I Changed My Mind About Vinyl, Here's Why. 

The main difference I find with vinyl over digital is the way you listen to albums. It is far more likely that you will listen to a record from start to finish than when you are listening on a digital medium. It is very easy to just skip tracks digitally but if you have to get up and lift the arm and move it each time you probably won't bother. The result is that some tracks, which initially may not grab you, start to grow on you in a way that you would never discover when streaming or listening to IPods or CDs.

Physical media makes you appreciate an album as a whole way more than streaming can. Putting on a record is like going to a concert

Vinyl albums had a great consumer experience. Browsing through the racks, the big artwork, double LPs with inserts, getting stoned ,reading the lyrics & sharing the hidden meanings with your friends, an actual physical object that was encased in what was often a work of art in its own right.

I'm 77 and have been collecting vinyl records since 1965 and have a large collection of 45 and 33 1/3 rpms. About three years ago I learned to clean and maintain my collection by using wood glue. The wood glue cleans the grooves very good. The static is almost removed more than 98 to 99 per cent. The vinyl recordings sound wonderful. Hoorah.

I'm 61 and have been collecting records since the age of 13 so I am definitely biased. I have always preferred the sound of vinyl, yes it may be dynamically inferior technically, but it's the overall warmness of the sound that I love. I work from home a couple of times a week and for a couple of years during the lockdown and play music all day whilst working. Vinyl is the only format that doesn't make my ears tired by the end of the day. CDs and streaming get very shrill and exhausting after eight hours or so, but my records just keep spinning and spinning. There is also the pleasure of going out record shopping and finding new albums to add to the collection, that thrill has never left me. Then there is the whole ritual of maintaining your equipment and the whole process of playing a record, you can't beat that for me. I agree that modern records can sound awful - they look very appealing with all the fancy colour variations but a lot of them are sloppy digital transfers. Vinyl mastering is an art itself and a lot of labels just don't bother - although they charge a premium price for their product; and that is getting out of hand. I'm not sure what I would think of vinyl if I was a youngster today, so I'm glad I'm older and have so many vintage records that sound amazing to me. Great video. Happy New Year.

The Vinyl experience is very different , ex: Artists were known to strategically place songs in specific order Side 1 or Side 2 , The listener may have a tendency to listen to a full side rather than getting up and physically changing songs. This allows a chance to discover a wider appreciation of the artist / album .. IMO

It is also nice to support the artists as well.

I would say the thing that makes some records sound better than digital files is the way they are mastered. The same song sounds different on each format it is released on because you need to master a song to conform to the cutting head of the record or master the MP3 to sound good on ear buds.

It’s worth bearing in mind that vinyl really shines at a higher budget. Digital can be achieved to great effect at a much lower price point. When you get to mid/high end vinyl playback with a decent phono preamp and MC cart, I believe it can often sound better depending on release. Some releases though sound better digitally and some sound better on vinyl anyway. You can’t spend say 500 bucks on a system and expect the vinyl to outperform the digital imo…the costs are far greater and also to manufacture.

I think it is all about making music a hobby. I like records, cd and streaming they all have their place. Physical media is just more enjoyable than pushing a play icon on your phone.

Careful going down the audiophile rabbit hole, you'll end up listening to the equipment instead of the music! I grew up with vinyls and cassette tapes, and I ended up hating vinyls with a passion because of my own ignorance on how to take care of it. CDs were also a godsend to me, the clarity of sound, no noise, no nonsense, BUT shortly after, the hi fi industry started to change for the worst so as the music industry to the point I was no longer able to listen to music for longer periods of time due to ear fatigue. The newer equipments sounded like crap because they were aimed for casual consumers and music trends. So I got back to Vinyl because one day I was walking by a record store, decided to look in, check the records to see if I find one to decorate my room, so I picked one and the owner offered to test the record on his modest equipment and suffice to say, I was blown away! I felt like finding something I lost so many years ago, a real connection to music through the warmth of sound. Dynamic range doesn't matter because we only can hear some frequencies, and our senses can be oversaturated with excess info, which is where I see the problem resides with modern digital formats and equipment's for streaming, headphones, portable devices. You lose a whole world of sound. Less is more. Also, listening to music became something so casual, so disconnected to the art form. Vinyl and analogue showed us why art and music are so great in the first place.

Nice video. One of the greatest things about vinyl is how much it financially benefits the artists versus streaming.

