0:26 - Maybe it's just because I'm an old nerd (comparatively), but I gave a damn. I was actually kind of wondering if it was intentional for some reason, it was so obvious, but I can't really see why it would be.
God what a misrepresentation of vinyl as a medium you have these hipster kids calling LP's "vinyls" and then playing them on the worlds crappiest turntables, and saying the surface noise is good. Surface noise is not a defiening quality of vinyl records CLEAN YOUR RECORDS and STYLUS!
h3ll0 I've taken to 78s instead, acoustic playback of course. The surface noise is a feature of having 250 or so grams of weight pressing down in the groove. Much more nostalgic than the crystal clear 33s I've collected over the years.
Alex Paulsen I know that 78's by their nature are noisey because of the shellac, however when people say "it is nice to have that cracking sound like your by a fire" it is because the record or stylus is dirty. Surface noise isn't as noticeable on 78's for me because generally the recording quality is not great and has distortion and noise already in the signal.
h3ll0 Surface noise on a 78 can depend on a number of things I've discovered. Low-volume units have a more audible "scratching tone", especially true when played on a horn gramophone without the horn. Electric players will point out every last little defect in the records. But you're right, they shouldn't crackle, an acoustic gramophone should have a new needle for each record at the very least, preferably a new needle per each side played.
I love to see young people enjoying records. If you want to refer to them as we did in the1960s and 70s, it's 'records' or' LPs' they were never referred to as 'vinyls', the material that it was made from. Just as you don't call CDs 'plastics' or mp3s as 'digitals'.
JAZZ MAN i like the movement, but those dang Crosley turntables are carving all their new LPs to shreds. You can get a great sounding TT for less than most Crosleys. The U-Turn Orbit- $150. Avoid Crosley if you want your LPs to last. Its not a subjective thing, they are made to look retro, but that kinda retro player also carved up Albums, which is why so much old vinyl is wrecked, and good vintage commands a high price.
Daren Redman I remember the old consoles. Ours had a sliding door which fascinated me at the time.I used to wonder where the door went to. Feeling inside revealed that it was thin wooden strips glued to cloth. On the tone arm was a little tab with 'LP' for long play and the other side of the tab when it was turned said '78' for the old 78 records. I remember it had a great sound.
Aside from the one kid in this video, I don't think, or at least I've never heard anyone refer to their records as "vinyls, the term is not intended to be used in plural form. However people have referred to their records as "vinyl" for years now. I'm not 100% positive how and where the term originated, but I want to say that it started sometime in the 80's, maybe even the late 70's with the hip hop movement, probably back when hip-hop was still in its infancy. It's slang, kind of like saying "hey let's go dig for some vinyl later. I've been collecting records for years and I use the term sometimes myself, but I also call them records and LP's as well. I just wanted to provide some clarification on the term that's all. It's not a hipster thing or word. Cheers!
Where is your proof?! Granted, I don’t care for Crosleys either, but that’s just because they are obviously very poorly made, but how do they ruin records? Sounds like something you regurgitated from a forum. If you’re going to say something, have
+froggatt24 I'm not one of those kids that's for sure,My current setup is a 1974 Victor Direct Drive JL-B41 Weighs over 23 Pounds and Sansui AU-G33X Integrated Amp and Yamaha NS-45 Speakers. Not saying that my setup are amazing or anything but it certainly not a Crosley junk record destroyer stuff. These Kids needs some proper guru,Michael Fremer is one of them.
Barebare kun exactly, nice setup by the way Mines a Pro-Ject debut carbon turntable with a cork mat and a hitachi SR-603 1976 integrated amplifier and mission speakers
That is actually my first setup,going almost completely vintage on my equipment was the only way for to get into this hobby early last year. It's not a cheap hobby that's for sure but also one of the most pleasant hobby of all! Did you know that I drawn into the analog world because that one tube system I walked past,the sound coming of it I thought a Jazz band playing live next to me!
+Barebare kun haha that's great, tube amps definatly do sound excellent, my guitar amplifier is all tube as it's just such a better sound and it definatly isn't a cheap hobby haha I love analog too, when I'm recording a song I never do it onto digital, always tape it's less harsh sounding to me
Go ahead, use a crosley. Once you ruin your records, it makes mine worth slightly more.
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there's some logic there and that's what I'm pleased about as well. but hte problem is much of that nail and groove damage done won't be visible to a potential buyer until you play it!
Well, I'll be damned. crosleys really dont ruin your records i have had a crosley knockoff for a couple of years and all my records are still perfectly fine
For the record ... you are a stuck up @###. Not all people are "audiophiles" or can in fact afford a serious turntable. Relax, enjoy the fact that the younger generation is able to appreciate a format that I grew up with. Hell man, maybe one day their system will put you to shame and they will be commenting at your cheap "chinese system" .... Your comment was not called for !!!!!!
Aside from the cover/artwork and being a collectors piece, it's truly in the sound of vinyl that the magic lies.. It's been proven that music on vinyl can be more moving and enjoyable due to the frequencies you can hear and actually feel while listening to a record. Frequencies you usually can't hear on CD or MP3 due to compression.. Long live Vinyl!
I love how all the audiophiles are criticizing all the kids with Crossleys, but they forget that all the kids in the 60’s and 70’s also used to play their records on suitcase record players, so what’s the difference? I think it’s great to see more kids getting into vinyl. And don’t worry they will figure out that a Crossley isn’t the best, it’s just a start.
Some of my mates at school have also gotten into records, one of them actually went out to a record shop one day with me because he had nothing else to do, dude came out with "Jumalten Aika" by Moonsorrow and Burzum's "Hvis Lyset Tar Oss" and went out and found his mom's old Pioneer-deck from his garage. It's great when music can bring people together like this.
+Jeremy Breneman Because all the labels which you would use, Record, LP etc. all can refer to any other format, Vinyl is more specific. I recently called up the shipping company because I was having trouble tracking by order and they asked me what I had ordered to find it, when I said it was a record the person thought I had ordered a CD, I had to clarify Vinyl.
For anyone interested in getting their first turntable here's some friendly advice, stay away from cheap brands like Crosley as they will damage your records. At the very least go for the Audio Technica AT-LP60 or if you have a bit more cash to spare go for the Pro-ject Debut Carbon.
Chinmay the pro ject debut is $300, the atlp60 is $100, the difference between those is a giant fucking step, do you assume people have that type of money to spend on something they dont even know if they like yet
I'm a 46 year old guy getting into listening to records again in the last 3 months or so. I spent so many hours spent laying on my bed as a teen, big fat 80's headphones on, album cover in hand, listening to my mom's great eclectic record collection. Now she's given me most of that in the last year or so, along with all the ones I've collected since I was a teenager, I have plenty of cool stuff to listen to and experience again or for the first time!
Old fart here! I still have my "vinyls" from 1961 when I got out of high school. We called them "LP's" though! Still have a player and still have my huge, huge and heavy speakers I bought while in Vietnam!!! Whoa!! And, I enjoy all of them and talk about memories!!! Whew! Thanks a lot for the video! Great job! Best of luck!
Good doc in some areas.... 1. It takes a LONG time to make a good album. A week my ass. 2. Turntable. It's called a turntable, not vinyl player, hipster. 3. Vinyl, not vinyls. You don't say sheeps do you? 4. Handle your records properly and gently, and not let them fall into the sleeve like that. That could easily damage them. 5. Clean that needle man. Dirt buildup can scratch that record easily. Thanks for reading. I would recommend redoing this doc with people who actually know what they're talking about. (Besides the record store guy, he was smart.)
