Man. I miss the sound of a needle on a record....

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Actually, for 1971, that's a pretty modern sounding, spread out mix.
 
I saw them back around 73', they were AMASING. What I miss the most is the album art. The jacket was something you could hold and read. Lots of room for eye candy. sigh.....
 
I saw them back around 73', they were AMASING. What I miss the most is the album art. The jacket was something you could hold and read. Lots of room for eye candy. sigh.....

Definitely. Looking forward to getting home and un-rapping an album was a thrill. Some albums came with some really cool shit inside.
 
The thing I miss about albums is the whole process...the large artwork, the liner notes, the sitting down and playing the entire side at one sitting, and then flipping for th either side...
...it was a ritual.
AFA the sound of vynil...yeah, it was quite good, not to mention that back in those days people had decent stereo systems, so of course everything sounded better/bigger, but I think the quality of current productions exceeds most of the vinyl stuff of yesteryear on many levels...if/when people don't abuse the capability of today's gear or (in which case it can suck).
Vinyl records deteriorate with each pass, but yeah there is something cool about them still...when the needle first hits the surface and you hear that very mild hiss/crackle before the first song starts.

I still have a few hundred albums and a pretty decent Technics stereo system from the mid-'80s..even bought a couple of top quality needle cartridges for it several years back as I wanted to pull some things off a couple of albums to mess around with...but I honestly can't remember the last time I put on a vinyl record on the turntable to listen to it.
 
I agree with miro. I was just a kid, but I used to sit for hours and listen to LP's from one side to the other and just stare at the cover art. That was when albums were albums and some thought was put into track sequence and how it all flowed together. Good times. I'm not nostalgic for it though. I'm just as happy sitting and listening to an MP3 album streaming through my monitors. Most of the bands I like that still make music are keeping the album alive. The only thing missing is the cover art.
 
I'm not nostalgic for it though. I'm just as happy sitting and listening to an MP3 album streaming through my monitors.
Yeah, I agree with both of you. I wouldn't actually go get a turntable and start a record collection. I'm just as happy finding a song that pops into my head out of the blue on Youtube (like this one). But saving up, buying, un-rapping, and listening while reading and checking out the cover art and the inside stuff was an experience in itself.
 
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Yup. I used to carefully cut a slit in my album packaging so the record could come out but the plastic stayed on. I thought it would keep them valuable or something.

Still, on a good system, a record sure sounds good.
 
One of the guys in my band has a pretty sweet refurbed old school hi-fi with a turntable. We listen to the Ramones first few albums on that thing. Sonic bliss. It's like hearing them for the first time again. In it's original analog form, those albums are powerful. They literally give me chills.
 
Yup. I used to carefully cut a slit in my album packaging so the record could come out but the plastic stayed on..

You guys made me smile on the trip back down memory lane. However, you forgot to mention placing a quarter on the cartridge to stop the skips that were caused by your younger sister bumping the turntable too many times.
 
You guys made me smile on the trip back down memory lane. However, you forgot to mention placing a quarter on the cartridge to stop the skips that were caused by your younger sister bumping the turntable too many times.

:D

Or trying to center a 45 when you can't find the little squiggly plastic thing that goes in the middle. :laughings:
 
You guys made me smile on the trip back down memory lane. However, you forgot to mention placing a quarter on the cartridge to stop the skips that were caused by your younger sister bumping the turntable too many times.

Dude a quarter was way too heavy. Pennies man.
 
:D

Or trying to center a 45 when you can't find the little squiggly plastic thing that goes in the middle. :laughings:

My mom still has a drawer full of those things. I showed one to my kids, of course they had no clue what it was. They thought it was a little toy disc that shoots out of a toy gun.
 
I actually got a turntable recently. My wife and I like to cruise the used CD/record stores, and we were noticing a bunch of stuff on records (but not CD) that we wanted to check out. So I got a turntable that has a USB port in it. You plug in a flash drive, and when you play a record, it rips it to MP3 (does a nice job of reading the breaks). Honestly though, we've only done that 2 or 3 times. Mostly we just like the nostalgia (for us it's about when we were 12) of playing "record albums" and reading the liner notes and checking out the artwork while doing so.
 
I still listen to and buy new and used vinyl. Never stopped, so not a very nostalgic thread for me.

I would personally not go with a USB turntable.... kind of the turntable equiv of a USB mic, and I already have a nice Stanton deck.
Also it takes about 1/10 of the time to download a digital copy than it does to rip one from vinyl, but to each his own.

I wouldn't mind a nostalgia thread about cassettes though....fitting 2 albums on an XLII90....4-tracking....my car being so inundated with tapes that other passengers have to shovel them out of the way.... man THOSE were the days.
 
I still listen to and buy new and used vinyl. Never stopped, so not a very nostalgic thread for me.

I would personally not go with a USB turntable.... kind of the turntable equiv of a USB mic, and I already have a nice Stanton deck.
Also it takes about 1/10 of the time to download a digital copy than it does to rip one from vinyl, but to each his own.

I wouldn't mind a nostalgia thread about cassettes though....fitting 2 albums on an XLII90....4-tracking....my car being so inundated with tapes that other passengers have to shovel them out of the way.... man THOSE were the days.

Lol. Fuck tapes. I never valued them in any way. They were disposable, cheap, pieces of shit. I did make a shitload of tapes and my first recordings were to tape, but I have no soft spot for those damn things.
 
I still listen to and buy new and used vinyl. Never stopped, so not a very nostalgic thread for me.

I would personally not go with a USB turntable.... kind of the turntable equiv of a USB mic, and I already have a nice Stanton deck.
Also it takes about 1/10 of the time to download a digital copy than it does to rip one from vinyl, but to each his own.

I wouldn't mind a nostalgia thread about cassettes though....fitting 2 albums on an XLII90....4-tracking....my car being so inundated with tapes that other passengers have to shovel them out of the way.... man THOSE were the days.



my first car stereo was a hand me down 8 track player with a cassette adapter.you could hit the button that would give you 4 different channels or something to that effect,and each one would sound slightly different.the only 8 track i had was mob rules from sabbath.it got the job done though til i actually threw enough morning papers to buy a cassette player.
 
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