I can't believe this is happening to me, but it is.
Back in 1986 I bought my first CD player and I never looked back... it was "goodbye forever" to old records, and I quickly embraced the new media of Compact Disc and what I then considered "superior sound". I replaced everything onto CD, and never thought I'd ever return to Vinyl.
But recently I was going around on YouTube and I noticed a fan of vinyl 45rpms, who had hundreds of samples from his record collection shown. He has a really excellent system (I will later show a couple of examples of his 45's)... I was astonished at how GREAT the sound quality was, and I was impressed. I found myself locating and playing dozens of samples from his archives, and was greatly in awe. And not only the SOUND of the music, but the old look of a record - the fun in spinning it, watching the label going around. Of course, this is something vinyl enthusiasts have collectively felt and hung onto for decades now already. Vinyl is making a comeback today -- and for many, it has never really died at all.
But for myself, something happened about five years ago.. I actually sold off a huge chunk of my ages-old and prized vinyl LP and 45 collection! Being a huge Beatles collector something like 37 years back, I had amassed a large and impressive set of Beatles records -- imports, bootlegs, U.S. treasures, picture sleeves, etc -- but they had actually sat in the closet for the last 25 years untouched, and I never dreamt I'd ever return to them after embracing CD technology --- so I unloaded 90% of them! Now I want many of them back -- and I may eventually get around to re-buying them.
Well, that's the jist of it. I want to return to the fun and great sound of VINYL. And I may go ahead and order a great turntable (with a magnetic cartridge, which I am told is very important). The model I have in mind is much like the old Technics brand I once owned, and has the "pitch control" that can either slightly make the records faster or slower (when they sometimes don't sound like they're in the right pitch).
Following in the next post are a couple of examples of this guy's great sound system, and the pleasures of vinyl...
Back in 1986 I bought my first CD player and I never looked back... it was "goodbye forever" to old records, and I quickly embraced the new media of Compact Disc and what I then considered "superior sound". I replaced everything onto CD, and never thought I'd ever return to Vinyl.
But recently I was going around on YouTube and I noticed a fan of vinyl 45rpms, who had hundreds of samples from his record collection shown. He has a really excellent system (I will later show a couple of examples of his 45's)... I was astonished at how GREAT the sound quality was, and I was impressed. I found myself locating and playing dozens of samples from his archives, and was greatly in awe. And not only the SOUND of the music, but the old look of a record - the fun in spinning it, watching the label going around. Of course, this is something vinyl enthusiasts have collectively felt and hung onto for decades now already. Vinyl is making a comeback today -- and for many, it has never really died at all.
But for myself, something happened about five years ago.. I actually sold off a huge chunk of my ages-old and prized vinyl LP and 45 collection! Being a huge Beatles collector something like 37 years back, I had amassed a large and impressive set of Beatles records -- imports, bootlegs, U.S. treasures, picture sleeves, etc -- but they had actually sat in the closet for the last 25 years untouched, and I never dreamt I'd ever return to them after embracing CD technology --- so I unloaded 90% of them! Now I want many of them back -- and I may eventually get around to re-buying them.
Well, that's the jist of it. I want to return to the fun and great sound of VINYL. And I may go ahead and order a great turntable (with a magnetic cartridge, which I am told is very important). The model I have in mind is much like the old Technics brand I once owned, and has the "pitch control" that can either slightly make the records faster or slower (when they sometimes don't sound like they're in the right pitch).
Following in the next post are a couple of examples of this guy's great sound system, and the pleasures of vinyl...
