I have two rules to keep my sanity in online discussions like this. I don't try to justify the choices I make and I don't push my choices on others.
What's the point of posting then?I have two rules to keep my sanity in online discussions like this. I don't try to justify the choices I make and I don't push my choices on others.
BluRay, Atmos mixes.Thanks for the update. Maybe I'll return to vinyl when we hit the Contemporary era. What would Jennifer Higdon do?
Funny you should say this, I was just about to write about my ritual with CDs and then thought perhaps not add more mud to the water. In short, I really had it. I grew up in records, but a switch was the real magic for me. I was enchanted with the technology and also spent some sleepless nights when I got my first CD players as a present from my mum (I was just a kid). Anyway, that doesn't bring anything to the table, but I love a lot of things about CDs including those booklets with all the lyrics and so on. And it really is the ONLY way to listen to an album from the beginning to the end. I'm just teasing now.One thing that relates---the use of turntables in movies, TV, ads for other products, signifying "this person must be serious about music." One never sees that involving the true high end of audio [performance-wise, as in measurements] because that stuff simply isn't photogenic---a pile of blinking black boxes usually indicates that something is about to blow up. Now picture, if you will, a Topping stack. Just about everything about high-end turntables is photogenic and suggests ritual, but the highest performance audio gear is visually boring.
I was trying to be gentleman-like and practice some self-criticism.If you like the footwear, I'm certainly not going to stop you, but I actually didn't have you in mind when I wrote that.
Where’s this? My local has very high prices and seemingly good foot traffic.And finally, the prices of second hand records are plummeting so fast and so low, my shop offers 10 000 titles selection of 15 cents an album. I'm starting to wonder what this says about the whole thing.
Zagreb, Croatia, Free Bird second hand shop.Where’s this? My local has very high prices and seemingly good foot traffic.
And finally, the prices of second hand records are plummeting so fast and so low, my shop offers 10 000 titles selection of 15 cents an album. I'm starting to wonder what this says about the whole thing.
Zagreb, Croatia, Free Bird second hand shop.
Found this interesting, although I'd like to see more support for the numbers.
"In a deep-dive investigation, Mixmag recently discovered that the global vinyl industry is in crisis as a result of higher demand, rising shipping prices, and a lack of pressing materials. It was revealed the global pressing capacity is around 160 million records a year - while the demand lies at around 400 million."
On a separate note, the artist's profit from selling records is another element. I can't find it now, but I was reading how the profits from a few hundred albums is more than 500,000 streams. Might be a reason to be sure they are promoted.
Ha. I think the question was mainly answered by page 2. (13 members so far seem to agree). But a few seem to keep arguing otherwise, so here we are. Such is the nature of hobbyist forums.
Glad you stuck around for 12 pages. Can we count on your contribution on the 24th page too?
Sigh, if only there was a way to see how long a thread is without reading it.....
View attachment 197636
Depends on what you're looking for and how much energy you put into crate digging. Managed to get the Creedence Clearwater Revival LPs as white label promos for $1 a pop, about 20 years ago. You won't find Beatles LPs but you might find Macca's "CHOBA B CCCP" filed under international music and priced accordingly. Doubt that those CCR LPs would be findable today as the market has changed.Second hand shops and Sunday markets have always been dirt cheap. But you're not going to find a first print Thriller there. It's mostly mass produced compilations albums and garbage that no one wanted to begin with.
The only way forward is to take every post literally. Carry on, maestro.
@killdozzer , I appreciate your thoughts to my post on the appeal of turntables and vinyl. I think most pertinent reasons were eventually discussed in that long thread. However, the consensus was that unless you already have a lot of records, or it also holds some other appeal to you already, there was no reason to invest in it. I don't, so none of the arguments swayed me. I am very happy with my all digital streaming system and have invested in new speakers, DSP, and room treatment instead, with great results.As a side note I WILL say I'm somewhat sorry that @dkinric didn't respond to my answer to his thread, cause that's where I honestly spoke about what fascinates me about the turntable technology and gave my position).
Found Beatles, Stones, CCR, etc often enough five years ago. Sold them to help fund what I was really looking for, the best music America ever produced, Jazz.You won't find Beatles LPs but you might find Macca's "CHOBA B CCCP" filed under international music and priced accordingly. Doubt that those CCR LPs would be findable today as the market has changed.
You would have loved the record store I in worked at, late 1970's, Ray Avery's Rare Records in Glendale. Ray Avery already made a name for himself as a photographer of Jazz Musicians, had a record store in Glendale that had bonified rare records. Of course the ones Ray Avery focused on were Jazz. He reissued a lot of armed forces [and thus out of copyright] jazz performances, particularly during WWII, transferring transcription discs [he had a specialized turntable for those big discs] to LPs, using gear in the shop. An SME II arm was involved, as I recall. The store had loads of original issue 78s, plenty of Charlie Parker, Slim & Slam, Dizzy, Billie, Bennie and the rest, many in the bins of $1 78s under the LP racks. The really valuable stuff was upstairs. Also a big wall of 45s that Dr Demento raided every other week or so. Stacks of Caruso originals, $10 a throw. Edison cylinders, their players and the needles to go with them your choice of cactus or steel. We were the place to go for Direct to Disc, early Digital [Telarc] and Japanese LPs. There were lots of splendid Verve Japan transfers of their back catalog, also a big trade in used titles, and it seems a looser policy on what could or could not be imported into the US. Lots of the really valuable records were upstairs, sold via blind, international auctions. I remember wrapping up a bunch of records to Australia, stacking and boxing rare 78's to ship overseas. Poo Bah records, Sun Ra's landing pad in Pasadena back then, miraculously had all of Miles Davis' Japanese records of live, very hot, fusion, otherwise unavailable in the states, such as Agharta & Pangaea along with a good representation of the Sun Ra catalog. But if your tastes were more traditional/historical in Jazz, Rare Records was the place to go. All the Hollywood studio pros bought records there.Found Beatles, Stones, CCR, etc often enough five years ago. Sold them to help fund what I was really looking for, the best music America ever produced, Jazz.