It's decided -- records and turntables are mainstream again. Check out this article in The New York Times Technology Section:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/techn ... l?emc=eta1

-David

I won't have to "go back" to them. I never left.

Larry

That was a good read, i hope the amount of new vinyl increases and the younger generation
get to see what vinyl is all about.

I agree...good read. But, "Kids" these days do not have the patience required to truly "LISTEN" to vinyl. I am not older or younger...will be 34 years young in June...but all I remember from childhood is vinyl. I own a lot more vinyl than I do tapes or even cd's. Most of my childhood memories revolve around listening to records.
Right now kids are dressing in styles from the 80's. But all they know is music at the push of a button...rewind...fast forward...skip...Vinyl was still popular in the 80's....it is coming back around and I am a little scared of the true "old school" beauty of it all being taken away from us. JMHO.

Im 43 so all there was when i was young was vinyl or tape, i know i was quite old before i got a cd player and i never understould then what all the fuss was about and i still dont.
Give me vinyl anyday.

Most of the younger (under 25) people I know don't own a stereo system. They listen to music on their phones, MP3 players, computers, or tablets.

The other day my neice she is 14 had a sleep over with my daughter, they came down in my basement, the look on her face when she saw my 5 consoles, i had to play her a record, i think she was quiet taken with them.
My daughter is 10 she thinks my changers are great, she will sit and watch one play a stack of 45s, i had to explain how a record player makes music, because as you have said its all mp3 players and music on her computer.

I'm in my 30s, and grew up with vinyl too. I just COULDN'T BELIEVE it when, around 1989 or so, all the vinyl LPs in the popular stores like the Record Bar (which had been gradually renaming all their stores "Tracks", paving the way for obsolescence of the LP in favor of the CD), suddenly were all in Cut-Out Bins, with the edges of the jackets chopped off, and marked for like 2 dollars each... (Of course, by the time I saw it, there weren't any LP's left that were my taste, so I didn't buy any, but they were still all popular music of the day...)

Glad to see vinyl records are again so popular, but I think people are really MISSING OUT when they play their records through modern consumer-grade "EXTREME" sound systems which are tailored for modern Electronic Dance Music CD's, and have the Extreme Treble and Extreme Bass turned All The Way Up to the MAX, very UNNATURAL for reproduction of Real Acoustic Instruments like guitars and orchestras, and they Accentuate every little pop, click, hiss, and rumble, of records with the Slightext Bit of Age on them.... No wonder "kids" are so amazed & say "WOW that sounds So Much Better than CDs!" when they hear the more mellow NATURAL sound of a tube console playing LP's, when the extreme highs and lows aren't ridiculously unnaturally exxagerated...

- Bob

It already has been. What I used to call a record is now called a vinyl. Who changed that one? Spindles are called stackers. Try to find that part in a service manual.
Many song lyrics mention records, record machines and Chuck Berry mentions a hi-fi phono, boy did they let it blast. Are the lyrics for “Baby it’s Cold Outside” going to be changed to …put some vinyls on while I pour?

I’m 60 years old. There has not been a day in my life that there has not been a working record player plugged in and ready to play in my house. I’m going to keep things original and continue to call them records. The newcomers can call them what ever gives them the biggest thrill.

Pardon my verbage, DVC.
I love going RECORD hunting....not VINYL hunting. I listen to RECORDS at home...not VINYL. They are what they are....RECORDS.

No, don't apologize. You can't fight city hall. Most of my generation abandoned records. They sold them in garage sales and set them to the curb. A new generation with their own language and buzzwords has re-discovered and re-named them and I'm afraid it has stuck. You can't go back but as a card carrying cranky old coot, I reserve the right to complain.

Right On, Doug! More Power to You!

The FM DJ's in the 70's spun the "Vinyl" it's always been the cool way to call a record something other than a record.

I think the under 25's are on to something we already knew and have more patience than we give them credit.

Tomorrow, 4/21/12, is the 5th annual Record Store Day. Last year I saw at least 75 people wait in line for over 2 hours for the local record store to open with their once a year specials.
Easily 75% of the crowd was under 25...

See you tomorrow at:
http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home

Spinning vinyl at home since 1973....Still have most of them.

Mike

Wasn't "that" long ago, deejays called them "wax". "We" called them albums, once "we" got past buying singles which were "records".

Oldies station in the car, couple months back, said the number 1 selling vinyl for 3 years running was.............


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Abbey Road.

I can not wait for the 8 track to make a come back heck even the 4 track would be so cool. But wonder did they scrap the machines that made them back in the day.

I still only by my music on lp's or 45's. I never owned a cd player in my life. I been around them and did not care for it at all.

Im 16, in my public speaking class i gave many speeches on records and how an analog recording compares to a digital recording. Everyone was surprised that those "big black CD's" could actually play music.

"You Never Can Tell", 1964.

There was also, "Juke Box Baby" by Perry Como (1954), "Please Mr. DJ" by Van McCoy (1961), and "Teenage Rock" by Ronny Jones and The Classmates (1957), as three off the top of my graying head.

Abbey Road runs over 45 minutes. For that reason it's not one of the better wearing LPs.

Ken D.

Not sure that's a problem. "Standard length" of an LP was quoted as 24 minutes per side. I think it was when they would try to push 28-30 minutes that problems showed up.

-David

Don't know about the wear part, but it never was what I considered a very good sounding LP. (Of course the music was spectacular). By far the best sounding version is the 2009 digital remaster, which is amazing to hear on a modern day high quality stereo system. The original LP or the later Mobile Fidelity remaster (heavy bass boost) don't even come close.