plants

9mo

who cares it's a fckn vibe and a half and everytime i throw a party at my place ppl are fawning over my player and small collection.

the difference between having a curated collection of music to spin at a shindig and just bumping anything u want from a phone is huge imo. sure at the end of the day chunes is chunes but god its sum so special about spinnin a record idk why but its just like that.

i especially love that my player got the ability to change speed, being able to slow/reverb any vinyl i got is fckn op and can totally change the mood. similarly, sped up tracks are sometimes godly and can rly get ppl movin

PADYBU

9mo

This must ALWAYS be taken on a case by case basis

a vinyl record MAY be the best way to hear a certain recording (especially old music) if it's been so long that the master tapes were eroded when they were pressed to CD, or if the CDs mastering was s***ty.

I have plenty of vinyl rips because there isn't a better sounding copy of that particular album that i've heard

Some s*** that was released back then sounds better on CD or WEB... there may have been a defect during the pressing or maybe the master tapes were stored very well and a nice transparent copy can be pressed to CD

There are a couple albums which I prefer a rip of a Reel to Reel for like Fleetwood Mac's Rumours or The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers.

Also, you might find that a recording can benefit from the different warmth, soundstage, imaging that can come with pressing something to wax

i've spent many years searching for the best sounding versions of music i love, there is no one answer for this, there are so many variables that must be taken into account

Malakas

9mo

That’s a good point about older recordings

Malakas

9mo

CDs were better and digital audio has only improved.
But vinyl’s really fun and still sounds great, and has a warm, authentic quality to it

babylon sherm

9mo

Life sxn? But why?

babylon sherm

9mo

Life sxn? But why?

DONNIE BAHAMA

9mo

Just bought a record player, curious if it lives up to the hype

Fever

9mo

It depends on if the player/needle/speakers are actually good or not

And if the music actually translates well to vinyl. Mista thug isolation and godspeed you is by far the best on vinyl for example while other things might suck

It depends on if you like the fuzzy physical sound too. Some would just prefer lossless or flac

plants

9mo

who cares it's a fckn vibe and a half and everytime i throw a party at my place ppl are fawning over my player and small collection.

the difference between having a curated collection of music to spin at a shindig and just bumping anything u want from a phone is huge imo. sure at the end of the day chunes is chunes but god its sum so special about spinnin a record idk why but its just like that.

i especially love that my player got the ability to change speed, being able to slow/reverb any vinyl i got is fckn op and can totally change the mood. similarly, sped up tracks are sometimes godly and can rly get ppl movin

WRU

9mo

idk if anyone mentioned it here but its always been a tricky argument for vinyl

number one: a lot of times it opens a rabbit hole of having to buy a whole bunch of bullshit just so you could get that 'perfect' sound. you'd have people telling you to buy the right record players, amps, speakers, consoles, stands, headphones, etc. and thats just too cumbersome for many. so when vinyl enthusiasts say it sounds better they often omit 'provided you got the right equipment' to make it sound better than it is

number two: a lot of albums not pressed in the vinyl era--the time when records were mixed and recorded specifically for playing on vinyl--do not really carry over the quality you can truly get out of a***og recordings. especially for hip hop you will find a lot of times that artists would just put the digital version of their album on vinyl and call it a day. its only a selected few musicians across all genres who spend extra on special vinyl mastering, and those few end up being very specific musicians not everybody might like (Michael Gira of Swans immediately comes to mind, a lot of rock musicians really). so in that regard digital isnt too much different from vinyl so its only sentimental value you might get out of owning a physical copy of an album you enjoy

ALL THAT SAID, I do believe that you can get generally better sound out of vinyl than digital. my circumstances are such that I cant have an elaborate setup, so I got my mini record player (audio technica sound burger), a mini speaker, and/or my everyday earphones. most albums I put on still sound really really good on vinyl even though the player isnt all that and it might damage my record and my headphones arent the best yadda yadda yadda. I get more bass, the records are louder and often play more clearly, and it's often just fun to flip that record around over queuing up an album on AM

enjoy this hobby and dont worry about not being too a*** about it. I gotta wonder what record player you got though because I heard those crosleys are really bad and they often get gifted to newcomers but its a small thing

WRU

9mo

having a bunch of random old rnb/soul/funk records that you got for $3 a pop just to throw em on during a party

WRU

9mo

dam kudos for putting my four paragraphs in five sentences

DONNIE BAHAMA

9mo

I got a Fluance

WRU

9mo

idk if anyone mentioned it here but its always been a tricky argument for vinyl

number one: a lot of times it opens a rabbit hole of having to buy a whole bunch of bullshit just so you could get that 'perfect' sound. you'd have people telling you to buy the right record players, amps, speakers, consoles, stands, headphones, etc. and thats just too cumbersome for many. so when vinyl enthusiasts say it sounds better they often omit 'provided you got the right equipment' to make it sound better than it is

number two: a lot of albums not pressed in the vinyl era--the time when records were mixed and recorded specifically for playing on vinyl--do not really carry over the quality you can truly get out of a***og recordings. especially for hip hop you will find a lot of times that artists would just put the digital version of their album on vinyl and call it a day. its only a selected few musicians across all genres who spend extra on special vinyl mastering, and those few end up being very specific musicians not everybody might like (Michael Gira of Swans immediately comes to mind, a lot of rock musicians really). so in that regard digital isnt too much different from vinyl so its only sentimental value you might get out of owning a physical copy of an album you enjoy

ALL THAT SAID, I do believe that you can get generally better sound out of vinyl than digital. my circumstances are such that I cant have an elaborate setup, so I got my mini record player (audio technica sound burger), a mini speaker, and/or my everyday earphones. most albums I put on still sound really really good on vinyl even though the player isnt all that and it might damage my record and my headphones arent the best yadda yadda yadda. I get more bass, the records are louder and often play more clearly, and it's often just fun to flip that record around over queuing up an album on AM

enjoy this hobby and dont worry about not being too a*** about it. I gotta wonder what record player you got though because I heard those crosleys are really bad and they often get gifted to newcomers but its a small thing

Big Tobacco

9mo

I think certain genres sound better on vinyl.

I primarily only buy reggae/dub on vinyl for this reason because it’s one of the few that undeniably sound superior to me