Vinyl collecting vs. CD collecting

Bushbr89 · 05-05-2013, 10:03 AM

I much prefer collecting vinyls. I don't know what it is, but there is something very impersonal about a CD. The analog quality of the record is really what appeals to me I think. the fact that music is being made by a needle running across perfectly formed grooves and tracks and ridges to give us the complex sound of the music we love seems much more naturalistic and pure, as apposed to a laser simply reading a digital file.

Also with the limited amount of space for music on a record as opposed to a CD I feel the artists had to be more selective and careful with what they decided went on any certain album, whereas with the ever increasing size of CDs artists can now just throw every song they made in the last year on it. Couple that fact with easy reverse and skipping and fast forwarding of the CD as opposed to the vinyl I feel the artists were also more cognitive of how one track flowed and worked with the one before and after it resulting in the earlier albums being much more of a structured story and experience as apposed to simply 10-15 songs on a disk.

05-05-2013, 10:03 AM	#11 (permalink)
Bushbr89 Groupie Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Milwaukee WI Posts: 27	I much prefer collecting vinyls. I don't know what it is, but there is something very impersonal about a CD. The analog quality of the record is really what appeals to me I think. the fact that music is being made by a needle running across perfectly formed grooves and tracks and ridges to give us the complex sound of the music we love seems much more naturalistic and pure, as apposed to a laser simply reading a digital file. Also with the limited amount of space for music on a record as opposed to a CD I feel the artists had to be more selective and careful with what they decided went on any certain album, whereas with the ever increasing size of CDs artists can now just throw every song they made in the last year on it. Couple that fact with easy reverse and skipping and fast forwarding of the CD as opposed to the vinyl I feel the artists were also more cognitive of how one track flowed and worked with the one before and after it resulting in the earlier albums being much more of a structured story and experience as apposed to simply 10-15 songs on a disk.