Old timer here. There was something with vinyl. I remember going down to my favorite record shop, Sam the Record Man, for those who might have known that store. I got to talk to the employees who were quite knowledgeable, then it was perusing through the LP's, something I could spend an afternoon doing. Then buying one, two or more records. When I got home I got to sit down, look at the covers, back and front, opening one, taking the record out and putting it on my turntable. While listening, I was checking out the insert where you had additional art, lyrics and such. For my money I had something real and tangible in my hand that I could replay for as many times as I wanted, something you don't get with streaming. The magical thing is that after all these years I still have my LP's. If anything, I can now buy new copies made on 180 grams (or more) of pure vinyl. Trivia: During the oil crisis of the 70's record companies would melt down unsold records in order to make new ones. They were thin and didn't sound all that good.

Vinyl sound is the real sound. Yes digital media sounds clearer etc. but it’s not what the musician intended it. Dig!

You need a better cartridge for sure. You will be amazed at the difference. I have audiophile records that I love and I often also get the hi-res downloads for more convenient listening.

I like my vinyl, they sound good with my setup. The feeling of changing sides is cool. You listen to everything.

I love flipping through records and finding what I want. I d*ck around with my phone, etc all the time. Music is important to me and sometimes when I stream I feel like I'm just scrolling through netflix or youtube reels. It's nice to use streaming as a way to discover new music for sure. It's wonderful to be able to put that down and just enjoy.

Vinyl is something that you can collect and years later if you decide you want to sell it, you can. Try that with streaming or digital.

Great video, also I noticed all the Khemmis vinyl and your shirt and checked them out, now I'm a fan! So thanks for helping me find a new awesome band!

Probably one of the best sounding vinyl albums for me is Supertramp - Breakfast In America from 1979. There's so much dynamics in that recording.

Here's the way I see it: There's no particular reason to listen to records, but it's fun! It makes me feel good to do! The big cardboard sleve, colorful plastic discs, watching it spin, it' great! I have a $400 Digital Music player with a quad-DAC that sounds probably as good as my records, but man if you only ever did things out of necessity, what a boring life you'd lead. I also love CDs and Cassettes, each for their own reasons. I hope to add a Minidisc player to my hi-fi someday.

I am happy that you are exploring the great world of vinyl. If you upgrade to a better quality turntable ( even a Rega), you will discover even greater musicality of your vinyl records.

Nice! I think one aspect that's underappreciated is being able to listen to more vintage samples the way they would have been listened to and they're originally made, '60s for example. It's not like someone has a vintage photo of New York City and you say "why would I want to look at that, I could just look up what it looks like today" horrible analogy but whatever lol

I’m obsessed with Celebrity Therapist, one of my top 5 albums of 2022, its truly amazing to know theres someone also into HiFi gear who love this kind of music

My journey with vinyl and hi-fi audio has drastically shifted over the years. I came into the hobby just before the big waves of hype and resurgence, and my only sources of information I listened to at the time were the various vinyl-centric channels here on RU-vid. I didn't have a lot of exposure to the broader hi-fi and audiophile community, so I completely bought into the misconceptions of vinyl being superior in every way possible and analog music being objectively better to digital. So I've grown to actually understand a lot of the actual science and the tech behind hi-fidelity audio and have a different relationship with my collection of a couple hundred records. I now listen to them more as a way to physically engage with my collection and purposefully take time out of my day to just listen to the music and not distract myself from experiencing it. And it's actually really fun to have different cartridges and different amps to play around with the tone and timbre of the music. It lets you experience the music in a more personal and colorful way than just listening to the clean and well mastered digital tracks.

For me it was my 4 years old girl that I love so much. I want her to hold music in her hands and have this experience that I know she will remember forever. I cant play anything so for me a turntable is a music instrument.

Most modern vinyl isn't mastered for the limitations of the format. This is why new vinyl usually sounds worse than the digital version. It's basically the digital mix stamped onto a piece of plastic and it just doesn't work. Some artists do take the time to make different mixes for different formats. The vinyl version of Daft Punk's "Random Access Memories" was given different mastering than the CD and the FLAC versions and sounds amazing. "An Evening With Silk Sonic" is also killer on vinyl. Not sure if it got a separate mastering though.

Ego surge, 100% I feel so special with each copy, especially when you're hunting for the best copies out there, it's such an addictive side to it. Hunting for original copies of 60s records, hunting for those limited editions, audiophile versions, it's so much fun!

