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Vinyl Reason

I am setting my first stereo system which consists of turntable, amp and speakers. I wonder why people make a decision to go vinyl. In my case I just wanted to revoke that something I had in past....to feel myself the way I felt 20 years ago when I was a teenager...to expirience that ritual of landing LP on a turntable disk, starting the motor, pulling tonearm...whatching it spinning...
But for many people it could be quite different reason. Is it maybe because the quality of vinyl sound is "different"?..just like tube amp sounds differently from SS...
sputniks
twl
3,251 posts
 
I like the sound better.
Maybe others have different reasons.
newbee
4,093 posts
 
LOL. Your reason is far more rational than many that I have read here. You are to be congratulated for you candor - many would not admit to this.

But, as you suggest, the reasons are many. Some never had a choice, it was vinyl or nothing (except tape)but they didn't get out of it when CD's came. Others are now exploring it because its an "in thing" to do. Some because they are exploring music that is not otherwise available to them, some because they just like the "sound" of vinyl and some because vinyl can be cheaply obtained.

After all, this hobby is about what you find enjoyable, not what others do............
stevecham
3,298 posts
 
do it for the sound
riffer
362 posts
 
The straw that broke the camel's back for me was the poor remastering to CD of some of my favorite LP's.

Why sit through that when you can just play the record?
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nsgarch
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I think one of the tragedies of (other than Classical) CD playing, is the ease, and so the inclination, to skip around the album; not giving the artist a chance to have you hear the way he/she intended for you to hear the entire compilation. I knew we were in trouble when the first CDP's began showing up with the "preview" function.

Honestly, who gets a new LP and puts on side Two first!?

(Don't tell me, I don't want to know!)
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