Why do YOU love vinyl?
The question is a little odd, isn’t it? I mean, does anyone really love vinyl? Vinyl is noisy, fragile, inconvenient. Vinyl forces you to either listen to the songs in the order they are on the record, or get up and change tracks. Remote vinyl? No such thing. The very best vinyl, Better Records Hot Stampers, are insanely expensive. Or the 45s, again have you jumping up and down all the time.
With vinyl you have to have a masters in physics, geometry, and engineering just to set one up. Oh, enough jigs and meters and test records to fill a mad-scientists laboratory.
Then also with vinyl you have to put up with all the looks and comments from people who "know" you must have a screw loose, or be some kind of troglodyte with nostalgia for the good old days that never were. Or if its not that then the ones who "know" it doesn’t measure, its not "high-rez", and what you really love is "distortion".
Okay, I guess maybe you could love vinyl, at least a little, because you know that in spite of all that it is the one true audiophile Gold Standard, the one digital is always being said to be "like". The highest compliment ever paid any digital anything always seems to be, analog-"like". Which tells you right there they all know (really know, not the fake scare quotes "know") which one is really The One.
But even that is kind of weak, nowhere near enough to make me, or probably anyone else, really love vinyl.
No. Sorry.
Dunno about anyone else, but what I love is music. Just absolutely love it. Always have. Probably always will. And the better it sounds, the more I love it. Which, unfortunately for me, nothing else makes music sound better than vinyl.
The question is a little odd, isn’t it? I mean, does anyone really love vinyl? Vinyl is noisy, fragile, inconvenient. Vinyl forces you to either listen to the songs in the order they are on the record, or get up and change tracks. Remote vinyl? No such thing. The very best vinyl, Better Records Hot Stampers, are insanely expensive. Or the 45s, again have you jumping up and down all the time.
With vinyl you have to have a masters in physics, geometry, and engineering just to set one up. Oh, enough jigs and meters and test records to fill a mad-scientists laboratory.
Then also with vinyl you have to put up with all the looks and comments from people who "know" you must have a screw loose, or be some kind of troglodyte with nostalgia for the good old days that never were. Or if its not that then the ones who "know" it doesn’t measure, its not "high-rez", and what you really love is "distortion".
Okay, I guess maybe you could love vinyl, at least a little, because you know that in spite of all that it is the one true audiophile Gold Standard, the one digital is always being said to be "like". The highest compliment ever paid any digital anything always seems to be, analog-"like". Which tells you right there they all know (really know, not the fake scare quotes "know") which one is really The One.
But even that is kind of weak, nowhere near enough to make me, or probably anyone else, really love vinyl.
No. Sorry.
Dunno about anyone else, but what I love is music. Just absolutely love it. Always have. Probably always will. And the better it sounds, the more I love it. Which, unfortunately for me, nothing else makes music sound better than vinyl.