Vinyl mastering (and pressing!) is an artform in its own right. For someone who grew up listening to digital formats, hearing familiar songs on vinyl might be an eye opener to how much the "loudness war" has really affected mastering and the overall sound, since the limitations of vinyl requires a different approach to mixing/mastering. For me, what I like about vinyl is how it forces me to focus on the music. It's like a ritual to pick out a record and put it on. A welcomed break from the digital noise. It's a conscious effort that establishes an emotional and personal value to the music. Plus I love knowing that my vinyls will still be playable after the solar storms finally hit earth and erased all digital information from all digital media on the planet. ;)

Unless you’re like me. I have a decent home hifi stereo set up I’m happy with using digital sources. I went into Vinyl thinking it was a great hobby to regain my love of music that had escaped me the last few years. During the pandemic, many artists were releasing and re-releasing vinyl albums and along with my increased use of Bandcamp, found that purchasing a CD or vinyl copy of an album on the site also included downloads and streaming for sometimes only a few bucks more than just the digital version. So, I accumulated some new vinyl, helped fund some artists and bought a good turntable, only to find out that my home’s AC power is ultra dirty and neighborhood is poisoned with RF noise. I tried everything to minimize or get rid of the interference that is ruining my vinyl playback experience to no avail. So back burner the idea went.

I only have digital but when I want that authentic vinyl sound I pour milk on Rice Krispies 😜

I've always hated vinyl records, even when I was a kid, that is why I tried to make a tape recorder in the fourth grade, I didn't succeed obviously, but at least I tried! The ticks, and pops, plus surface noise, and the eccentricity of vinyl records drove me (when I had enough money), to purchase a used teak A1500U, reel-to-reel tape recorder, but I could easily still hear the difference between "source and tape", the dreaded tape hiss. In 1978 as an engineering consultant for the "Great American Sound Co., I traveled to Japan to visit GAS dealers and the Tokyo Electronics Show. In the Sony booth at that show, I saw for the first time, a model PCM-1, 12-bit digital processor playing music from the video track displaying thousands of black and white, undulating bits on the monitor, from the same SL-8200 Beta max VCR I had at home, I had to own one of these! In 1983 I attended an AES meeting featuring Marshall Buck who was presenting his new "coaxial two-way" loudspeaker he had designed for Cerwin-Vega! In his demonstration he was utilizing a "vocal-only" recording of a female singer that sounded fantastic with an incredible "dynamic range" and no background hiss. Immediately after Marshall's demonstration, I walked up and asked him what equipment was playing back his recording of this singer? He pointed to this diminutive silver box, and said I'm using a Sony PCM-F1, 16-bit Digital Audio Processor and a VCR. I said how much for the PCM-F1. He said $1,500.00, and I said sold! I built a portable recording rig that included the PCM-F1 and other custom-made equipment that I utilized for various musical performance recordings made on location and I won an Emmy for an outdoor performance of the opera Faust! I've been a digital advocate ever since, if you wish to learn more about my current endeavors, search RU-vid with the following: "JBL SYNTHESIS CREATOR", and ALSO: "HOWTOHOMELIFE". If you have questions, feel-free to call me @ 818-314-7275 Pacific time. David Riddle

The first time I heard Come Together by the Beatles on Vinyl, I was sold. I have tons of CDs and a decent amount of vinyl and just enjoy listening to music these days. What a concept!

As far as a good turntable/cartridge upgrade goes, I think for you an Ortofon 2M Blue cartridge would probably be a great upgrade for you and keep your turntable if it's working the way it's supposed to.

In the 70s, album vinyl only came in one color, black...I always loved the noise on vinyl...it enhances the experience to me...and the album cover makes a great rolling tray...but I grew up in the vinyl era...also 8 tracks...I still have some 8 track tapes too...now that was a wierd format...my least favorite, especially when it changed tracks in the middle of a song...you're song faded out, you hear 'KA-CHUNK' & then the song fades back in...Lol! but when it became obsolete, it was cool that I still had an 8 track player in my El Camino because it was not only different, but nobody wanted to steal my stereo because it was practically worthless! Lol!