Don't be discouraged by these grumpy old people, young hipsters but do follow everything that they mentioned because they are correct about everything they said except "vinyls" . It's incorrect English but it's cool new milennial slang.
To throw something positive in among all the Crosley comments, I just wanted to add in that on the filmmaking side you guys actually did a great job producing this doc. Super clean interview audio, lots of good b-roll, some rack-focus, properly exposed shots. If this was made by high school students, as your account description says, you did a great job!
As a filmmaker and record collector, I would agree wholeheartedly. The production value here is excellent, as is the narrative story that is created. Record playing has long been a social activity, and your coverage of that aspect reminded me that is was that way for me as well. Back in the 60s when portable record players abounded, kids used to tote their records to each others' houses, sometimes after school. Often, they would bring singles with them in the form of 45s, and they even had a special carry case that held them. This also explains why so many records have peoples names written on the record label and often on the album cover. They wanted to make sure when it was time to go home, that they had their copy with them, and had proof that it was theirs.
Great video, makes me happy to see how many younger people enjoy records. It doesn’t matter where or how they play their records, as long as they enjoy it :)
Then that's why half of the plants shut down? You hear all the pressing owners saying I just started up after 30 years of it being shut off? I'm the only one if my group of best friends that owns records and a record player. Yes it's been here for a long ass time but to the new gen is just finding it out.
Eyewanders Foto There's a difference between shelling out a boat load of money and quality. There are cheap, quality record players out there and it's about not saying vinyl player, that's not even proper grammar, turntable or record player
Crosley sucks I thought a lot of the vinyls I had were too scratched or rough but them on a technics turntable and no problem with sound or playback what so ever
funny how everybody is goin nuts in the comments. i know what you all are sayin, and sure you are right most the time, but honestly, i am happy to see the younger generation to get into vinyl. and they didnt seem too be be that hipster-ish imo. i am happy about every person that gives vinyl a try and maybe hold this love for life...like i did 16 years ago. i became a vinyl nerd (meant positive) and dig for the grails right now, and i am happy about this development. and i am sure they will get better soundsystems etc, when the time is right. and last but not least itz cool to see every younger person that doesnt listen to the crap in the radio!! so come on, let them live ;)
Around 8-minutes the guy says no one has cassette . How did he get that ? I use three. Plus I use about thirty open reel. I only got two turntables - one for each ear
I'm a 40-something HipHop head and vinyl never went away for us...in fact it is the backbone of HipHop music with the DJ's which we call "turntablists". And not just with HipHop but vinyl records have been the prevailing method for playing music in the clubs regardless of the music genre, and not just old dusty records but new releases and re-presses. Every year since like 1990-something there is always someone talking about either remembering when records were popular or that they are becoming popular again. In my city we have record stores that have been in business for decades even while CD and cassette tape shops were closing down. Records never really went anywhere.
Spending hours looking through the racks in a record shop is way to much fun. Owners seem more talkative than places that do CDs. The artwork is the perfect size and the process of entry getting out the record, placing it on the platter and setting it all up to just sit and chill. Records hold my focus so much more than a cd album.
When I see a big wall of vinyls. When I play vinyls. What the? First the word vinyl is like the word moose. I didn't see a bunch of mooses in the country I saw a bunch of moose. Second I don't remember anyone calling them vinyl. You called them records or maybe LP's. You went to the store and picked up a new (record) album. And third you are not getting "the vinyl experience" when you are playing it on a POS Crosley. If you don't want to get something vintage you can get decent turntables like the U-Turn Orbit for $179. You can get a good Pro-ject for $399.
Back in my day, everyone, and I mean EVERYONE had a stereo system in the main room of their house. Normally surrounded by milk crates or fruit crates full of LPs ("LP" stands for "Long Playing"). I have a collection of around 2000 records and each one has been taken cared for very well so they will play flawlessly for decades to come. Yes, I have many records that are very rare for one reason or another and are quite valuable. But I don't ever see myself selling those. I'm not really sure why, I just know it, you know? Nothing beats the experience of listening to music on a record. I applaud the young generation's return to vinyl and hope they will continue to keep this format alive! The fact that I was a disc jockey at a radio station for several years - just before CDs came into being - is part of why I love them so much. We used to "play records" on the radio. Long before computers and digital music files.
I just love the fact that some of the "collectors" featured in this film are using those crappy Crosley's, that will most-likely ruin their collections (in the long run). Do yourselves a favor & get a good (possibly vintage) turntable.
If I hear one more millennial speak of how cool it is to listen to "vinyls" and to collect them and how much they want to be part of that culture I am going to barf. They are records, LSs, EPs or 7"s. And the people who say that the sound quality is amazing, while showing how they play records on the turntable equivalent of iPod headphones. Gah I'm going to crawl back into my cave where these kids haven't been born yet.
I think its great that these kids are getting into vinyl. But I think that it would really pay off in the long run for them to to some research and save up and get a good record player
Think of an Lp as a barren field in agriculture in circular form. You see lots of V-shaped furrows as you drive by it. The needle drops into those furrow and picks up the L and R channels from both sides of that V. Mp3s are binary representations of the recording session. An Lp IS the actual recording.
It's not about nostalgia and reliving the past. Stop saying that! It's about listening to, enjoying and collecting music. And all these kids with their Crosleys and "vinyls" talking about how much they love surface noise make me wanna throw up.
An album allows the listener to fall in love. In love with a co listener, or the warmth of the entire package. A record can take you back to a time and place.....music is of the gods.
If you buy a Crosley you don't deserve records! You are not a music lover, you don't listen... Just collect them, hang it on your wall but don't listen to it trough a worthless peace of cr** like a Crrrrrrosley! Buy a good second hand player like a seventies Thorens or a Sixties Dual a nice amp Kenwood or Marantz and a pair of good speakers and really learn to listen to the rich sound SOME vinyl records CAN have.
I'm old school and I think it's the coolest thing in the whole world that these young kids call them "vinyls" although us older folk clearly understand that the plural of vinyl is vinyl. Lighten up old snobby records snobs. Let the kids have their thing. I think the term "vinyls" is totally awesome. Keep rockin youngins!!!!!
I think these kids get it. Whether they want to call them vinyls or records means nothing. Whether they play their vinyl on a Crosley or a Technics means nothing. The record player I used to play my records on 55 years ago I'm sure was harder on my "vinyl's" then a modern Crosley. I applaud these young people. My Grandfathers records were shaped like a cup and played back with a steel needle the size of a 3 penny nail and I never heard him insult anyone who was interested in them. I say play them until their wore out and buy some more. They're your vinyls and it's your music. Enjoy it while you're young.
Carlos Vásquez Sort of, most of the soundtrack in this film was based heavily off of classic rock songs such as Breathe, Roundabout, and Babe I'm Gonna Leave You. They have the same chords, just different variations of effects.
