I’ve got crates of vinyl, all old school and underground hip hop, mostly stuff from the northeast. Even got a crate of electronic music everything from house music to techno, drum and base , and jungle. I haven’t hooked up my tech 1200’s in twenty years now. But still have everything. I used to love to spin break beats and scratch records. That’s the closest I ever got to playing a musical instrument.
Im remarkably immune to the over collecting bugs. I dont have a huge vinyl collection, and every single one gets weekly plays.
There is absolutely a sound you get, with a properly pressed vinyl record, through tubes, and into a power amp you dont get any other way.
A lot of people dont even realize that a vinyl disc isnt storing data to be read, its the physical waveform of music pressed directly into the material, and there is a small, highly sculpted diamond crystal tracking the grooves this makes and vibrating with them to reproduce the sound.
I keep running into people that are surprised to find out vinyl records do stereo sound as well lmao.
I live for those moments i get to sit someone in front of my stereo thats never had a real high end audio experience. Tears are not uncommon when the only place the sound doesn't come from are the speakers that have completely vanished. Setup a stereo image properly, with a high enough fidelity source, and sound becomes genuinely, and unmistakably 3 dimensional and genuinely feels like something present in space that has physical substance in reality and i have a deep obsession with sound and music because of that lol.
Until i have a first born child, music and sound will probably continue to be the most powerful and influential force in my life.
And yea, modern vinyl records, if your playback setup is sufficient, do indeed sound better then most high res streams and CD's. But it's not because vinyl as a medium sounds better, its because the people mastering modern tracks want to the vinyl records to sound better, they make more money off of those and want people to buy them.
Always have been, always will be, the excessive useless information guy
I was banned from the jeopardy board game in my family's household by the time i was 13 lmao.
I'll be taking a cap made from a 30% THC plant Sarsparilla, GMO x Pure Michigan and I'll knock both jobs outta the park 'cause I've been doing this so long I could do it in my sleep and I have a tolerance and won't be all F'ed up.