5:18 You place the brush gently and without pressure across the record as you did, you let it do its job (attracts dust) and then you just pick it up. Don't swipe because the lateral move can create friction from the moving bristles and probably make scratches to the grooves

I'm 65 years old and I collect music in all formats. I presently have around 1500 CDs, around 1100, vinyl records and I also collect movies, Rock concerts and Rock documentaries. I have around 1200 movies on DVD and Blu-ray. Of those 1200 about 120 of them are nothing but Rock concerts and Rock documentaries. I also collect reel to reel tapes. I have a Pioneer RT-1020L reel to reel tape deck connect to a Yamaha 7.2 A/V receiver and also connect is a Music Hall turntable and two Tascam CD player/recorders. My speaker source is a Klipsch 7.1 surround sound system.

there is something more organic, wholesome, about spinning a record. and, I have cassette tapes that have deteriorated, and cds that won't play for a list of unknown reasons, but records, even ones I have from the 60's? Yup, still play. superior (with caveats that you need to take care of your collection)

I have REALLY gotten into vinyl over the past few years. It's an amazingly rewarding hobby :)

The best sound format is reel to reel analog tape and it is expensive to buy the pre recorded high quality record label tapes along with a good reel deck that can be expensive as well .Anything analog has to be heavily thought about the quality of every component and the link of it ,..Turntable quality can vary a whole lot and the cartridge being used and the shape the stylus is, the amp and the speakers and the quality of the wires all in all have to be totally in sync to achieve the best sound .

The vinyl I got into, were ones I grew up with, including heavy metal.

heres a valuable thing to know, if the album was recorded digitally with modern tools, buy it on cd or stream it. if its recorded analog/old school tape machines, buy the vinyl

I wonder how many people sit down in their living room and just listen to music these days. I went a long time without playing my records, but since I got back into vinyl I'll sit and listen to an album or two at least once a day. Prior to that I tended to just listen in the car or on the train or, maybe sometimes just as background ambience. I can't say I ever sat and listened to an album on my iPod or my Rio in the house. Maybe it's because the TV dominated my time at home and now I'm retired I have more time to be discerning. For whatever reason, it is something I missed but I didn't really realise how much until I started doing it again.

I used to listen to vinyl on my TV at max volume just to barely hear it until I hear of preamps, then I could listen to it on the TV at normal volume lol. I miss not knowing anything.

Sweet shirt. I had Court of the Dragon on vinyl. It does sound better than the first download I had of it. The digital was super compressed.

Best thing you can do is update that cartridge. There are many great cartridges on the market. My old Dual 1229 got a new Ortofon 2m blue for just over 2 hundred. It was like a brand new player. Good luck

Vinyl has a much better sound especially with electronic music. The lows just have a richer sound that digital can't do

The Pickering XSV3000 is a fantastic moving magnet cart, though I would question running a 40+ yo stylus on it for sure as it is likely worn past its usable life by now and could potentially cause record ware if it is worn enough. Id probably recommend getting a good replacement stylus for it as with a good stylus they will easily outperform anything on the medium range of moving magnet carts sold today. Though Its also worth trying out different carts, as they all sound a bit different to find one you really like the sound of, all part of the never ending vinyl rabbit hole.

I think that vinyl you are holding was digitally recorded and pressed to vinyl. So you are listening to a digital recording on vinyl. You have to have an all analog process AAA. Recorded in analog, mixed with analog, played with analog?

Congratulations on finding out the magic of vinyl. 🥳💥⭐️ I’ve got a nice digital set up in my system, but I’ve also been listening to vinyl for 30+ yrs. I listen to both, but primarily vinyl 90%+ of the time. YourPickering XSV 3000 is a great cartridge. It’s better than many introductory carts You may just want to replace the stylus, but there are still quality replacement styli available from companies like JICO or LP Gear (who carries JICO). Also properly setting up your turntable may be the issue also. The platter and plinth need to be perfectly level to get a proper reading on your vertical tracking force (VTF), otherwise known the downward pressure of the stylus. A digital VTF gauge for under $10 may be worth adding to your arsenal as well as a small circular bubble level for $5 or so on eBay. Again, congrats on your dive into vinyl! Best of luck to you in the new year! 👍🔊🎶⭐️😊

Seeing the album without a protective sleeve, and being handled, made me wince, not gonna lie

Stay with me here, it’s kind of like a Gibson Les Paul vs and Epiphone or a Les Paul copy you can tell which when you listen to them. The Gibson Les Paul has a warmth that the others don’t. Like with digital amp modeling vs a tube amplifier, again there is an organic warmth to those analog tubes. Same with CD’S and vinyl, for me it’s the warmth of vinyl especially older records that were analog recorded.