Digital is a sound. Vinyl is an experience. And we sadly forgot that for a time. Props to millennials and gen Z for realizing that convenience didn't have to be a part of that process
I'm so glad the younger generation is finally getting it...music is analog and vinyl is the highest representation of the analog sound! Now the next real treat for these young folks is when they actually can afford to play their vinyl on a real turntable thru a higher quality system. I'm not talking about a mega dollar audiophile systems but a something like a great vintage system. These are affordable, very easy to put together, and there is an abundance of this equipment out there for cheap. Remember when this stuff was made in the 70's and early 80's vinyl was king and as such the equipment was optimize to play vinyl and to a lesser part tape. And for all you that think these kids are stupid because they are using Crosley record players give them a break! They don't know any better. This generation didn't have the luxury to grow up in the era of the "Stereo Showroom Palaces" such as Pacific Stereo, West Coast Stereo, Cal Hi Fi, The Good Guys and the many little independant Hi Fi audio shops. Not only where these the places you went to look at and purchase audio equipment but to a greater extent you went there to get educated on how to reproduce good sound in your home. Those salesman were not only salesmen they were teachers and were more that glad to impart their knowledge on you on your way to audio nirvana!
I'm 14 years old, and when I bought a record player from the thrift store, my dad said, "that's just like the one I had as a kid." The lint on the record needle makes the records sound grungy. It muffles the sound. You get better sound with a clean stylus. Warped vinyl sounds well...warped.
Terrible narrator. And collecting vinyl makes absolutely no sense unless you have a decent system to play them on. Throw those dam crosleys in the trash.
Hot tip for the kids, the plural of vinyl is vinyl not vinyls and a "vinyl player" is a turntable or record player. Also, don't use a Crosley as your main player, it's alright to play on Crosley's sometimes but long term they'll warp your records.
Please, please, please buy a decent turntable like a Pro-Ject, Music hall or Rega. All three start under $500 and will not destroy your expensive records like the cheap plastic ones I'm seeing all young people buying.
Yes exactly. And make sure when you buy a decent turntable that it is setup correctly and the tracking force and anti skate is setup correctly for the cartridge being used.
+Ed Padden My Sony was $25 off eBait - PS T2. Just have to know what is what. My Sony STR-V5 was $25, too. So, was the Sony cassette TC-K555, 3-head - $25. I was never a Sony freak, but it's good stuff
If you can't afford a decent turntable, YOU CAN'T AFFORD RECORD COLLECTING. Even a small collection of records is going to cost a few hundred dollars, whether you're buying brand new pressings or used classic LPs. Audiofiles spend thousands of dollars for marginal (or imaginary) improvements in sound quality, but even a regular record collector is going to end up spending hundreds of dollars on records. $500 won't even fill one cube of an IKEA Kallax shelf. That doesn't mean you can't get good value for money. You can get a Stanton T92USB for $240 (Stanton T series tables are generally DJ setups with straight tonearms for scratching, but the T92 has a home listener-style S-shaped arm for better sound quality). You'll need speakers, but if you already have a TV soundbar, you can plug the turntable into it. Already you have better sound and build quality than a Crosley for not that much more money, plus you're not ruining your records. It's certainly not audiophile quality, but it's serviceable. Yet another is the Audio Technica LP120USB for $300. Another very affordable, yet decent, turntable is a U-Turn Orbit Basic for about $180 ($250 with a built-in preamp like the Stanton or AT). You can get decent inexpensive powered speakers like Edifier R1280Ts for $100. Again, not an audiophile setup, but a huge step up from a Crosley. Or, if you do your research and have some patience (which you should anyway, if you plan on going hunting for desirable records), you can find great vintage equipment for cheap. And if you can solder, you can acquire and fix broken vintage equipment for almost free.
Jeremy Stillwell No he raises good points, my current record collection of 8 is worth over $200, it is a very expensive hobby, but it shouldnt deter those who want to genuinely have a go at it
Something else a guy said once is that you can own a Van Halen II album. Someone can take it and mix it up with 25 other Van Halen II albums. Given a few minutes to look through them you can probably accurately pick out which copy is your copy lol. Especially with a lot of used lps. The point he was making was that each one can be so unique, have is only qualities on the cover and vinyl itself, not to mention different pressing. Only you know that the upper left corner on the back of the gatefold has an ever so slight wear mark on your copy lol. Collecting and listening to vinyl takes something as powerful as music and make is more personal and more tangible.
I grew up with records and have hated the crackles and pops. Longed for the clean sound. I was thankful for that sound when the CD came out. It wasn't until my late 20's that I went to a club and I seen that they were playing records and the sound was so much more in depth than the CD was. I never knew from my mother that there was a way to clean a record as not to hear all these clicks and pops. Once I learned how to clean and clean the stylus that I realized what a record had to offer. I was born in 1970. I never knew how good they could sound if properly cleaned.
Regarding the Crosleys destroying records: This is nothing new. We always had record players and turntables that were "vinyl killers" that destroyed records. During the most recent previous generation, in the early 1980s, mainstream people were settling for crappy players sold at the Walmarts and K-marts. These had horrible ceramic cartridges which dug into the grooves of records and carved chunks of material out of grooves with every play. At the same time, the Walmarts & Kmarts were selling crappy 45-RPM singles made by Columbia, A&M, and related labels, that were made of the cheapest polystyrene. Playing styrene records on these crappy Walmart players would totally shred the records. Then the record industry started pushing CDs, which the public flocked to in droves. Hmm... So they bought the cheapest record players, threw those out along with the crappy records, then paid a fortune for the first generation CD players & CDs, which are now considered to be crap and worthless. And now the Crosleys are taking over. And the cycle continues.....
ArtifactAttic I have two record players, an ION Usb turntable, which I use for obvious reasons, and does 33rpm, and 45rpm. I also have a mid 60s entry model Califone with a ceramic needle, which I like a lot. It can do 33, 45, 78, and strangely enough, 16rpm speeds, as well as base and treble control, which is really nice. It doesn't have a 78 stylus, though, which is disappointing, because every time I play a 78, I know I'm *destroying* that poor little stylus.
Some of those first generation CDs really are worthless, because they were poorly mastered and some had a manufacturing defect that caused the data to become corrupted.
I love vinyl. I had about 1000 albums at my mothers house. My parents redid the up stairs and threw them all away. I started my collection again. I’m on 530 albums now. Way more expensive now
I got my first record player back in the mid 90s when I was around 12 years old. It was a big beast of a machine from the 70s and I loved it, using it constantly until it finally died around 10 years ago. At the time I got it, I just thought records were cool and in hindsight I think that's what started my love of all things old school.
I'm 53, I've been collecting vinyl since I was ten, and everything about this video annoys me from start to finish. How can they say that vinyl sounds better when they're playing records on a Crosley? And does anybody in this video know about cleaning a stylus, overhang or anything? Collectors like myself have never gone away, and this great multitude of "hipsters" are destroying a lot of records. But the kids are where the money's at, and that's what it's all about.
Hmmm.. well I just went to Ford's web site and built a 2014 Edge. It has a CD player as standard equipment - so yes Ford still has CD players in their cars.
xArrivalx I cared enough to verify some of the statements made in this video. If you watched the video, a person stated that Ford does not sell CD players in their cars anymore. It seemed to me it was unlikely. Also, I have a 2010 Ford truck with a CD player and wondered whether it was true or not. Turns out it is not true. If where you were going with your question is that I am a vinyl hater - nope. I have 2 turntables and over 600 LPs. And yes, I buy new vinyl as well as collecting used, so I am supporting the current resurgence. How about you?
