Have you joined the vinyl records revival?

I still listen to vinyl records, most of which were bought in the 80s. There is something more satisfying about a record than a CD or a download, though I moved to CDs when they became cheaper. As I write, I’m listening to Brahms Piano Concerto No.2/Ashkenazy. Excuse me while I turn over the record to listen to the third movement. 🙁

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We still have a large collection of vinyls and luckily a good hi-fi system to play them on. I suppose it does look a bit old-fashioned now but it was bought in the days when stuff lasted …….

Many got transferred to cassettes for playing in the car and are long obsolete but still around somewhere and will follow the VHS tapes to the tip at some stage.

We always intended to copy them to CD but never got around to it as we never quite had the setup for it but most favourites have already been rebought on CD and given as birthday presents.

We haven’t needed to progress beyond CDs yet……….

I have not bought a CD in years. There is no reason now, as if you buy vinyl then the majority of them come with a digital download card. You are getting best of both worlds, vinyl for the house and the download for the car or when outside.
I originally bought vinyl when i was a kid as you couldnt get CD’s. When CD’s appeared I was all over them as I thought this new digital audio was the bees knees. After quite a few years of being disappointed with the audio quality of CD playback I ventured into the vinyl world again and haven’t looked back. It is a great time to be listening to vinyl again as the sleeves are of excellent quality now. Still I think the vinyl pressings could be better on some new records as some vinyl I have from the 70’s has far superior sound quality.

I don’t agree with what Which has stated in the above about the slight fuzz on bass frequencies. You shouldnt get that if you have your system setup properly.
We have to remember that as human beings we hear audio in analogue, so if you can get a vinyl record that has been recorded in analogue all the way then its not like listening to a recorded piece, it sounds ‘live’.

Vinyl do you mean LP’S ? .Well I have about 300 of them dating back to the fifties. I was and am a jazz buff who also likes a great deal of classical music and the music of the so called Great American Songbook you’ll probably guess I am no spring chicken. I purchased my first LP SORRY VINYL in about 1954 it was a 10 inch album very thick vinyl but for the time very good sound. And then came the avalanche of 12 inch albums often in beautiful packaging many became iconic because of the superb music and wonderful photography that was part of the product. Many still are iconic and original albums can fetch a very decent price. There is an old saying what comes round comes round and apropos the vinyl surge it seems to be true. I purchased my last vinyl in about 2009 it was part of a luxury boxed set celebrating one of the greatest jazz albums of all time Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue. It came with with 2 CD’S a DVD LOTS OF ARTWORK AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SESSIONS AN ILLUSTRATED BOOK AND A BEAUTIFUL DEEP BLUE VINYL RECORD OF THE ORIGINAL RECORDING. The sound of the vinyl was stunning more than a match for the CD that was part of the set. However I do have some very expensive turntable equipment far beyond the price of the recent Which best buy. Am I now going back to vinyl and spending silly money on new disks ? The answer is no. The point is I like music there are so many ways of listening to music best of all real live music. CD’S are hardly state of the art music technology these days but for me technologically speaking they will suffice. However for those of you who are intrigued and interested in try vinyl you will get a beautiful tactile object that can have stunning cover designs and very learned notes with them. But again oh those prices. Speaking of prices you really do need to spend the sort of money that was the Which Best Buy turntable. Oh by the way the WHICH best buy was BRITISH MADE NOW THAT’S NICE. Enjoy your music

I often put on youtube, via the television or computer, in order to entertain when on caring duty. Fortunately I can play Bach or Mozart without any protest and so get to hear some pleasant music in between Bing and Nat King Cole. The point of this comment is that the television sound is not hi fi, but the music speaks for itself and can still be enjoyed. When alone, I can use my “posh” reproducer and listen to everything that my CD’s have within them. This too is an enjoyable experience. For me the CD was the first occasion, in a life of collecting music , when I could play something without any extraneous noise from the reproducing system or the record/tape. Some early CDs were a shade metalic but this soon improved and I haven’t wanted to listen to anything better than a CD. I can tell the difference between the CD and the MP3 and to a lesser extent beween CD and Mini Disc, though, in isolation, both of these make pleasant listening as does the £400 Sony system in the kitchen. It is the music, and the way it is played, that matters provided there’s more fidelity than a wasp trapped in a tin can. I have spent quite a lot of money on equipment and am satisfied with what I’ve got. Someone else will spend a great deal more to gain that satisfaction, others are happy to bop along to an i phone and headphones or a stereo from the supermarket. Thus the difference between analogue and digital is a personal preference and my vote goes to the CD, which I can hold in the hand and not something that exists somewhere on a hard drive or a cloud. I do have eleven days of music in the car on an i pod, but iTunes drives me nuts. Symphonic movements are “songs” and it decides which order to store my CD tracks in all by itself, leaving me to sort out the mess. I have managed to buy about eighty percent of my old vinyl recordings again on CD and, of course, since the eighties there have been a huge number of very talented musicians who have made memorable recordings which I also cherish. The sad thing is that though I love my collection, there are many of them that will never be played again – but it is nice to dip and rediscover old friends.