True. Cart change, preamp change, all makes a different sound.

I have been buying vinyl records since I was 7 and I'm 60 in a week, a relatively new difference to buying vinyl happened around 10 years ago, this is actually doing vinyl down because it is spoiling the point "or at least one of them" of having vinyl. The albums which were released on CD only, but then they started to release them on vinyl, but it seems they are trying to make up for this by making it a double album, not more music no, same number of tracks but only two or three per side, so now we have a situation where you get maybe 12 minutes of music and you have to get up and turn the record over or put on side three which is even shorter because you can only get "on a properly recorded album" 42 minutes usually, but now you have double the space to put your 42 minutes of music on to, on these occasions I have CD or record the album to minidisc, the sensible artists have side 4 etched so there is a more sensible amount of music on each side, but this is expensive to do for smaller artists. Have fun enjoying your music and rediscovering the music you love :)

Don't get to caught up in the audiophile disease. People love vinyl not because of quality but because it's more entertaining. People forget music is about entertainment. If you go down the equipment upgrade route you will never be satisfied, you will always be chasing a better sound. Learn to love what you have, be humbled by the music and allow yourself be entertained. Free up some space to dance. Get rid of the listening chair positioned equally between the speakers and push those speakers back up against the wall again. Music is supposed to move you.... not make you sit down and concentrate over nuances. Music should free your mind and body not turn you into an audio nerd.... so drop the needle on your favorite disk and just let it work it's magic... Or.... you may as well just stay digital and suffer analysis paralysis.

The problem I still have with vinyl is quality control. I have a decent Sony turntable and recently bought the Olivia Newton John Greatest Hits - Deluxe colored 2 LP vinyl (Target Exclusive). On the first play, there were pops all over the damn place. I bought it as a collectors item, so I will never play the vinyl again, but that convinced me to stick to CDs for the most part.

Simply(or not simply), subjective arguments aside, its the the total immersive experience that vinyl gives you that attracts vinyl users, The best mastered CD will always sound better and perform better than the best mastered vinyl. You get to go to a store, sift through different albums, look them over, bring them home, open them up, go over the material, go through the process of placing a record on the platter, give it a clean, and start to spin. Then you can kick back and peruse the jacket and sleeves, and any other content at your leisure! Now tell me what other media gives you that? The Pickering cartridge is an excellent cartridge. Look into replacing the stylus. The cartridge itself doesn't where out, but the stylus will. You need to update us on your system so we can give more objective suggestions...

It's nice to see younger people buying vinyl. BTW, the resurgence of vinyl isn't recent, it started to overtake CDs in sales around 2007 or 2008. I was in college at that time, and one of my class projects was music. I researched, and found out about the CD/Vinyl sales totals.

I can see the beauty of having large full album artwork with LPs, also the "cool factor" of see in the record actually play. As far as sound I find it sensible to believe that the sound primarily depends on the DA conversion used and how the recording was mixed.. It is aksi important to note that recordings such as the one mentioned in the video are relatively new, so they would be originally recorded in digital, not analog, and the digital music is pressed onto an analog format., DDA. An old recording say from the 70s used exclusively analog in the recording method, so it a true 100% analog, non digital sound.

I listen to deezer, and when I see a statistic to what I listen the most, then I decide if its worth buying vynil. It is an awesome experience I usually listen to the whole album, like a concert. And I like to hawe it in phisical shape on the shelf. Plus the sound is raw direct from phisical vibrations of the needle, no conversion. And I doo agree that some are composed realy bad.

It’s the mastering. It’s made with much more care because the format demands it compared to digital/CDs where they can just hit the limiter and push it up to 11 and be done with it. Not that there aren’t terribly mastered records (cause they do exist). But I’d say for 80 to 90% of *newer* popular music today, Vinyl is always the best option sound-wise, now if you add cool colors and better looking artwork it’s just a no-brainer, I think.

Add a high end turntable with a high end MM or MC cartridge, and you will not believe the difference. That's when you begin hearing things in the music that wasn't there in the digital. I own both because I use the streamer to listen to much more music than buying every album (CD or record).