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Vinyls, on the vinyl... got to love it! And who cares what people play it on. Most people do not care about sound quality, they just want to listen to music. If a Crosley gets you into records then its done a good job. People always start with junk and upgrade. Us older people, think about the junk we started with in the 70s and 80s! Stop being a snob. While LPs are on the rise and CDs are on the down side of sales its not even a fraction of what sales used to be.
Who cares if they have a cheap record player? What matters is that they enjoy it! I bought one for $45 (It was on sale for 40% off, orginaliy being $80-$90) and it works great! there's a bit of noise in the back, but I just ignore that and enjoy my music (Twenty One Pilots, Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, etc.) on it. Music is universal. It doesn't matter if you buy a $20 guitar from your local music store or a $1,000 guitar from the professionals. You're making music, using it and loving it.
6:19 "Older music is made on vinyls" - okay, she's very young so I''d like to give her a little slack, but I mostly want to give her a little SLAP. Older music was made in a studio with a tape recorder, microphones and a mixing board so every element sounds perfectly blended together, you clod. It's not made on a record, whose material is vinyl. Let me make another example of not calling an object after the material from which it's made. Superheroes wear garments called capes which are usually made out of silk. Superheroes do not wear silks. Are you with me so far? This documentary is cracking me up. It almost makes me think these kids are putting us on.
They have those "Croley" plastic crap. Now I understand why they say "vinyls" and "vinyl player" hahahaha. For the same price of that pieces of crap you can get better turntables. I think they don't have idea what they're using, but as they jumped from mp3 to "vinyls" is understadable that they don't have idea how to play a vinyl record properly and get the best of it.
so many things wrong with this 0:26 There's too much dust on the stylus . Get a zerodust or at least a stylus brush. 1:42 Why do you have a crosley. They are terrible. And holy cow, that vinyl is warped. 2:30 They're called turntables, not vinyl players. Please call them their proper name. 2:52 Store the records upright, not stacked on top of each other. they will get warped. 2:58 Another Crosley?! 3:01 Please call them records or LPs, not vinyls. 3:28 Please get better record sleeves. Those leave paper flakes on the record surface and they can easily scratch your record. 6:31 Its not the speakers that are creating static. Thats static on the record its self. Get a zerostat. But great vid none the less.
+JonnyInfinite That's only because they are "portable". It was easier to take your music with you on cassette tape than to try and install a turntable in your vehicle. Otherwise the sound quality of cassette tape is inferior to that of vinyl records.
+billyboi57 depends on the deck, you can get some incredible sound from a quality player. And not to mention chromium dioxide cassettes which can rival vinyl for fidelity. Vinyl was on the wane already before CD came along
+JonnyInfinite yes I agree. I have some cassette tapes that sound even better than vinyl. It just depends on the cassette deck and condition of the tape.
Every comment on this is so hateful. Not all "young people" go around buying records and putting them on terrible crosleys. I'm twenty and have a Dual 510 with an ortofon 2m Red and a U-Turn orbit with an At-95. Yes I clean my records with the spinbrush. Yes I have a dedicated brush that I use to take dust off every time I play. No I don't touch the playing service. I also happen to have a very in-depth knowledge of audio equipment and can assure my setup is very well put together. And who cares if some people call them vinyl? So what? Tired of everyone bashing youth for getting into a hobby. Although hipsters that post nice records on crosleys make me cringe
Does anyone else just get pissed off at the sight of a crosley
Yes they're crap!
yes
they look good and their cheap but they sound like shit and destroy your records
Yep, I bought a Crosley a few years ago and I regret it. My records sounded like AM radio.
Watch - there might be a resurgence of AM radio
Yes!
:26 did the dust bother anyone else?
+BigBlueOnYT YES!
+BigBlueOnYT Not sure how that needle stayed in the groove...
Yes it did !!!!!
I noticed it and it's annoying. They need to learn how to clean the records and keep track needle clean
0:26 - Maybe it's just because I'm an old nerd (comparatively), but I gave a damn. I was actually kind of wondering if it was intentional for some reason, it was so obvious, but I can't really see why it would be.
God what a misrepresentation of vinyl as a medium you have these hipster kids calling LP's "vinyls" and then playing them on the worlds crappiest turntables, and saying the surface noise is good.
Surface noise is not a defiening quality of vinyl records CLEAN YOUR RECORDS and STYLUS!
h3ll0 I've taken to 78s instead, acoustic playback of course. The surface noise is a feature of having 250 or so grams of weight pressing down in the groove. Much more nostalgic than the crystal clear 33s I've collected over the years.
Alex Paulsen I know that 78's by their nature are noisey because of the shellac, however when people say "it is nice to have that cracking sound like your by a fire" it is because the record or stylus is dirty. Surface noise isn't as noticeable on 78's for me because generally the recording quality is not great and has distortion and noise already in the signal.
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Surface noise on a 78 can depend on a number of things I've discovered. Low-volume units have a more audible "scratching tone", especially true when played on a horn gramophone without the horn. Electric players will point out every last little defect in the records. But you're right, they shouldn't crackle, an acoustic gramophone should have a new needle for each record at the very least, preferably a new needle per each side played.
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h3ll0 haha agreed! There was like an entire lint ball on his stylus....
I love to see young people enjoying records. If you want to refer to them as we did in the1960s and 70s, it's 'records' or' LPs' they were never referred to as 'vinyls', the material that it was made from. Just as you don't call CDs 'plastics' or mp3s as 'digitals'.
JAZZ MAN i like the movement, but those dang Crosley turntables are carving all their new LPs to shreds. You can get a great sounding TT for less than most Crosleys. The U-Turn Orbit- $150. Avoid Crosley if you want your LPs to last. Its not a subjective thing, they are made to look retro, but that kinda retro player also carved up Albums, which is why so much old vinyl is wrecked, and good vintage commands a high price.
bcdhifi
yupyupyup....i run a Music Hall MMF 7.1 Thru an NAD Pre, and Denon Power amp out to me big JBLs....mmmm, Tasty!
JAZZ MAN What does LP and EP stand for again?
Daren Redman I remember the old consoles. Ours had a sliding door which fascinated me at the time.I used to wonder where the door went to. Feeling inside revealed that it was thin wooden strips glued to cloth. On the tone arm was a little tab with 'LP' for long play and the other side of the tab when it was turned said '78' for the old 78 records. I remember it had a great sound.
Aside from the one kid in this video, I don't think, or at least I've never heard anyone refer to their records as "vinyls, the term is not intended to be used in plural form. However people have referred to their records as "vinyl" for years now. I'm not 100% positive how and where the term originated, but I want to say that it started sometime in the 80's, maybe even the late 70's with the hip hop movement, probably back when hip-hop was still in its infancy. It's slang, kind of like saying "hey let's go dig for some vinyl later. I've been collecting records for years and I use the term sometimes myself, but I also call them records and LP's as well. I just wanted to provide some clarification on the term that's all. It's not a hipster thing or word. Cheers!
If your girlfriend buys you a Crosley, she doesn't love you.
Nathan Muttitt I got 2 !!!!
Why would you do that?
wheres your proof?
+Anthony Mangano wheres the proof?
Where is your proof?!
Granted, I don’t care for Crosleys either, but that’s just because they are obviously very poorly made, but how do they ruin records? Sounds like something you regurgitated from a forum.
If you’re going to say something, have
Every time they say "vinyls" my soul dies a little.
too many crosleys in this video
I know it's so annoying, kids on this video are buying it because they think it's cool to have one not because of the sound.
