Records
 

Who here has a record player and who does not? I found a really sweet shop in the basement of some building in Detroit today and went a little crazy. Crazy as in I have almost no money and what I had in my pocket I spent on records. I bought Jethro Tull-Aqualung for me mum 'cause she LOVES it. For myself I bought Alice Cooper-Welcome to my Nightmare, some Chicago recording, a Blue Oyster Cult one with Don't Fear The Reaper on it, a few others that i cannot think of and two various artists(rock) albums. I bought I whole bunch of 33s but the record player I have(VERY old BTW) has adapters so I can play anything on it. I love strange record shops in basements.

I really don't get the whole big deal about record players. I know a bunch of people who think they're so cool and brag about how awesome and elite they are because they own a record player.

I love my record player! I've got records I cant find on cd.
*feels awesome and elite*

i have one, well.. partly mine, its a 'house hi-fi' shared with my mates (who blew the speakers, grrrr).

I can't afford to buy much music so i buy mainly records now. The sound better than CDs, they look and feel better than CDs and theres the whole collectability thing. Also theres the fact that there are alot of vinyl only releases and special artwork, special editions etc.

record players are all about nostalgia. My dad has a stax player which would fetch a 4 figure sum today. personally i prefer CD's.

I`ve got about 200 vinyl albums in a shed somewhere , i`ve not owned a record player in about 8 years and I don`t miss it.

The only thing I miss about them is the covers , and trawling through racks of vinyl in record shops.

i hope most people on this site have a record player.

i read in some interview that if you have a top notch record player, and good quality records the sound would beat that of an mp3?
Something to do with the way the sound is put out on wax, how the notes carry longer or something.
Clearly i didn't understand it too well..

It's true. We just studied that stuff in physics, it has to do with harmonic distortion and sine waves. But records do produce a better sound also because the cds of a really high fidelity will pick up on mistakes in the production that records aren't capable of picking up.

cool
*copies and pastes in word*

ill have to keep that.