For me vynils just sound so much more natural and warm compared to digital a good cartridge and preamp can make a huge difference if you want to get the most out of your vynils

I buy vinyl, I buy cd’s, I buy downloadable media, hell, I’ll buy an 8-track if I can find it! I love all the different versions! Always have, always will!

When I was a child there was really only vinyl, cassette or reel to reel then into my early twenties CD came along. It was wonderful being able to listen to a whole album without getting up, no cleaning the record, no fiddling with the turntable just plug and play but to say people listened to the whole album in a go is not correct. Most of us made compilation tapes that we could listen to without having to go through the palava of vinyl or we bought singles. Albums were expensive so it was a huge risk to buy and unknown album and then find that there were only a couple of tracks you liked no matter how many times you listened. The resurgence of vinyl is like the resurgence of mechanical watches. There is a perceived romance to it that for many of us who remember the birth of CD or quartz does not exist, the convenience outweighs the romance and I swear a great deal of why people think vinyl or mechanical watches are better is down to romance and nostalgia and especially amongst the young who seem to yearn for the romantic past rather than the real past. Personally I have heard good digital beat poor vinyl hands down and to get really good vinyl reproduction costs a great deal more than good digital I have found. The one thing vinyl does do better though is the album artwork and liner notes, much easier to read and to enjoy. If you are dipping your toes into vinyl then you must get Jeff Wayne's war of the worlds. Not only is it beautifully recorded nothing beats the original vinyl albums artwork, a true feast for the eyes. But please, though Vinyl is good, don´t over romanticise it.

Loving the khemmis shirt and album. One of my favorites of the modern metal era!

Look! I always preferred the sound of an LP to any CD but there have always been some exceptions! I mean take for example the music made by Madonna. She's always making sure that all of her music no matter on cassette, LP, or digital would give the highest quality possible, and many other artists wanted just that so as you probably know, the bitrate of a CD is 1411kb/s compared to over 1900 kb/s for most vinyl! Of course, it depends on the type of sound system you listen to your music with but I can assure you that every time I'm playing an LP, people are so incredibly amazed just like if the band or artists were there giving a show live!

Your reasoning seemed to center primarily around the tactile 'the user experience', rather than any improvements to sound quality. Fair enough.

Yeah, vinyl have surface noise cracks and pops, we suffer through it because the mastering for a vinyl record is much different than for digital anything. It's the mastering that you're listening to.

There are two main reasons why vinyl "sounds better" than digital 1. The mastering process is different (vinyl mastering cannot exceed 0 VU, whereas mastering for digital goes way more than this, thus resulting in less dynamic range). So, for example same album mastered for vinyl would sound more open, because it's not maximized. But, if you'd have the same master for vinyl but transposed on a CD format it would sound the same. 2. The process of reading the information from vinyl induces micro distortions from the cartridge to phono preamp and then to speakers. These micro distortions are perceived as "warmth" None of them are "better", they are just different.

My "If-could-only-take-one-record-to-the-island" choice of vinyl album would be 40 yo "Avalon" from Roxy Music (especially b-side track 1 "Main thing"). An album that imho neither on CD nor streaming (even as lossless) has nearly the same warmth and smoothness nor dynamic range than on a good turntable.

Mastering differences and choices is probably the main reason for auditory differences between vinyl records and digital formats, mainly dynamic range. Nearly everything is digital anyway. Digital formats have the potential for greater dynamic range but since the mid 1990s everything is being mastered loud to the point of constant clipping. Those loud masterings just makes me want to turn the volume down or off - even if the music's great. Some LPs are more dynamic than their digital counterparts for various reasons, and I think that also is part of the appeal. Looking at the numbers on Dynamic Range DB, In The Court Of The Dragon has a digital DR average of 6. The LP version has 11.

If you are looking to upgrade cartridges I would highly highly recommend an audio technica vm95ml. Everyone will reccomended an ortofon blue but I just switched from a 2m Bronze with maybe a 5% reduction in sound quality while adding better tracking. Not to mention less than half the price. Thanks for the video!

The cheapest upgrade for your turntable is an Audio Technica AT VM 95 e. You should buy it ready-to-play mounted on a headshell, when you are a beginner in the world of cartridges. No justage and brandnew elliptical needle ! Look at RU-vid, how to prepare it. There are enough videos ! Maybe you'll need a cheap gauge. Your Stanton 500 cartridge was good. In the 80s ! Welcome in the wonderful world of vinyl ! Go the way of self experience...