+froggatt24
I'm not one of those kids that's for sure,My current setup is a 1974 Victor Direct Drive JL-B41 Weighs over 23 Pounds and Sansui AU-G33X Integrated Amp and Yamaha NS-45 Speakers.
Not saying that my setup are amazing or anything but it certainly not a Crosley junk record destroyer stuff.
These Kids needs some proper guru,Michael Fremer is one of them.
Barebare kun exactly, nice setup by the way
Mines a Pro-Ject debut carbon turntable with a cork mat and a hitachi SR-603 1976 integrated amplifier and mission speakers
That is actually my first setup,going almost completely vintage on my equipment was the only way for to get into this hobby early last year.
It's not a cheap hobby that's for sure but also one of the most pleasant hobby of all!
Did you know that I drawn into the analog world because that one tube system I walked past,the sound coming of it I thought a Jazz band playing live next to me!
+Barebare kun haha that's great, tube amps definatly do sound excellent, my guitar amplifier is all tube as it's just such a better sound
and it definatly isn't a cheap hobby haha
I love analog too, when I'm recording a song I never do it onto digital, always tape
it's less harsh sounding to me
They are RECORDS..and you play them on a TURNTABLE....
THANK YOU. I got SO tired of them calling records vinyl. I wanted to slap them!
But if you notice, they're playing their VINYLS on a RECORD PLAYER. As a collector of records for over 40 years now, i'm confused!!!
Thank you
Go ahead, use a crosley.
Once you ruin your records, it makes mine worth slightly more.
there's some logic there and that's what I'm pleased about as well. but hte problem is much of that nail and groove damage done won't be visible to a potential buyer until you play it!
Well, I'll be damned. crosleys really dont ruin your records i have had a crosley knockoff for a couple of years and all my records are still perfectly fine
+Banana _Man Official play those same records on a hifi system and then a new copy of them on it, you will cry
But they're not gunna ruin their records, they're ruining their VINYLS...
"Vinyl Player" fuck me, that is the worst thing I have ever heard.
Yessss. Thank you!
Saying records "sound" better and then playing them on a Crosley... *stifles vomit*
Yes indeed and wow that records warped
I mean a lot
For the record ... you are a stuck up @###. Not all people are "audiophiles" or can in fact afford a serious turntable. Relax, enjoy the fact that the younger generation is able to appreciate a format that I grew up with. Hell man, maybe one day their system will put you to shame and they will be commenting at your cheap "chinese system" .... Your comment was not called for !!!!!!
Aside from the cover/artwork and being a collectors piece, it's truly in the sound of vinyl that the magic lies.. It's been proven that music on vinyl can be more moving and enjoyable due to the frequencies you can hear and actually feel while listening to a record. Frequencies you usually can't hear on CD or MP3 due to compression.. Long live Vinyl!
Çerastes but a properly mastered cd or DAT would be pure bliss.
I love how all the audiophiles are criticizing all the kids with Crossleys, but they forget that all the kids in the 60’s and 70’s also used to play their records on suitcase record players, so what’s the difference? I think it’s great to see more kids getting into vinyl. And don’t worry they will figure out that a Crossley isn’t the best, it’s just a start.
The pain I feel at the sight of records stacked laying top of each other, dirty records and not to mention freaking CROSLEY PLAYERS!!!!
Agreed 100%!
>Vinyls
>Crosley
>I Don't have the right speakers so it adds to the experience
>>>>CHUCKING THE RECORD INTO HTE SLEEVE
Some of my mates at school have also gotten into records, one of them actually went out to a record shop one day with me because he had nothing else to do, dude came out with "Jumalten Aika" by Moonsorrow and Burzum's "Hvis Lyset Tar Oss" and went out and found his mom's old Pioneer-deck from his garage. It's great when music can bring people together like this.
Why oh why do people call them "vinyls"? It's what records are made of not what the actual thing is called. It's a minor quibble from an older guy.
Jeremy Breneman Maybe they're confuzzled with the band The D'vinyls.
+Jeremy Breneman Because all the labels which you would use, Record, LP etc. all can refer to any other format, Vinyl is more specific. I recently called up the shipping company because I was having trouble tracking by order and they asked me what I had ordered to find it, when I said it was a record the person thought I had ordered a CD, I had to clarify Vinyl.
That's all fine and dandy. Except for one flaw in that reasoning. Tons of records were made out of styrene, not vinyl. Especially singles.
My FIRST thought was, "If you love this so much, why is there so much DUST?!?!?"
Agreed! & why do they stack them one on top of the other?
For anyone interested in getting their first turntable here's some friendly advice, stay away from cheap brands like Crosley as they will damage your records. At the very least go for the Audio Technica AT-LP60 or if you have a bit more cash to spare go for the Pro-ject Debut Carbon.
Chinmay the pro ject debut is $300, the atlp60 is $100, the difference between those is a giant fucking step, do you assume people have that type of money to spend on something they dont even know if they like yet
The LP60 isn't that much more than a Crosley.
"Vinyls"
VINYLS?!!?!?
Yeah, I want to shake those fools.
A vinyl is what you put on a vinyl player... so that you can listen to it with your vinyl ears
Vinyls is grammatically correct. I have no problem with it.
@@ThatVinylChannel Wrong.
whats the music/song 10:00 onwards?
Before this video I've never heard the term "Vinyl Player" :/
I'm a 46 year old guy getting into listening to records again in the last 3 months or so.
I spent so many hours spent laying on my bed as a teen, big fat 80's headphones on, album cover in hand, listening to my mom's great eclectic record collection.
Now she's given me most of that in the last year or so, along with all the ones I've collected since I was a teenager, I have plenty of cool stuff to listen to and experience again or for the first time!
this entire video made me cringe and is has the quality of a high school journalism project. If it didn't take itself so seriously it might be fine
Old fart here! I still have my "vinyls" from 1961 when I got out of high school. We called them "LP's" though! Still have a player and still have my huge, huge and heavy speakers I bought while in Vietnam!!! Whoa!! And, I enjoy all of them and talk about memories!!! Whew! Thanks a lot for the video! Great job! Best of luck!
Good doc in some areas....
1. It takes a LONG time to make a good album. A week my ass.
2. Turntable. It's called a turntable, not vinyl player, hipster.
3. Vinyl, not vinyls. You don't say sheeps do you?
4. Handle your records properly and gently, and not let them fall into the sleeve like that. That could easily damage them.
5. Clean that needle man. Dirt buildup can scratch that record easily.
Thanks for reading. I would recommend redoing this doc with people who actually know what they're talking about. (Besides the record store guy, he was smart.)
Oh and 6. Ditch the Crosleys. I knew I forgot one!
Zack Cordle 7. Don't stack records.
JadenK Yes!! That is a big one. Let's face it, these kids are ignorant.
Don't be discouraged by these grumpy old people, young hipsters but do follow everything that they mentioned because they are correct about everything they said except "vinyls" . It's incorrect English but it's cool new milennial slang.
@@moehammondmedia No it's fucking not cool, you sound like an idiot like these goofy kids.
0:27 clean your stylus man
Posers oh snap, it really is pretty bad
The dust Collecting on it makes me sick 🤢
To throw something positive in among all the Crosley comments, I just wanted to add in that on the filmmaking side you guys actually did a great job producing this doc. Super clean interview audio, lots of good b-roll, some rack-focus, properly exposed shots. If this was made by high school students, as your account description says, you did a great job!
