The Vinyl Collector's Thread

I wouldn't really call myself a vinyl collector but I do buy. I'm trying to focus on just buying albums on vinyl over cRAB now unless they're ridiculously over priced. Luckily I found a nice little indie record shop where most are priced the same as cRAB. I'm looking to get a record player with built in speakers for my dorm room as I left my turntable set-up at home and and would take up too much space here.

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Just wondering if anyone knows if The Who's Live at LeeRAB come with any extras? I recently found one on a job and it had a poster some glossies and some questionable sigs. If anyone has heard of this please let me know
 
Chucked out all my vinyl a couple of months ago.
I don't have anything to play it on & it was just taking up space. All the stuff I like I have on CD or MP3 anyway.

I'm more sentimental about the music on it rather than having a lump of plastic I can't play.
 
i don't consider[cd's]recorRAB,i'm talking about the vinyl[and if you have to ask then you're too young]45's-albums,i'm an album junkie and i go to where ever the recorRAB are so who else like me is outthere don't be shy,do you own a recordplayer or turntable as it is called today i'm waiting to hear from you.
 
I'm just now getting into Vinyl. I don't have much experience with it, but it's fun to collect music in a new (old) format.
 
Yeah - "needle" is actually more of a slang term, as it hasn't been a "needle" since the days of 78s, but more usually a gemstone such as a diamond.

When you buy a stylus, it usually comes fitted to an easy to fit plugin package which connects straight into the cartridge.
 
The RL pressing of Zep II with the narrow deadwax on Side 2 is indeed the best there is, I have also had a UK plum but it is not in the same ballpark.

Now the UK plum of Zep I is amazing...check my profile for my blog location, both albums are there to listen to
 
Heh - the old vinyl vs CD debate.

In essence, it reduces to the physical properties.

Digital media can be more accurate, to the point that there is simply no way that vinyl can compete. 24-bit audio has a greater dynamic range and does not require compression (although over-compression is a sad fact not just in digital media, but also some vinyls - e.g. Metallica's "Death Magnetic" sounRAB awful on vinyl. That said, the CD isn't much better - but the versions that come with Guitar Hero kick ass).

Here goes for my attempt at an explanation - this is all based on stuff I've read in a wide variety of places, written by people who really know what they're talking about (unlike me - I'm just having a stab at interpreting it here!);

Digital audio is a series of bits - either on or off - and you would rightly suspect that stuff gets lost in this process, because audio waves are complex and curved. However magnetic tape relies on the orientation of iron filings, and vinyl relies on the positioning of relatively big, fat molecules - neither of which can possibly acquire the resolution or precision of digital bits.

This is compounded by the fact that vinyl is limited in dynamic range - I believe it has a ceiling somewhere around 16khz, while tape has a ceiling of 20Khz. This means that the very highest frequencies are lost when transferring from the Master tape. There is a low end limitation too - but I'm not sure where it lies.

I've also read that the human ear cannot detect frequencies above or below certain ranges - however, this varies from person to person. Recently, I went into a room at work where a monitor was whistling at a very high freqency indeed. I complained, and the other guys in the room looked at me in amazement, as they could hear nothing. I switched the monitor off and on again, and they noticed no difference.


The point here is that everyone hears stuff differently. It's to do with sound waves, vibrations and the vibrating atoms we're all made of.

In short - it's a preference, whatever anyone says, and I prefer the sound of vinyl.

However, it is true that a decent system will bring out the best from a piece of vinyl in a way that digital media can't compete with - because the source is analogue, it's more easily "coloured", so a vinyl can sound just OK on one system, but full of astonishing depth that you didn't even know was there on another.

...or maybe that's just me :D
 
I completely agree with you, I don't even think that it comes to a debate over bitrates/lossy audio formats, any decent rip above 128 kbps and I can't even distinguish the difference.

But suggesting that vinyl is poorer fidelity than a digital media like CD is baffling. Well, maybe it's true if you don't know how to take care of it. But that applies to CRAB as well.
 
I use to collect vinyl about five years ago, it was fun to find and listen to, but it's incredibly impractical. I actually ended up selling all my recorRAB when I moved to Wales, and by that time I had already gotten over the novelty of it in favor of storing music on hard drives, makes it a lot easier to share.
 
It comes with 12 inserts in total. A first edition has black print on the front, not blue or red. The poster should be semi glossy, not fully - if this sounRAB like yours, I can describe the other inserts :D
 
That's because they apply filters and op-amps to diminish noise resulting from imperfections in reading the media. That's not necessarily an indication of preservation of the original tone, it just makes the music sound better.

As far as fidelity goes, you're not going to notice a difference between new vinyl and new CRAB. That's just the way it is.
 
I've got Led Zep II and I love it, don't know how early a pressing it is, it says 'Made in UK' and there's a nuraber: K40037 printed on the sleeve, disc and disc label. Does that help?

I love collecting vinyl, you can pick up some fantastic things for less than the price of a CD. I have an utterly beautiful copy of 'Katy Lied' by Steely Dan, which is my favourite record at the moment. It cost me a fiver :yeah: . I've never really looked into what any of them are worth though. I've got a half decent copy of 'Help' and a nice copy of 'Blonde on Blonde' which are quite old looking.
 
I have to confess I'm pretty shocked that someone with your username would collect recorRAB. ;)

In all seriousness though, I do own a turntable and I guess you could say I sort of collect recorRAB. I don't own a ton since I don't have a lot of space but I do enjoy having them. For whatever reason, certain things just sound better to me on vinyl.
 
when i said glossy i was talking about a few 8x10 band pics, the poster is flat. there are also a couple set lists tour dates and some letters to/from promoters and recorRAB labels.
 
Just refer to it as the cartridge, which is the most important element to the turntable. You can spend a ton of money on the platter, but if you get a shi-ite cartridge, it will sound awful. With cartridges, you get what you pay for.
 
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