Noticed you had Blackwater Park in your collection. Clearly you are a man of great taste 🤌

Vinyl sounds like when we go to a life show.

So, this video just introduced me to two new (to me) bands. Thank you for that. But once I saw that you had Sunbather in your collection, I subbed. Good job! Look forward to your new videos 👏🏼

The reason why you buy vinyl is because you want to feel the music. Analog music gives you so much more frequencies and tones, that you wouldn't have in the digital world. For sure, a good digital quality can near the analog quality, but by its nature it's simply impossible to reach the same level. The feeling of music especially applies to Maxi Singles, because they are made for discos with large sound systems: You have only one or two songs on each side, what result in wider grooves, so you can get more sound out of it in comparsion to an album where the grooves are put tinier together. Also, vinyls can last for centuries. Try this with CD's ;-)

Just went to see Khemmis live. They are really good, and so is Callous Daoboys. They will be blowing up soon.

I grew up with vinyl. I do not miss it one bit.

Truth be told! When I listen to vinyl, I always make it into a ritual. I fetch my favourite drink, I set the chair in the direction of the speakers, I look at the album art, and choose the perfect record for that specific moment. In a sense, vinyl is the closest I will ever get to meditating. I am not a music snob, I listen to whatever I find catchy. I unapologetically own six Duran Duran albums and my turntable is something straight out of an audiophile's worst nightmare. Music coming out of it is neither high fidelity nor particularly sophisticated, but it is fun to listen and observe it in spinning action. On the other hand, I use Spotify as a background filler while commuting to work or for setting the mood at a possibly awkward introduction to a dinner party. For me, digital and vinyl work on two completely different levels, both with their own benefits. :D

I'm 47 and been collecting since age 4 because of my older brother. I am glad that many people are now getting into it again the downside is that record prices are going up. hard to get rare soul records at an affordable price

You hit the nail on the head....You bought an album you really liked, and listened to it as a fan of music, not some analytical process. That's the bottom line. Plus, that album slaps in so many different ways it lends itself to the medium.

mastering, loudness wars, etc contribute to which sounds better. I personally prefer CDs from the very early 90s and 80s. After that timeframe digital tends to have poor dynamic range. However, on vinyl sometimes it still sounds pretty good. Maybe just because of the way it's put onto the format. But I think personally that CDs can sound better as far as potential as a format. If they didn't mess it up with loudness and compressed dynamic range. Luckily for me my favorite music is from the 90s backwards.

Glad you are enjoying vinyl, I have been listening to vinyl since birth 48 yrs ago. Your turntable looks like a quality table, with quartz lock. What is your receiver/ amp and speaker set up?

I think your cartridge is ok it is a well known brand, I also have a cartrige of 40 years old and it still sounds fantastic it is a moving coil cartridge SATIN 117 G have fun with your elpees and cds 🙂

yeah I'm kind of with you a little bit but kind of the inverse. I grew up in the '80s and while I remember CD's coming out I don't ever remember having one until 1996 or maybe 97. for me it wasn't records though, and when I was growing up and into the middle 90s when I went to buy an album of any kind I got it on tape. so you know for me I had heard records as a kid but you know it wasn't something I personally used to enjoy music. so fast forward till 2012 and I read in a magazine about how records are making a comeback Plus I started seeing them more and more at thrift stores and record stores I go to whereas just 10 years before a lot of these places would throw away records if they got them. but anyway I ended up getting a turntable and I've been in love with the format ever since. I don't go out and buy a lot of modern records I tend to be more of a thrift store antique shop shopper when it comes to picking up vinyl, because a lot of times you can pick up really neat interesting albums from antique stores and thrift shops that you just wouldn't normally think of or find. like I remember picking up from an antique shop a Japanese record of a funk album by a group called The count Buffalo's. I never heard of them but it's a fantastic album and there's like 50 stories of albums like that that I found at these places. if only now cassette would make a comeback and I don't just mean them releasing new cassettes no I mean them putting out quality playback equipment. but from what I understand of the major manufacturers that ain't going to happen.

