songs, albums from the 70s, 80s through MP3 and such, it is refreshing and feels complete listening to them on vinyl.
Also just got to the conspiracy theory part, and I have thought about this before, because in their prime, CDs' were sold for $15-20 each. Then the past 10 years CD's now sell for $10 around, and stuff like Spotify is free, plus downloading, new vinyl usually is $25, sometimes $20, so absolutely record companies love that. I mostly get records at flea markets or thrift stores.
And its really nice to see An Enthusiast valued for what he loves. Thank you for Your videos!
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!!
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.
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. 😎👍
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.
"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😍
I used to hang out at Tower records back in the day and peruse the bins for hours.
There are multiple reasons for the big vinyl boom! I will hopefully do a response video to this Craig.. you rock !
I'm 27, didn't grow with Vinyl, and what draws me to it is that I simply felt I wasn't listening to music anymore. Streaming music is alright and I won't stop doing it, but I guess it is so convenient that it takes away some of the enjoyment of listening to your favorite songs. You add to that the enjoyment of collecting physical media with huge printed art and it becomes a very attractive idea, and I didn't even know Vinyl was resurging when I started looking into it.
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.
Great video, great discussion. I’ll offer the following:
1. Create an acoustic recording of a small group, no electronic instruments, and initially commit that to a 2-channel DSD file. Take that same file, run it through a two channel tube mixer and punch the tune to a Vinyl disk as best you can. Do a blind A vs B listening test on a variety of playback equipment with a group of people asking them not which is more accurate but which of the two sounds they prefer. You’ll find that the vast majority will prefer the sound of the Vinyl disc.
2. Capture a short video on a Red Monstro 8K VV in RED RAW ( 8192 x 4320, 60fps ) camera. Edit that same video down to 2048 x 858 23.976 FPS DCP ( Digital Cinema Package ) theater presentation format. Present that video to a regular person group two ways. One on a Samsung or Sony Studio standard editing terminal the other on a movie theater 160ft x 90ft screen. You’ll find an overwhelming preference for the DCP movie theater format presentation. The group will indicate that they prefer the 2048 x 858 23.976 FPS DCP movie theater format presentation every time.
That’s just the way it is.
I disagree with you on the power of the music publishers. They have literally been gutted. They have no power anymore to dictate anything. IMO they are reacting more to who becomes popular on TV and RUclips rather then whom ever they can concoct themselves.
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.
Great video and awesome to see you again. I love vinyl with bigger artwork and although it’s part nostalgia it’s wonderful to be involved in it. I don’t know if it sounds better. I can’t tell but others say it does. Perhaps it’s because I grew up with it. Yes It could have something to do with the record companies that it’s back. I wouldn’t be surprised.
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.