Are you buying vinyl again?

[bermudagold]

not buying vinyl,...but like a lot of people I know, buying turntables and all the maintenance accessories so we can enjoy our old vinyl collections...I have so much vinyl and cassettes to digitize, every time i start I get overwhelmed...but I sure as hell aint tryin to find it all online and rebuy digital versions.
everything goes in cycles, and there is always some aspect of life where retro becomes trendy...everything in society right now is obsessed with nostalgia...says more about psychology, the human condition, and the state of the world than anything...isn't that at least 3/4 of kvr...obsessive nostalgia for old hardware?

[fese]

..isn't that at least 3/4 of kvr...obsessive nostalgia for old hardware?

Even for old software at times

[ATS]

I got a really nice setup for my records. Sounds wonderful.

[dark water]

In terms of listening to commercial music, I'm not massively fussed whether the format is vinyl, CD or mp3 (as long as it is at a 256 kbps variable rate or better etc).
As such, for convenience more than anything else, I haven't bothered buying a record player or any vinyl records, as I can listen to my favourite commercial artists' music via downloads now.


However, I remember a KVR thread from about 3 years ago, I might have even created it myself(?), about trying to buy a (at least half-decent) vinyl cutter to print my music onto records.
I make a fair amount of 1970s style dub reggae and so the warmth / notion of putting my music onto a vinyl record made sense to me here.

I remember that the thread got a number of excellent replies, including the recommendation to check out: https://www.lathetrolls.com/

However, at that time of the thread, there didn't seem to be any massively affordable or tempting options on the market for vinyl cutting one's own music.
(there were rumours of a company, whose name I now forget, occasionally selling vinyl cutters for approx £2000, but there were also comments by a couple of KVR members to say that dealing with the company owner was not an easy thing, to put it mildly).


Since then, a new company has started to (promise to...) make vinyl pressing machines called Phonocut - and they were being sold on Kickstarter at a special pre-order price of Euros 999 in October 2019:
https://www.whathifi.com/news/now-you-c ... ng-machine

However, I have just visited the company's own website and it looks as if the Phonocut machine is still on pre-order for an 'intro price' of Euros 2,499.
(although maybe things got delayed because of Covid lockdown issues etc):
https://phonocut.com/



In addition to Phonocut, this new option also looks pretty tempting:
https://www.yurisuzuki.com/design-studi ... ecordmaker


Lastly, one of these old Vestax models might occasionally turn up on Ebay etc:
https://www.vinylengine.com/library/ves ... 2000.shtml


So I may yet decide to get a vinyl cutter to put my dub reggae efforts onto record, although it could all be just too much hassle with some of those vinyl cutting machines, as per this blog:
https://thevinylfactory.com/features/a- ... n-records/

[BONES]

Every now and then if I'm on my own I'll make a point of finding some new music - or something old but trusted and make a big deal of listening to it.

I do that pretty much every day, it's a simple matter of having the desire to do it. I get up about 45 minutes before I have to go to work, which is usually long enough to listen to a whole album and that's what I do. If I don't finish it in the morning, I'll listen to the rest of it when I get home, while I'm preparing dinner. Sometimes I go for a drive, just to listen to an album right through with minimal distraction.

Vinyl and CDs are good for that, as they give you something relevant to look at and read while you listen. More of a multi-media experience. The closest I've got to that with digital music is Microsoft's Zune. My Zune HD used to automatically upload band bios, album reviews and photos for any of the artists on the device, whenever you connected it to a wi-fi network. With the AV Dock I could run it through my TV and just sit back and immerse myself in the artist. When you finish reading, it creates a screensaver on the fly to keep you engaged. The Zune software has an even better screensaver, a mosaic of your album covers that changes as you watch. Of course, Microsoft have all but killed it now but my 11 year old Zune HD is still going strong and I have a box full of spare parts that should keep it going for a long time yet.

Anyway, I think my vinyl collection peaked at around 600 LPs and over 200 7", 10" and 12" singles/EPs in the mid 80s but I bought my first CD player in 1986 and I haven't looked back. I used to buy a record, record it onto a TEAC SA-90 cassette, then put it in a zip-lock bag and never touch it again. I remember when I bought Buzzcocks' first album on CD, it had hi-hats and cymbals that had been worn off the cassette years earlier. It was a revelation! A portable format that sounded almost like vinyl and was almost as convenient as cassettes was the greatest thing that ever happened to music as far as I'm concerned.

These days I see CDs as a replacement for vinyl, as something you can add to a collection, and I see digital music as the modern day cassettes - a handy way to listen to music but ultimately of little value. SO I often buy CDs of things I start off with on mp3 but most of the CDs I buy are things I cannot get digitally or that are much cheaper to buy on somewhere like Discogs.

[whyterabbyt]

Are you buying vinyl again?

yes. but only BBC sound effects.

[vurt]

Are you buying vinyl again?

yes. but only BBC sound effects.

do you have "the jo whiley hihat"?

[whyterabbyt]

Are you buying vinyl again?

yes. but only BBC sound effects.

do you have "the jo whiley hihat"?

is that on 'more death and horror vol 4" ?

[Dasheesh]

i don't have the space for records rn, and all my spare funds go to making my own music, and travel, but.... one day i will return. i have a lot of records i cannot listen to rn. i even have the tables... just no space for it.