Vinyl isn't dead yet...

killsaly wrote:
http://www.factmag.com/2016/08/10/vinyl-buyers-lonely-introverts/

I will say I didn't need an article to tell me that, most people in record stores come in single.

I was in Frederick MD earlier today… saw three record stores within a couple of blocks of each other… I only managed to go into one cause I had my kids with me..still managed to pick up 20 records.. I'm a maniac.

Joe's opens tomorrow.

About time!  Can't wait to hit them up at lunch time and come out empty-handed.

cc: hutch


Joseph R. Paradise
Just now ·

Just priced down a stack of Reggae and a stack of Hip-Hop from the rare section. It's all out on the floor.

Yada wrote:
cc: hutch


Joseph R. Paradise
Just now ·

Just priced down a stack of Reggae and a stack of Hip-Hop from the rare section. It's all out on the floor.

well I may go check it out soon.. you know i can't get enough vinyl

Joe's record paradise reopening party info:

Details
We are having our Grand Reopening on Saturday the 24th and everyone is welcome. There will be Food from Anabel's food truck at an almost free cost(subsidized by Joe's) and 7 Locks Brewery from Rockville will have a table with some tasty treats and also some coffee from the local spot Bump n' Grind. Along with that there will be several free raffles with prizes from the 9:30 Club, the Fillmore Silver Spring and from Joe's itself(swag including pint glasses which are back, stickers, chip clips, CD books, gift certificates, etc).

All to the sounds of DJs Damu The Fudgemunk and maybe even myself(Johnson).

We hope to see you there!

please enlighten me - what's the diff between o.p. and o.g. and what does o.g. stand for?

sad to miss the record fair.. lately it seems i miss it every time…


kids…

There's an article in December's Hi-Fi News and Record Review called "Vinyl: On Borrowed Time?" A few choice quotes from vinyl cutting engineer Tim Young:

"[Lathe maker] Neumann no longer makes any cutting equipment, or any spare parts. They don't do repairs. the cutter head is cooled with helium, but if you blow one by overloading the coils you have to find one of the one-man-band operations that will do you a repair job by hand and pay at least £5000 for the work."

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"Ortofon still makes player cartridges, of course, but nothing for cutting. In fact all the original companies making cutting equipment have ceased."

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"Really it's idiocy that with all the new interest in vinyl, the people now cutting don't get together as a consortium to encourage the manufacture of a new lathe. But it would need co-operation and this is a cut-throat business. You could describe it as the most brutal manifestation of capitalism. So co-operation hasn't happened."

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Almost all LPs are now cut from digital files, rather than original analogue masters. Tim Young puts the digital figure at 95% or more.

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"What really annoys me is the rubbish being written about vinyl in the online forums, especially in the US. One of the worst examples is when some Joe Schmo hooks up a turntable to a computer, looks at waveforms and says what sounds good or bad. As they say, a little learning is a dangerous thing."

yup.. i think new vinyl is often a fools errand…

but it depends.. of course underworld's new album was recorded digitally.. duh.. but the lp is not brickwalled like the cd which causes ear fatigue..

sidehatch wrote:
^ cool…but don't have $500 to drop

this is what I was looking at…ya know as it has to be a display piece too if it's going to be in the family room

That will set me back about $300

Did you get it at Crate & Barrel?

http://www.crateandbarrel.com/orbit-plus-turntable-with-built-in-preamp/s262283

Bethesda ~1940. The look on the clerk's face  :D.

Justin wrote:


Bethesda ~1940. The look on the clerk's face  :D.

I picture Julian wearing his mink to go record shopping

I think having that look is a part of your application for working at a record store
utter disdain for your customers

sidehatch wrote:

Justin wrote:


Bethesda ~1940. The look on the clerk's face  :D.

I picture Julian wearing his mink to go record shopping

I think having that look is a part of your application for working at a record store
utter disdain for your customers

geez
we look like a bunch of street rats and hobos compared to those people…

I think there is something deeper going on with the record clerk

the new Third Man Records Vault release will be Margo Price live at the Hamilton….

This week's episode of the Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast tells the story of how a middle-aged man rediscovers himself when he ditches digital music, and goes full on analog. 

https://www.20k.org/episodes-1/2016/11/7/cbe3wndc518zc9sf3b79qdmzhqwy0a