+Denton Labs Thank you! It actually ended up winning two student production awards in the south eastern chapter of the academy.
As a filmmaker and record collector, I would agree wholeheartedly. The production value here is excellent, as is the narrative story that is created. Record playing has long been a social activity, and your coverage of that aspect reminded me that is was that way for me as well. Back in the 60s when portable record players abounded, kids used to tote their records to each others' houses, sometimes after school. Often, they would bring singles with them in the form of 45s, and they even had a special carry case that held them. This also explains why so many records have peoples names written on the record label and often on the album cover. They wanted to make sure when it was time to go home, that they had their copy with them, and had proof that it was theirs.
Great video, makes me happy to see how many younger people enjoy records. It doesn’t matter where or how they play their records, as long as they enjoy it :)
"A Documentary About Idiots Discovering Vinyl Records"
Vinyl records and turntables is not returning, it always exists... In all the world...
Then that's why half of the plants shut down? You hear all the pressing owners saying I just started up after 30 years of it being shut off? I'm the only one if my group of best friends that owns records and a record player. Yes it's been here for a long ass time but to the new gen is just finding it out.
"Vinyls"
"Vinyl player"
URGH.
"Vinyl player" and crosleys, I don't like this video
+Joey Sendzik haha look chipper
Crosleys are cheap. How much $$ did you have when you were 20? How expensive and well made was your first cassette player? Come on.
Eyewanders Foto
There's a difference between shelling out a boat load of money and quality. There are cheap, quality record players out there and it's about not saying vinyl player, that's not even proper grammar, turntable or record player
Ok.
Crosley sucks I thought a lot of the vinyls I had were too scratched or rough but them on a technics turntable and no problem with sound or playback what so ever
ok but honestly why does the narrator sound like he's narrating a low budget porno
His voice hasn’t changed yet.
It's bare naked vinyl.... now that's kinky
funny how everybody is goin nuts in the comments. i know what you all are sayin, and sure you are right most the time, but honestly, i am happy to see the younger generation to get into vinyl. and they didnt seem too be be that hipster-ish imo. i am happy about every person that gives vinyl a try and maybe hold this love for life...like i did 16 years ago. i became a vinyl nerd (meant positive) and dig for the grails right now, and i am happy about this development. and i am sure they will get better soundsystems etc, when the time is right. and last but not least itz cool to see every younger person that doesnt listen to the crap in the radio!! so come on, let them live ;)
Really none.of these kids had a beard and glasses.
Around 8-minutes the guy says no one has cassette . How did he get that ? I use three. Plus I use about thirty open reel. I only got two turntables - one for each ear
"A months, or a weeks work into" lmfao. Do you know how long it takes people to write (good) music? This is comical to watch lol
I hear Yankee Hotel Foxtrot only took like 3 hours to make.
7:31 #1 to warp your LPs is to store them like this. Happened to grandfather's collection of 78s - they're now unplayable.
what music is played at the beginning of the video?
Ugh.. you're not allowed to call yourself a "vinyl collector" if you play them on a Crosley P.O.S... grrrrrrr
aldiakaroofus pos ? You're a pos.
I'm a 40-something HipHop head and vinyl never went away for us...in fact it is the backbone of HipHop music with the DJ's which we call "turntablists". And not just with HipHop but vinyl records have been the prevailing method for playing music in the clubs regardless of the music genre, and not just old dusty records but new releases and re-presses. Every year since like 1990-something there is always someone talking about either remembering when records were popular or that they are becoming popular again. In my city we have record stores that have been in business for decades even while CD and cassette tape shops were closing down. Records never really went anywhere.
the crush the competition line is false. in the 80s, the advent of boomboxes and walkmans sent cassette sale skyrocketing .
Spending hours looking through the racks in a record shop is way to much fun. Owners seem more talkative than places that do CDs. The artwork is the perfect size and the process of entry getting out the record, placing it on the platter and setting it all up to just sit and chill. Records hold my focus so much more than a cd album.
When I see a big wall of vinyls. When I play vinyls. What the? First the word vinyl is like the word moose. I didn't see a bunch of mooses in the country I saw a bunch of moose. Second I don't remember anyone calling them vinyl. You called them records or maybe LP's. You went to the store and picked up a new (record) album. And third you are not getting "the vinyl experience" when you are playing it on a POS Crosley. If you don't want to get something vintage you can get decent turntables like the U-Turn Orbit for $179. You can get a good Pro-ject for $399.
Back in my day, everyone, and I mean EVERYONE had a stereo system in the main room of their house. Normally surrounded by milk crates or fruit crates full of LPs ("LP" stands for "Long Playing"). I have a collection of around 2000 records and each one has been taken cared for very well so they will play flawlessly for decades to come. Yes, I have many records that are very rare for one reason or another and are quite valuable. But I don't ever see myself selling those. I'm not really sure why, I just know it, you know? Nothing beats the experience of listening to music on a record. I applaud the young generation's return to vinyl and hope they will continue to keep this format alive! The fact that I was a disc jockey at a radio station for several years - just before CDs came into being - is part of why I love them so much. We used to "play records" on the radio. Long before computers and digital music files.
I just love the fact that some of the "collectors" featured in this film are using those crappy Crosley's, that will most-likely ruin their collections (in the long run). Do yourselves a favor & get a good (possibly vintage) turntable.
they said "vinyls" 4 times within 10 seconds please kill me
Welcome to snob central.
I'm a 22 years boy with a tiny collection (most of wich is my mother youth collection) I love records! I want more and more!
+LittleLion93 i've got 164 records!
If I hear one more millennial speak of how cool it is to listen to "vinyls" and to collect them and how much they want to be part of that culture I am going to barf. They are records, LSs, EPs or 7"s. And the people who say that the sound quality is amazing, while showing how they play records on the turntable equivalent of iPod headphones. Gah I'm going to crawl back into my cave where these kids haven't been born yet.
2:57 That's a crosley record player. Never buy a crosley record player.
I think its great that these kids are getting into vinyl. But I think that it would really pay off in the long run for them to to some research and save up and get a good record player
Think of an Lp as a barren field in agriculture in circular form. You see lots of V-shaped furrows as you drive by it. The needle drops into those furrow and picks up the L and R channels from both sides of that V. Mp3s are binary representations of the recording session. An Lp IS the actual recording.
Why the hell can't they get rid of the surface noise?
It's not about nostalgia and reliving the past. Stop saying that! It's about listening to, enjoying and collecting music. And all these kids with their Crosleys and "vinyls" talking about how much they love surface noise make me wanna throw up.
If Crosley’s are shit then what record player should I get with good sound but low cost
An album allows the listener to fall in love. In love with a co listener, or the warmth of the entire package. A record can take you back to a time and place.....music is of the gods.
If you buy a Crosley you don't deserve records!
You are not a music lover, you don't listen...
Just collect them, hang it on your wall but don't listen to it trough a worthless peace of cr** like a Crrrrrrosley!
Buy a good second hand player like a seventies Thorens or a Sixties Dual a nice amp Kenwood or Marantz and a pair of good speakers and really learn to listen to the rich sound SOME vinyl records CAN have.
The Urban Cowboy The Vintage Record Players are the best, they put a good sound and they look good too
Shut the fuck up you snob
I'll go with 15 IPS reel-to-reel tape transfers, thank you. . .
