Thinking About Buying a Turntable and Vinyl Records

asp3 said:
Vinyl only allows you to listen to 30 minutes at most of uninterrupted music before having to turn the record over.
Vinyl takes up much more physical space than digital media.
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You only get thirty minutes before you turn the record over, really? Mine can play both sides.
Can't really argue about your second point.
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Gaer said:
Yes, I did! I still have 300 records from the old days (all my favorites that i hid under the bed when my first husband threw out all my boxes of 45's. I had a wonderful old turntable (still have it) but I was unable to find the correct needle for it. So I just bought another one on line (E-Bay). I't WONDERFUL! Belt-driven, solid state. It's old but THE SOUND is amazing! When you play music on line, Yes, It's fine but it still has the "tinny" electronic sound. But the old turntables; 'OH YEAH!" Nothing like it!
I play it, honestly? EVERYDAY!Dance around my house with my dog , sing along.
JimBob? DO IT! You won't be sorry!
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Gaer, I have to ask this but you hid you 45s under your bed fearing your husband would throw them out?!
 
I still have my Technics turntable that I bought in the late '70s. It does sound a lot warmer than CDs. I hardly ever listen to music anymore, though, and when I do, it's usually concert videos.
 
asp3 said:
Agreed. Does your jukebox take albums or just 7" singles? That significantly reduces the number of songs you can play overall. Even with albums there is a lot of music that has never been released on vinyl.
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Yes it does only take singles, one hundred, so taking both sides it can play approximately ten hours non stop without repeating.
I do have a large collection of seventy eights on records made from shallac, there are juke boxes that play such records but rather than a houseful of jukeboxes, I blew my hard earned cash on frivolity such as vintage cars, attire and accoutrements and so much more.
 
horseless carriage said:
Yes it does only take singles, one hundred, so taking both sides it can play approximately ten hours non stop without repeating.
I do have a large collection of seventy eights on records made from shallac, there are juke boxes that play such records but rather than a houseful of jukeboxes, I blew my hard earned cash on frivolity such as vintage cars, attire and accoutrements and so much more.
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I had a friend who was really into Packards.
 
...still have a turntable, and assorted amplifiers & receivers... (in long term storage).
Still have parts of the record & CD collection... (in long term storage).
The, most recent, speakers became part of the entertainment center and are primarily used while viewing movies... (serious listening went away when my hearing started degrading).
The CDs and some of the vinyl records were transferred to hard drive, then to the smart phone (memory card) to allow tunes while camping and during road trips via Bluetooth.

CDs were the best now downloadable music is easier + cheaper.

I really do not miss cleaning the Vinyl records before playing them nor the fact that they degrade with each playing (inspite of rather large expenditures on equipment)... I do kind of miss the great sound of good tube amplifiers which my ears can no longer hear (due to age and industrial abuse).

Enjoy!
 
asp3 said:
Although I do agree that the sound of vinyl is warmer than digital recordings there are several things that make me want not to do this.

1. The sound of vinyl also includes, clicks, pops and other sounds caused by vinyl imprefection.
2. Vinyl is easily damaged
3. Vinyl is very expensive these days
4. Vinyl only allows you to listen to 30 minutes at most of uninterrupted music before having to turn the record over
5. Vinyl takes up much more physical space than digital media

Although it's far from perfect the quality of digital recordings is good enough for my everyday listening.
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There's record players and there's record players. What was that about thirty minutes?
 
This might sound like heresy to some here, but here goes...

I listen almost exclusively to MP3s these days. Why? It is the convenience. I have a lot of CDs, and I ripped them to MP3. I can store thousands of these on my smart phone and I just bought a nice set of Sennheiser Momentum 2 true wireless earbuds. This is currently the ultimate in convenience. Also, I can slow down the MP3s without changing pitch and loop small sections of these using the Amazing Slowdowner app on my smart phone to learn tunes by ear.

My ears are aging and I know that I can't hear nearly as well as I could when I was younger and had a decent quality component stereo system with a modified Dynaco Stereo 70 tube power amp, McIntosh preamp, nice turntable, and DCM Time Window speakers. For me, MP3s are good enough. I think that if I were in my 20s or 30s right now, I would probably share the sentiments of those preferring vinyl or even CDs because I can't technically argue with their superiority for obvious reasons (for those who understand what MP3 files really are).

Funny thing, as I get older, convenience becomes a much higher priority than it was years ago. :)

I suppose next I will want one of those easy chairs that sets me back on my feet when I want to get out of it and a hired nurse to put me in it. :unsure:

Tony
 
horseless carriage said:
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There's record players and there's record players. What was that about thirty minutes?
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Although your time limit isn't as low on a jukebox as it is for standard albums your selection of music to be able to play is a small fraction of what's available on LPs or digital media. I'm not aware of any jukeboxes which play LPs but there may be some. However they'd still have the top three problems I listed and the fifth is exacerbated by the size of the "record player."
 
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