<p>Was wandering through a Best Buy at lunch and saw that they were selling a limited number of LP records. They wanted $30+ for Neil Young’s Harvest.</p>
<p>Is it time to drag the old turntable out of mothballs?</p>
<p>Yes! We still have a turntable and lots of vinyl (mostly classical) LPs. Despite the occasional scratches, I still prefer the sound of vinyl, and in some cases you can’t even get the same recordings on CD.</p>
<p>Harvest surprises me but some people are into vinyl. It grew out the DJ scene but that obviously doesn’t fit Harvest. </p>
<p>I’m quite happy with digital music.</p>
<p>Vinyl is absolutely making a comeback. Somehow, college students started getting introduced to vinyl, and we realized that while iPods are great, digital music just doesn’t have the same character. Some bands, particularly indie bands, are starting to release new music on vinyl. Every record shop I’ve been in in the past few years has been doing booming business and has a devoted following. I think this following is more among big music buffs, particularly fans of the classics and the people who like their music so indie that they attempt to kill bands just so no one else will ever be able to hear them, but hopefully that will soon spread to the general population.</p>
<p>USB turntables were flying off the shelves at our Costco last night!</p>
<p>We had some long time friends come for a visit recently and we got out our 45 collection to play. Our son was amazed. He’d never seen such a thing before. Wanted to know how many songs were on each one thinking it was some new kind of CD.</p>
<p>I’m old, I’m very, very old :(</p>
<p>Vinyl is huge
[Rare</a> and Vintage Vinyl Records - Collector Information | Collectors Weekly](<a href=“http://www.collectorsweekly.com/records/overview]Rare”>http://www.collectorsweekly.com/records/overview)</p>
<p>When I joined the Pearl Jam fan club many years ago, I found that one of the perks is a Christmas 45 ( even if it isn’t mailed till valentine’s day)</p>
<p>For the last five years vintage LP’s have been my Christmas gift of choice to friends. I usually buy them for the cover art since most of my friends always have the old standards.Ikea has some great LP plastic box frames as well. I also bought DD and DH a LP to digital converter so they can work on our 600-700 LP collection.</p>
<p>Vinyl always has a warmer sound. I even like the pops and clicks. And there is nothing like sitting on the couch with an actual cover with liner notes while you are listening to music (what’s to read on a CD?)</p>
<p>I guarantee anyone that a blind test will show that vinyl is not warmer sounding. It’s just a thing that people are into. Like the t-shirts my daughters have that are of icons and ideas from my childhood - from Hendrix and peace symbols, etc.</p>
<p>Yeah, I don’t get it. I quit buying music because the pops and static sounds were SO distracting. I resumed buying music when CDs came out.</p>
<p>So I still have albums sitting in my garage - are they worth something?</p>
<p>Well perhaps warmer is not the proper word…I can definately tell the difference between the two. My neighbor is a music engineer and he says it has more to do with the manner in which the music was mastered. Basically LPs sound good because their dynamic range and frequency characteristics are constrained to fit what’s comfortable for human ears. Vinyl is best at reproducing frequencies up to about 1KHZ. After that there’s a compromise between reproducing high frequencies and introducing distortion.</p>
<p>So a properly mastered vinyl record tends to have an EQ tilt, where the bass is slightly louder than the treble. Hence “warmth.”</p>
<p>Warm, not warm …it’ s an old music industry chestnut.</p>
<p>“are they worth something”—yes…to me!</p>
<p>Nobody is going to convince me to go back to a medium that can’t stand to sit for half an hour in a hot car. </p>
<p>But I do miss the album cover art. LP records were BIG, which left a lot of room for creativity on the covers.</p>
<p>I just can’t believe that they (whoever “they” are) are releasing new LPs for over $30 that I probably paid $7-8 for back in the early 1970s.</p>
<p>I still have the original LPs somewhere, but I no longer have a turntable and I don’t feel like buying one, not too mention a cartridge.</p>
<p>I don’t miss listening to a skip or stuck needle one little bit. I had two ELP Brain Salad Surgery albums because I was too lazy to get up and flip the record over - And one of the songs was cut in half: part of it was on Side A and the rest of it was on Side B. It really ruined the mood of the piece to have all that dead air in the middle of it. </p>
<p>I have about a dozen LP’s that I’ve hung on to over the years, and, yes, I still have my turntable - just in case. Take Five is probably my most treasured vinyl. Regret selling my parents’ Bill Cosby recordings. Miss the cover art on albums, too. Despite all that, digitally is the way this woman wants her music recorded and produced.</p>