I'm old school and I think it's the coolest thing in the whole world that these young kids call them "vinyls" although us older folk clearly understand that the plural of vinyl is vinyl. Lighten up old snobby records snobs. Let the kids have their thing. I think the term "vinyls" is totally awesome. Keep rockin youngins!!!!!
I think these kids get it. Whether they want to call them vinyls or records means nothing. Whether they play their vinyl on a Crosley or a Technics means nothing. The record player I used to play my records on 55 years ago I'm sure was harder on my "vinyl's" then a modern Crosley. I applaud these young people. My Grandfathers records were shaped like a cup and played back with a steel needle the size of a 3 penny nail and I never heard him insult anyone who was interested in them.
I say play them until their wore out and buy some more. They're your vinyls and it's your music. Enjoy it while you're young.
Is that Roundabout that starts at like 1:20?
Carlos Vásquez Sort of, most of the soundtrack in this film was based heavily off of classic rock songs such as Breathe, Roundabout, and Babe I'm Gonna Leave You. They have the same chords, just different variations of effects.
Russell Scarborough Any other riffs you don't recognize are original riffs either by Tommy Lloyd or myself
Carlos Vásquez Oh and I forgot to credit Wish you were here in the start
Russell Scarborough Thank you. You guys made great versions of those songs, mixing the old vibe with modern sounds, great!
Carlos Vásquez Thanks! that's exactly what we were going for
Digital is a sound. Vinyl is an experience. And we sadly forgot that for a time. Props to millennials and gen Z for realizing that convenience didn't have to be a part of that process
I'm so glad the younger generation is finally getting it...music is analog and vinyl is the highest representation of the analog sound! Now the next real treat for these young folks is when they actually can afford to play their vinyl on a real turntable thru a higher quality system. I'm not talking about a mega dollar audiophile systems but a something like a great vintage system. These are affordable, very easy to put together, and there is an abundance of this equipment out there for cheap. Remember when this stuff was made in the 70's and early 80's vinyl was king and as such the equipment was optimize to play vinyl and to a lesser part tape. And for all you that think these kids are stupid because they are using Crosley record players give them a break! They don't know any better. This generation didn't have the luxury to grow up in the era of the "Stereo Showroom Palaces" such as Pacific Stereo, West Coast Stereo, Cal Hi Fi, The Good Guys and the many little independant Hi Fi audio shops. Not only where these the places you went to look at and purchase audio equipment but to a greater extent you went there to get educated on how to reproduce good sound in your home. Those salesman were not only salesmen they were teachers and were more that glad to impart their knowledge on you on your way to audio nirvana!
I'm 14 years old, and when I bought a record player from the thrift store, my dad said, "that's just like the one I had as a kid." The lint on the record needle makes the records sound grungy. It muffles the sound. You get better sound with a clean stylus. Warped vinyl sounds well...warped.
They should put more focus on remastered vinyl using the original master tapes.
Yes! Agreed!
HELL YEAH!! love it I've subbed!
MrJoenaz me to man
Terrible narrator. And collecting vinyl makes absolutely no sense unless you have a decent system to play them on. Throw those dam crosleys in the trash.
Hot tip for the kids, the plural of vinyl is vinyl not vinyls and a "vinyl player" is a turntable or record player. Also, don't use a Crosley as your main player, it's alright to play on Crosley's sometimes but long term they'll warp your records.
Please, please, please buy a decent turntable like a Pro-Ject, Music hall or Rega. All three start under $500 and will not destroy your expensive records like the cheap plastic ones I'm seeing all young people buying.
Yes exactly. And make sure when you buy a decent turntable that it is setup correctly and the tracking force and anti skate is setup correctly for the cartridge being used.
+Ed Padden My Sony was $25 off eBait - PS T2. Just have to know what is what. My Sony STR-V5 was $25, too. So, was the Sony cassette TC-K555, 3-head - $25. I was never a Sony freak, but it's good stuff
Do you just assume everyone has $500 to spend on a hobby they may or may not like, you fucking snob
If you can't afford a decent turntable, YOU CAN'T AFFORD RECORD COLLECTING. Even a small collection of records is going to cost a few hundred dollars, whether you're buying brand new pressings or used classic LPs. Audiofiles spend thousands of dollars for marginal (or imaginary) improvements in sound quality, but even a regular record collector is going to end up spending hundreds of dollars on records. $500 won't even fill one cube of an IKEA Kallax shelf.
That doesn't mean you can't get good value for money. You can get a Stanton T92USB for $240 (Stanton T series tables are generally DJ setups with straight tonearms for scratching, but the T92 has a home listener-style S-shaped arm for better sound quality). You'll need speakers, but if you already have a TV soundbar, you can plug the turntable into it. Already you have better sound and build quality than a Crosley for not that much more money, plus you're not ruining your records. It's certainly not audiophile quality, but it's serviceable. Yet another is the Audio Technica LP120USB for $300. Another very affordable, yet decent, turntable is a U-Turn Orbit Basic for about $180 ($250 with a built-in preamp like the Stanton or AT). You can get decent inexpensive powered speakers like Edifier R1280Ts for $100. Again, not an audiophile setup, but a huge step up from a Crosley. Or, if you do your research and have some patience (which you should anyway, if you plan on going hunting for desirable records), you can find great vintage equipment for cheap. And if you can solder, you can acquire and fix broken vintage equipment for almost free.
Jeremy Stillwell No he raises good points, my current record collection of 8 is worth over $200, it is a very expensive hobby, but it shouldnt deter those who want to genuinely have a go at it
6:22 "The crackling brings be back to the old days" buddy your like 6
I get a kick out of how younger people call records "vinyls"
Something else a guy said once is that you can own a Van Halen II album. Someone can take it and mix it up with 25 other Van Halen II albums. Given a few minutes to look through them you can probably accurately pick out which copy is your copy lol. Especially with a lot of used lps. The point he was making was that each one can be so unique, have is only qualities on the cover and vinyl itself, not to mention different pressing. Only you know that the upper left corner on the back of the gatefold has an ever so slight wear mark on your copy lol. Collecting and listening to vinyl takes something as powerful as music and make is more personal and more tangible.
love vinyl. love cds too. both have their pros and cons.
Let's play a game, how many times do they say "vinyls"in this documentary. The cringe......
The Jebdude what pissed me off is when the lps had no outer selves and was played on an all in one turntable
I'm Swedish, so excuse my lack of knowledge, but what's the problem with saying "vinyls?"
@@erikalvner It's not proper English.
THERE NOT CALLED FUCKING VINYLS!!!!!!!THERE CALLED RECORDS!!!!
+MilesBuckleySkates They're*
I grew up with records and have hated the crackles and pops. Longed for the clean sound. I was thankful for that sound when the CD came out. It wasn't until my late 20's that I went to a club and I seen that they were playing records and the sound was so much more in depth than the CD was. I never knew from my mother that there was a way to clean a record as not to hear all these clicks and pops. Once I learned how to clean and clean the stylus that I realized what a record had to offer. I was born in 1970. I never knew how good they could sound if properly cleaned.
Regarding the Crosleys destroying records:
This is nothing new. We always had record players and turntables that were "vinyl killers" that destroyed records.