I grew up in the vinyl age. The 70's and early 80's vinyl was the thing to have at home and cassette where for on the go. The biggest thing about listening to vinyl is that you put it on to actually listen to it. Not as background noise. When you pop in a tape or CD. You just don't sit there and pay as close attention to it as you do with vinyl. The loudness wars of the 2000's really killed the CD for me. There are now vinyl albums coming out of 2000's CD's that was okay to listen to on the radio, but the CD itself gives you major ear fatigue, but the vinyl now allows you to enjoy those albums without that problem. The whole mastering process is different between the types of media used as well. The thing you can do on a CD or cassette will not go over well on a record. I am far from being an audiophile, and will never claim to be one. I am a music lover. And I collect all the formats that have the music I love on it. All of my equipment is 2nd hand and was cheap. I am really happy with the sound of my system. Between my music collection and the equipment. If I bought it all brand new. I would have over $250,000.00 invested. But honestly. Over 20 years I might have about $5000,00 in everything. In music alone I have about 15,000 albums on CD, Cassette, and Vinyl. Listen, Love, and Enjoy the format of your choice, and don't be a snob about it. Music is ART that is accessible to everyone that wants it.

I just prefer records myself, not only does it hold a sentimental value, if you've grown up with records and going to the record shop waiting for the album to come out or you just managed to get hold of the last copy is somewhat satisfying. I do like CDs as well however it all depends on the source of reproduction. Also the art work is more pleasing than a CD inlay, you can sit there appreciating the media alas they don't cut records the way they used to, yes you'll find a heavier vinyl but really that doesn't make that much of a difference. Ultimately the experience most young people get with records are a lot of misconceptions. There are less than few cutting station around at best you'll find one or two if you're lucky maybe a new business sprung up however it's nothing like the old days where record cutting was a specialist craft that was shared through father and son and so forth. That all stopped when CD starting making a scene in the 80s. Records have been the longest running music medium going back as earliest to 1860. CDs cassettes they haven't reached that mile marker yet. I guess even with the wear and tear with records and click pop that comes with it records are something to cherish

I liked your perspective, that it sounds different, not better or worse. It all depends on the album and mastering. I also liked your reflections on the difference in the experience of listening. You definitely have to be more purposeful with a vinyl album. I think vinyl is cool, and there is a certain magic to sound coming off of that groove. But for me, the reason I don't know that I will ever go vinyl is storage space, and the nagging feeling that my music is slowly degrading with each play. I've got nearly a terabyte of music stored on a micro-SD card and backed up on a SSD. So my storage space is roughly the size of a pack of gum.

You said it you want / like both mediums The photography industry is having the same kind of growing pains with the resurgence of film same thing both mediums should be available

records are fun

When you buy on vinyl.. you OWN it. When you stream.. you don't own shit.

Callous Daoboys are a good reason to start. It was Protest the Heros Volition that got me...

Analog formats tend to sound more realistic, regardless of technical aspects.

For me the biggest problem with vinyl is that you have to get up and turn it over half way through listening to an album. It ruins the listening experience just like a commercial break half way through a film does.

Welcome to the club. It doesn't matter if digital has better frequency response or signal to noise ratio if it is not taken advantage of. 90% of what you hear as better in a vinyl versus digital, coming from a vinyl fan, is EQ and compression differences. Yes you can train yourself to hear the analog difference as well, but the thing that immediately grabs people is the fact that most digital files now are made to be played on a cell phone. And even the high res ones suffer from what I consider to be poor EQ and poor dynamic range. With a vinyl, EQ and dynamic range becomes important. You can't fit 20 minutes on a side if you're cutting it at Max DB for the entire album. I think now that you've gone into this rabbit hole you will slowly learn what albums to expect better from and what albums to not expect better from. And I think you'll find that sometimes that OG press that you find at a thrift Market is really going to open up an album that maybe you underappreciated.

CD is also a great format, especially with current second hand values and the signal goes through a DAC.

I think as the general public re-learns about music formats and what modern records really are, we're gonna see the total market annihilation of CDs in the same way that records have been massacred. most people jumping into vinyl have no idea they're buying digital CD-quality masters pressed onto a format that is objectively not as optimised for detailed playback. a lot of them frankly don't care and simply want the big printed artwork and a vinyl disc that looks like it's made of melted skittles which is absolutely fine, but for those that genuinely want the optimal price to performance with their physical music you should be looking at expanding your CD catalogue before it's too expensive again

It's about the "human" physical experience and the record covers that showcase the art. I'm 45, and I remember the nostalgia. I have about 350 vinyl records myself. Unfortunately, vinyl is not portable. Which is why I love cd's as well.