Records

[Guest .Christine Elizabeth.]

I got a record player for Christmas and have really gotten into vinyl music. Anybody here listen to records? What are y'all's favorite features of vinyl etc etc. Really anything record related :3

[Guest]

My favourite thing about record sound is that it is not a sharp sound as digital sound is.

The white noise is something to embrace as well as the snapp. crackel, pops .

Playing vinyls with 1/2 gram of needle weight is something as well.

Huggs,

Joann

[Guest blackcoffee_redwine]

i own over 850 vinyl records of everything from rock to french stand up comedy....its a mild obsession hahah lately ive been buying stuff i pirated in high school like sufjan stevens and bright eyes. also lately ive adored waking up and listening to beatle records.

[Carolyn Marie]

My son (20 years) has really gotten into vinyl, and I'm surprised at how many groups are publishing in that format. I also love the look of the new records, most of which are not the old plain black.

I still have my vinyl collection - I won't ever get rid of it - and once in a while I'll play them on my old turntable. They still sound great, and I've got a bunch of things that I never duplicated in CD form. And here's something I'll bet only a few of you have - a wind up 78 RPM record player, circa 1920. It doesn't have the horn type speaker, but it sounds great with one of my 78's with Mario Lanza, Count Basie or Louie Armstrong. My brother is a huge collector, and has a couple with the original horn speakers that are awesome.

HUGS

Carolyn Marie

[Guest Guitargodess214]

I own a few albums my faves are Melissa and Don't Break The Oath by Mercyfaul Fate anything by Ozzy Osbourne or Alice Cooper, one of my all time faves is the Single Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus you haven't lived till you hear the song in it's origional format.

[Sally]

I had a rather extensive record collection of over 5,000 LPs (did I mention that I worked in record stores for 11 years?), they are now residing in a Jazz Museum in Sherman, Texas along with one of the trumpets that I played very early in my career.

The record collection is there because it covers such a large span of music history, the trumpet because it was a rather hard to find one (not because it was mine )

Who knows maybe one day another of my horns will reside there because I played it.

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest eXOh]

I'm sitting in my room listening to my Blue October vinyls right now

My collection isn't too extensive, and mostly I picked up things I could run through a USB turntable and sample when I made my own music. I do, however, have some really great and interesting classical and folk records, including Autumn by George Winston (an absolutely gorgeous piano solo record) and the Roger Kellaway Cello Quartet (Freeform classical; woo!).

I've been building my collection for awhile, but I haven't had access to a working turntable since ~2011, so I finally just picked one up off Amazon for $50 and I'm thrilled with it so far. I love me some physical media!