Does Anyone Listen To Vinyl?

[ancient-one]

I have a bunch. Bob Wills, Hank Thompson, Chet Atkins and other Country types. Also Glenn Miller, Woody Herman, Glen Gray, Tommy Dorsey, Guy Lombardo and others of this type. Lots of misc.

 

[CW Spook]

So where are vinyl produced these days?

Blue Note & Mobile Fidelity to name a couple. Several other outfits doing new pressings too.

Classical Vinyl | Classical Vinyl Records | Classical Vinyl Albums | SoundStage Direct

 

[tom turner]

My rig . . . back "in the day:"

Audire Diffet 1 pre-amp
Bryston 2b Power Amp
Audire Model 2 Power Amp
original series Kef 105 Reference Speakers, bi-amped: Bryston 2b on mids and highs, Audire M2 on woofers

Audire Crescendo Power Amp - second room, into
Kef 101 Loudspeakers (ala Rogers LS5)

Kenwood KD-500 Turntable with "Platter Pad" and AT insulator feet
Grace 707 mkII tonearm with custom, silver wire tonearm to pre-amp cable
Adcom moving coil cartridge

Nakamichi 550 Cassette deck (finally gave out)
Advent 201A Cassette deck (from 1975. Lasted over 25 years)
Yamaha 1000 Cassette deck (still works, but who uses cassettes?)
Kenwood 600T tuner (gone now)

I have, I believe, all the Sheffield Lab direct-to-disc records
Most original series Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs audiophile discs
The Gale audiophile records
Crystal Clear audiophile records
. . . and about 50 more audiophile records from all the makers back in the late '70s . . . all carefully played via that incredibly quiet Grace 707 mk II tonearm.

 

[chicagoslim]

I'm a musician and I collect Rockabilly music, in all formats (vinyl, CD, DVD, digital). Most of my Elvis, Carl Perkins and Eddie Cochran collection is in vinyl. I also have old '50's rock & roll movies, tranferred to DVD.

I currently have three working turn tables, from a JVC with memory and a lazer to read tracks, to a Crosley all-in-one unit. Last week, I threwout my dual well casette deck, with variable speed, for adjusting pitch. It was a great deck, but I hadn't used it in the past five years.

 

[mike from st pete]

I do, but not with all the AudioPhile stuff you all have. Some of my favorite music will never be re-released in a digital format.
They didn't call me "Bottom 40 Mike" for nothing.

 

[hank 33]

I have close to 100 lps,and 2 turn tables that work. Also have 30ish 8 tracks with 2 working players

 

[pete-driver]

Every Christmas eve we listen to White Christmas and Jingle Bells on my Uncles Edison.

 

[s1mp13m4n]

Things are quiet in the apartment today. I just listened to The who Greatest Hits. I am now listening to Billy Joel Greatest Hits Vol. 1. Sure you could crank up the iPod, but there is something about the sound of vinyl. The Henry Kloss designed speakers are sounding nice right about now.

 

[photocosmo]

By most accounts it is generally agreed that vinyl is superior to digital media in many ways. I still rock the same PE/Shure turntable combo I've had forever BUT I do enjoy CDs, MP3s, etc. AND I even bought one of those turntables that will connect to a computer and covert any LP into a digital file that can now be played ANYWHERE. It ain't perfect but how else am I gonna listen to "Are You Ready?" by "Pacific, Gas and Electric" while I wait in line to buy some .45ACP at WalMart?

 

[Alnamvet68]

I do, on my pristine Throrens TD 125 MK II turntable, as well as listen to cassetes through my Nakamichi 1000 cassette deck, and my G.A.S Ampzilla amp, G.A.S. Thalia pre-amp, Marantz 150 tuner, and ADS 710 speakers. Any other questions?

 

[BobC357]

Listen to vinyl? YES! All the time. In fact I still buy the new 180 gram vinyl (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's album Will The Circle Be Unbroken is being released as a 3 LP boxed set for their 40th anniversary now).

They still make quality turntables and there are shops restoring the vintage audio that sounds far superior than today's mass-produced stuff. Old power was measured different than today's method so the old really does have more power resulting in much better sound.

The Vinyl and Vintage audio world is alive and well.

 

[FishingPilot]

I purchased some equipment to convert my vinyl to digital. After trying a few, it just didn't have the same sound. Sound I connected it to the stereo and just play vinyl when i want to hear some big band or classical. Got a few oddball vinyls from my youth as well but nothing i care to mention on here......

 

[s1mp13m4n]

My vinyl setup is budget but it sounds nicer than my Onkyo CD player. I am using a Technics SL-5 direct drive linear turntable made in 1982 and in Japan. When I got it the stock p mount cartridge was there but no stylus. I put a $20 Audio Technica AT92E cartridge in it. If I use the turntable more I may put a $50-$100 cartridge in it. It is not often that I can just be alone and listen in quiet where you can listen to the music without child or being disturbed.

 

[labworm]

Listening to vinyl and Rice Krispies just have that sound.

 

[kozmic]

I have my ancient (but just getting broken in) stereo in my den. Heathkit Monoblock amps that I built 34 years ago, SAE preamp, Brazilian rosewood B&W DM14 Speakers and my beloved Oracle turntable with AT cartridge.
I usually enjoy some old school jazz fusion vinyl on it. Resent plays have been; Weather Report, Chic Corea, Paco De Luca, Billy Cobham, Della Reese, Yellow Jackets.......Absolutely like "sweet tea" for the ears!

 

[rwsmith]

I need a turntable

My wife and daughter went to the library today to exchange books for more books while I stayed home for the quiet. I decided to listen to some of my vinyl and while doing so clean some of it as well. I listened to Billy Joel's Greatest Hits and the Footloose Soundtrack and finally the two LP score of Star Wars. I enjoyed it very much. I do not use vinyl as my main form of music listening but rather as a treat when I can sit back and enjoy it without noise of distraction. I prefer how it sounds over modern compressed music such as Mp3 or even Cds. I am using a 1982 Technics direct drive linear turntable with an Audio Technica P Mount cartridge. This turntable was from the era when they were made in Japan rather than the made in China models of today.

My last turntable was a Technics that had I known what I was doing could have fixed it easily but nooooo. Now it's junk.
I've got plenty of vinyl I need to switch to digital.

 

[nostraDONus]

Back in the 70's I would spend a good portion of my paycheck on vinyl at Believe In Music here in Grand Rapids. As a result I have over 1200 albums from the 60's to early 80's on shelves in the basement. My McIntosh system with Philips turntable still sounds better than anything else I have found. Genesis "Los Endos" from A Trick Of The Tail still loosens up the plaster in this old house.

Still love vinyl, although digital media and my IPod get considerable use as well.

 

[Cyrano]

I have about a thee foot stack of vinyl. Gotta play with the turntable so the arm doesn't skate after moving it. Some of mine go back to 1964 and are mono.

My hearing is so bad I probably can't tell the difference between great sound and just good sound. Enjoyed the sound of too many 45 ACPs and 30-06s, not to exclude the sound of a few 105s when I was in training.

 

[Vectorxw8]

I recently listened to The Best of the Seekers and Cyndi Laupers first Album. Got a lot of Henry Mancini and John Barry as well as a large stack of classical.
I use a Denon turntable with a Shure cartridge.

It was actually Emerson, Lake & Palmer that got me in to classical music. When I was living in Cleveland, Ohio I went to see the Cleveland Orchestra play as often as I could. I for years would get "Dress Circle" tickets, rent a tux and went to the Christmas concert with the lady of the week back then. Wonderful music. Scott

 

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