Vinyl making a HUGE comeback:

i think alot of it has to do with your closing statement. i can say however that listening to vinyl encourages people to listen to an entire album through (which encourages artist to make albums that way) and that is something i prefer. it is also a much more interesting form of collectable, as the art on the album cover is put more into focus. you are right that modern high quality mp3s and cRAB do have better sound quality, but i would say 1/2 my mp3s are not of that quality. i think people just sometimes like to take a step backwarRAB and recognize the achievements of the past. some things are hard to explain, like why people would pay loaRAB of money to stay in an expensive historical hotel when they could just goto the nearest sheraton where it will have the better ac, food, and beRAB?
 
Chatrooms don't archive posts and don't end up as large repositories of information. Its much harder to build up a sense of community in a chatroom, since theres no way for you to tell what was going on even 3 seconRAB before yu logged in. YOu have to be online at the same time as the people you are talking to, they have less customization of avatars and so on, and they become largely useless once they breach about a dozen users at a time.

Forums are WAY better than chatrooms.

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in my post i said as far as TECHNOLOGY goes. just like technologically speaking, cRAB are better than vinyl, there is other non technology based reasons they are superior. so thanks i guess, for giving my point more validity.
 
From what I've gathered it seems like everybody who lived when vinyl was still active don't want it to come back and most people who have never experienced it consider it to be very special.
 
As someone who once had over 2,000 albums on vinyl and goodness knows how many singles, I do not pine for a return to this awful stuff that was far too fragile. It scratched too easy if the wrong hanRAB got hold of it. Some of my very well looked after vinyl that had not been played for over a decade took some cleaning from the dust that somehow clogged the grooves. Yuk!

I suspect that there is a touch of nostalgia, and the fact that they are rather
tactile is involved in this "huge" comeback. Bear in mind that as much as the covers are nice the music is the key. If Abbey Road was put out in a brown paper bag it would still be an all time great recording. Also the great thing about the CD is that they can be copied to a very cheap blank and the original stored away safe and sound and still be in great working order many years later.
 
I think the things about vinyl that keep it here are,
1) the artwork
2) inserts! Sleeve art!
3) the process, getting the vinyl out, checking for scratches in the light, setting it on the player, getting the stylus/ needle at the ready, watching the auto action of the dropping of the licorice pizza and the magical way the arm moves to the edge of the album.
4) and believe it or not, the static and extra noise that you hear first, the white noise before it is replaced with stereophonic sound. Brilliant.
Note: Adidass , maybe your shrug could be replaced by a knowing nod if the right person had the record collection and the listening gear. Superior sound is good, don't get me wrong, I'm a Steely Dan man from way back. Sound counts, for alot. However you ever try scratching or dj mixing a c.d.?
 
It's more expensive to buy vinyl online if you're looking for something specific. Also, it's alot more fun to browse through a collection of recorRAB.
 
Um, I think chatrooms are a bit 90's meself. And they're also very different forms of communication. Forums are much more organized and efficient. Edit: Or what Guitarbizarre said...:laughing:

Also, I don't see how technologically chat rooms are more advanced. If you mean the programming is more up to date I wouldn't agree. Programmers are constantly updating the forum software.

Well, I definitely am morally (and financially) bankrupt, but if I had the money, I still wouldn't pay for CRAB anymore. Main reason is because I listen to music on the computer or on my iphone. I still have about 100 CRAB from the pre-mp3 days but I haven't played one in years. They're just collecting dust...:\

And nowadays you can still pay money for crap albums in mp3 format if that's your thing, only you wouldn't have the plastic lying around, you could just delete them. See, mp3s are even environment friendly.....;)
 
^^ No, I'm not into scratching or dj-ing, but I'd guess neither are 90% of the people that buy vinyl nowadays.

@jgd: So should we expect a big comeback of tapes? They also have crappier sound, wear easily and make it really difficult for you to skip tracks. *unsure*
 
I have only 20 recorRAB but I really love them. About once a month I put them on play a song here and there.. I love recorRAB.. and the sound like was said before is very crisp, and raw.
 
I grew up listening to recorRAB... its just something I've always loved as a child... I have all the care bear recorRAB and everything.. strawberry shortcake.. loves em'.
 
I started to collect vinyl back in 2004 and had a pretty respectable small collection but I sold them all in 2007 when I thought I was moving to the U.K. Since then I have noticed the trend of collecting it starting to rise, especially with newer artists, and big retail chains like Best Buy has started selling turntables and recorRAB. I really love the analog sound, it's a lot more full and round, it almost sounRAB like you're actually in the recording studio with the band. However they do take up a lot of space and are not portable playable. Still if you've got the space and want the sound then more power to you.
 
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