Dave Plowman (News) said:
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Richard Robinson wrote:
I think so. Maybe they vary ... I finally got rid of some of my old vinyl
last year.
Bad timing with the latest vinyl 'revival' ;-)
I don't think so, I'm happy. Insofar as it's an issue of quality, I find
44.1k 16bit stereo is good enough for my 60+yearold ears (or if it isn't, I
don't miss what I never had before. I'll settle for it), and a lot of the
rest seems to be a Fashion Thing, which never bothered me much.
(There is a remainder - I have a friend who likes little-known rock bands,
who use their gigs to sell very expensive vinyl, which she likes to buy by
way of keeping her favourite bands viable. Kind of like crowd-funding but
with a souvenir. That bit seems like a resaonable idea and I approve of it,
but it's not what happens in my musical world; nor could I afford it).
Although I'm told many new buyers never actually play them. Purely for
display.
I was brought up in the world of 'classical', and still reckon music is for
the ears, not the eyes. Stamp-collecting of sleeves is Someone Else's
Problem.
I've got one pal who 'got rid' of vinyl not long after CD came out. Then
went back to it after reading of a revival some years ago. Then got rid of
it again, with everything on his computer. And is now going to revive it
once more.
Weird.
Perhaps I'm lucky in being too mean to discard something that still works
here. Still got working 1/4" tape, as well as LP.
I was orginally driven into digitising by getting upset at the way my 20yo
cassettes were becoming unplayable. And I've ended up with everything on a
hard disk and all visible in one big list (played via a raspberry pi running
MPD, thanks to help here last year. I still haven't found the perfect
client, but gmpc works well enough). As I said, I'm happy.
I didn't get rid of all the vinyl, I kept the ones with sleevenotes
containing info I might possibly want but couldn't face typing up. They're
under a bed upstairs, because that's the only reason for keeping them (plus
sentiment, in a few cases). I certainly don't intend to keep a deck running.
--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem
My email address is at
http://www.qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html