vinyl records are making a comeback

[alocispepraluger102]

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: My link

[Shawn]

Cool story.

[David Ayers]

Yay. I wonder if CDs will ever make a similar comeback?

[A Lark Ascending]

I'm waiting for the Big Bands.

This story seems to reappear every couple of months. Won't be long before you'll be able to find second hand record shops in places like Stow-on-the-Wold and Hay-on-Wye.

Edited May 18, 2012 by A Lark Ascending

[BillF]

I'm waiting for the Big Bands.

Wait no longer!

[sonnymax]

Bring back in-car record players, then we'll talk.

[alocispepraluger102]

i want to see cassettes come back. nothing better than a tape coming unwound and trying to reel it back in using a pencil through one of the center gears, maybe if you were brave enough opening the cassette up and trying to piece it back together. anyone remember doing that?

[A Lark Ascending]

I still pine for the sound of the distorted grooves at the start of side 4 of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 2 where I'd sellotaped too many pennies to the cartridge to keep the stylus in the groove.

You don't get that analogue sound with downloads.

[cih]

i want to see cassettes come back. nothing better than a tape coming unwound and trying to reel it back in using a pencil through one of the center gears, maybe if you were brave enough opening the cassette up and trying to piece it back together. anyone remember doing that?

yep - and I miss the sight of a discarded cassette in the gutter, its entrails spilling out all over the road. With digital there's no danger of a passing hedgehog perishing in a cat's cradle of mangled John Peel shows

[sidewinder]

Won't be long before you'll be able to find second hand record shops in places like Stow-on-the-Wold and Hay-on-Wye.

Didn't you hear about the new jazz vinyl emporium in Moreton-In-The Marsh?

[A Lark Ascending]

Won't be long before you'll be able to find second hand record shops in places like Stow-on-the-Wold and Hay-on-Wye.

Didn't you hear about the new jazz vinyl emporium in Moreton-In-The Marsh?

Lots of grumbling about downloads there.

Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh

[rostasi]

i want to see cassettes come back. nothing better than a tape coming unwound and trying to reel it back in using a pencil through one of the center gears, maybe if you were brave enough opening the cassette up and trying to piece it back together. anyone remember doing that?

Yes! Actually, I'm doing that right now with a friend's tape sent from Norway.

Mangled bits of old performances, carefully reconstructed,

them transferred to disc with both being sent back to him.

[Shawn]

All joking aside, I think an actual physical format with increasing sales is a good sign.

The main reason i started going back to LPs was to avoid the horrible compression used on many modern CD masterings, even new recordings are often much less compressed on LP than their CD counterparts. At this moment in time I either buy blu-rays, hi-rez downloads (HDtracks) or LPs.

Edited May 19, 2012 by Shawn

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Encouraging story