During the most recent previous generation, in the early 1980s, mainstream people were settling for crappy players sold at the Walmarts and K-marts. These had horrible ceramic cartridges which dug into the grooves of records and carved chunks of material out of grooves with every play. At the same time, the Walmarts & Kmarts were selling crappy 45-RPM singles made by Columbia, A&M, and related labels, that were made of the cheapest polystyrene. Playing styrene records on these crappy Walmart players would totally shred the records.
Then the record industry started pushing CDs, which the public flocked to in droves. Hmm... So they bought the cheapest record players, threw those out along with the crappy records, then paid a fortune for the first generation CD players & CDs, which are now considered to be crap and worthless. And now the Crosleys are taking over. And the cycle continues.....
ArtifactAttic I have two record players, an ION Usb turntable, which I use for obvious reasons, and does 33rpm, and 45rpm. I also have a mid 60s entry model Califone with a ceramic needle, which I like a lot. It can do 33, 45, 78, and strangely enough, 16rpm speeds, as well as base and treble control, which is really nice. It doesn't have a 78 stylus, though, which is disappointing, because every time I play a 78, I know I'm *destroying* that poor little stylus.
Some of those first generation CDs really are worthless, because they were poorly mastered and some had a manufacturing defect that caused the data to become corrupted.
Dust, warped records, "vinyls" or "vinyl player", harsh needle drops...need I continue? Its not a bad video, but could clean up some stuff.
3:34 No, cassettes and 8-tracks were not in competition with vinyl in the 60's. They were not even used for music until the 70's.
I love vinyl. I had about 1000 albums at my mothers house. My parents redid the up stairs and threw them all away. I started my collection again. I’m on 530 albums now. Way more expensive now
I got my first record player back in the mid 90s when I was around 12 years old. It was a big beast of a machine from the 70s and I loved it, using it constantly until it finally died around 10 years ago. At the time I got it, I just thought records were cool and in hindsight I think that's what started my love of all things old school.
I'm 53, I've been collecting vinyl since I was ten, and everything about this video annoys me from start to finish. How can they say that vinyl sounds better when they're playing records on a Crosley? And does anybody in this video know about cleaning a stylus, overhang or anything? Collectors like myself have never gone away, and this great multitude of "hipsters" are destroying a lot of records. But the kids are where the money's at, and that's what it's all about.
Hmmm.. well I just went to Ford's web site and built a 2014 Edge. It has a CD player as standard equipment - so yes Ford still has CD players in their cars.
Why would you take the time to look that up?
xArrivalx I cared enough to verify some of the statements made in this video. If you watched the video, a person stated that Ford does not sell CD players in their cars anymore. It seemed to me it was unlikely. Also, I have a 2010 Ford truck with a CD player and wondered whether it was true or not. Turns out it is not true.
If where you were going with your question is that I am a vinyl hater - nope. I have 2 turntables and over 600 LPs. And yes, I buy new vinyl as well as collecting used, so I am supporting the current resurgence. How about you?
***** I can also say I just got a new toyota and it has a CD player, I know he said ford but I just thought I would put that out there.
The truth the records never left, they have been kept in the time and they continue manufacturing with better quality of sound.
Long life to records
Whats old is new again. Its great to see these younger folk get into LPs
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I love Vinyl but I also enjoy 8 tacks and cassettes. You might call bs but they can sound pretty good on the right equipment.
Vinyls, on the vinyl... got to love it! And who cares what people play it on. Most people do not care about sound quality, they just want to listen to music. If a Crosley gets you into records then its done a good job. People always start with junk and upgrade. Us older people, think about the junk we started with in the 70s and 80s! Stop being a snob. While LPs are on the rise and CDs are on the down side of sales its not even a fraction of what sales used to be.
Thats usely how it starts with a small record player and then as we go along the turntables get bigger and better
Who cares if they have a cheap record player? What matters is that they enjoy it! I bought one for $45 (It was on sale for 40% off, orginaliy being $80-$90) and it works great! there's a bit of noise in the back, but I just ignore that and enjoy my music (Twenty One Pilots, Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, etc.) on it. Music is universal. It doesn't matter if you buy a $20 guitar from your local music store or a $1,000 guitar from the professionals. You're making music, using it and loving it.
crosley >facepalm
+Reviver tothemax LOL
6:19 "Older music is made on vinyls" - okay, she's very young so I''d like to give her a little slack, but I mostly want to give her a little SLAP. Older music was made in a studio with a tape recorder, microphones and a mixing board so every element sounds perfectly blended together, you clod. It's not made on a record, whose material is vinyl. Let me make another example of not calling an object after the material from which it's made. Superheroes wear garments called capes which are usually made out of silk. Superheroes do not wear silks. Are you with me so far?
This documentary is cracking me up. It almost makes me think these kids are putting us on.
Did anyone else get pissed at the fact none of them held the record correctly or stored them in selves or CLEANED THEM
They have those "Croley" plastic crap. Now I understand why they say "vinyls" and "vinyl player" hahahaha. For the same price of that pieces of crap you can get better turntables. I think they don't have idea what they're using, but as they jumped from mp3 to "vinyls" is understadable that they don't have idea how to play a vinyl record properly and get the best of it.
Is the BGM just noodling? Or is it an actual record?
so many things wrong with this
0:26 There's too much dust on the stylus . Get a zerodust or at least a stylus brush.
1:42 Why do you have a crosley. They are terrible. And holy cow, that vinyl is warped.
2:30 They're called turntables, not vinyl players. Please call them their proper name.
2:52 Store the records upright, not stacked on top of each other. they will get warped.
2:58 Another Crosley?!
3:01 Please call them records or LPs, not vinyls.
3:28 Please get better record sleeves. Those leave paper flakes on the record surface and they can easily scratch your record.
6:31 Its not the speakers that are creating static. Thats static on the record its self. Get a zerostat.
But great vid none the less.
Wow for a jedi you sure are a troll! ;)
The plural for vinyl is vinyl. I don't want to continue the negative but please drop the s.
Don't play records on cheap turntables. They just destroy records. But a vintage turntable or a new Pro Ject Debut Carbon
It is nice that records are making a come back they were always fun to play
In the 80s cassettes absolutely destroyed vinyl in sales. More revisionist hipster bullshit there
+JonnyInfinite That's only because they are "portable". It was easier to take your music with you on cassette tape than to try and install a turntable in your vehicle. Otherwise the sound quality of cassette tape is inferior to that of vinyl records.
+billyboi57 depends on the deck, you can get some incredible sound from a quality player. And not to mention chromium dioxide cassettes which can rival vinyl for fidelity. Vinyl was on the wane already before CD came along
+JonnyInfinite yes I agree. I have some cassette tapes that sound even better than vinyl. It just depends on the cassette deck and condition of the tape.
+gpuppy1234 I have an original pearl jam ten on vinyl and cassette. I think the cassette sounds better
+gpuppy1234 Cassettes have a unique low end sound that's unmistakable.
Every comment on this is so hateful. Not all "young people" go around buying records and putting them on terrible crosleys. I'm twenty and have a Dual 510 with an ortofon 2m Red and a U-Turn orbit with an At-95. Yes I clean my records with the spinbrush. Yes I have a dedicated brush that I use to take dust off every time I play. No I don't touch the playing service. I also happen to have a very in-depth knowledge of audio equipment and can assure my setup is very well put together. And who cares if some people call them vinyl? So what?
Tired of everyone bashing youth for getting into a hobby. Although hipsters that post nice records on crosleys make me cringe