Thread: My vinyl collection

Right now it's zero.

Then I get to thinking. What the perfect choice for something on vinyl? Something like the soundtrack to Alien or It Follows would be almost automatic, but when am I going to play that for company? So then what do I get if I'm thinking about having something available for company? A crowd pleaser, a hidden gem? Perhaps a few of my personal favorites that aren't as well known. Maybe a few in each genre?

I am looking forward to digging through boxes of vinyl next time my son drags me to the antique store.

Records were the best sound quality IMO

Today is London Calling’s 40th anniversary so if you don’t order it today you will have forsaken the punk gods.

I once did extensive research on why vinyl sounds better than digital music. Let me see if I can rack my brain and remember the details.....

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

Right now it's zero.

If you are starting with nothing, i would work your way up. Rather than going head to toe, I would suggest starting with something like this:

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Oh yes, now I remember....

You see most music is broadcast in some lossy format, where details are missed, and the overall quality is reduced. It happens because audio files get compressed to make them small enough to store thousands of them on the phone, and to stream online. Regardless whether you listen to music on a streaming service like Apple Music or prefer MP3s or even the radio, you can't get the full picture of that track. Vinyl is far more high-quality. No audio data is lost when pressing a record. It sounds just as great as the producer or band intended.

It doesn’t sound that much better. It’s an imperfect sound. Vinyl is like seeing Cary Grant and Humphrey Bogart in old movies dressed fancy as **** and smoking cigarettes. How they look is how listening to vinyl makes people feel.

In other words, shove it up your ass WTE!

Originally Posted by aberdien

It doesn’t sound that much better. It’s an imperfect sound. Vinyl is like seeing Cary Grant and Humphrey Bogart in old movies dressed fancy as **** and smoking cigarettes. How they look is how listening to vinyl makes people feel.

In other words, shove it up your ass WTE!

This is your gonorrhea talking!

Originally Posted by WTE

This is your gonorrhea talking!

The big question is how are they recording new music? If it's starting life digital, then you can't "improve" it by putting it on vinyl. There are lossless digital mediums and I'm pretty sure they are going to sound more like the studio recording then a record.

Originally Posted by Tned

The big question is how are they recording new music? If it's starting life digital, then you can't "improve" it by putting it on vinyl. There are lossless digital mediums and I'm pretty sure they are going to sound more like the studio recording then a record.

Yes. And a lot of vinyl is reissue. So it's a digital source. As is modern studio recording technique. The analog is better argument couldn't possibly hold in those cases.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

Yes. And a lot of vinyl is reissue. So it's a digital source. As is modern studio recording technique. The analog is better argument couldn't possibly hold in those cases.

That's my thinking. Now, I think there is an argument for highly compressed MP3's, but there are many lossless or near lossless formats, including some spotify type services that focus on lossless recordings.

I'm not a big music guy, but a buddy is, so I've picked this stuff up from conversations with him.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

Yes. And a lot of vinyl is reissue. So it's a digital source. As is modern studio recording technique. The analog is better argument couldn't possibly hold in those cases.

It depends on the reissue. If the artist has access to the master tracks they will often do them properly and even remaster for the reissue. Its still a bunch of hipster nonsense to say one is better than the other, too many variables go into it.