For me its the whole vibe of putting a record on, dimming the lights, making a cocktail / having a glass of wine and relaxing and listening through a full album the way it was intended to be heard, rather than hitting shuffle or skipping through tracks. I will only start a record if I have time to listen to the entire album, both sides.
Nice to hear someone who collects and listens to Records for exactly same reasons as I do all 10 reasons completely hit the nail on the head. Great Video Thanks Nigel
I love the *rituals* of vinyl. Records offer an intoxicating, slow-burn aural experience that I don't feel with any other music format, & scrounging through discs at a well-stocked shop has been a personal-favorite pastime for at least 25 years!
I just started collecting vinyl in November 2022. I love having a physical copy of my favorite music. I love hearing the entire album instead of just a song or two on the radio from that artist. And I love seeing the art and photos on the cover. I don’t see me ever stopping now. Most of my collection is newer music so far. I was lucky enough to get a couple of my grandmothers vinyl records from the 70’s. She passed away august 29, 2021. 💖
Part of the reason I collect is I hope one day my kids look at my collection and before they sell the things (I hope they keep them trying to keep the bar low) I hope they take a dive into what I collected and maybe get a glimpse of who I am because to me music tells a story of who we all are.
I lived in Saudia Arabia as a kid, and there were very few legit vinyl available for purchase. There were no copyright laws, so pirated tapes were really all you could find. I missed my vinyl big-time. I bought tons of those bootleg tapes, since they were 2 to 3 bucks. They were all recordings from vinyl, they weren't taken from the master. They got me into b-sides and rarities because they filled a 60 minute blank tape. Typical album was 40 minutes, then they had 20 minutes of b-sides or songs from older albums. They glued a vinyl jacket with a clear pocket, that wrapped around the tape cover, then they used unique band pictures to create a cover that slid in the clear pocket, much like a DVD. (Speaking of which, they also sold movies on VCD, which was a blank CD that held 74 minutes of video, so most movies were spread over 2 volume VCDs. I lived right next to a pirated tape store called 747, which was the big chain in Jeddah. I kept those tapes and VCDs to this day
I have the first record I ever bought. Popcorn by Hot Butter. My latest great finds are Lady Blackbird and Black Rebel Mortorcycle Club. Niether is very new, but new to me. Collecting is about having your ear to the ground and finding great music, old or new. It seems like every record I get is a personal victory against the mediocrity of the music industry in general. There is more music out there than ever before. With outfits like Discogs and Bandcamp, it's great fun these days. Keep spinning, Kids
I've been collecting forever and like everyone else, was forced to switch to CD circa 92, as vinyl was all but gone. During those " CD years" I found it too easy to hit the skip button, if I wasn't loving a song immediately. Then I'd play the same songs I loved over and over. Vinyl kind of forces you to play the whole album. Now that the industry is releasing all those 90s albums that were never on Vinyl, I'm finding all these great songs that I only knew the first 20 seconds of back in the CD days lol
That feeling you get when hearing something from your past is only supported by going through the motions of "putting a record on." If it's a well used album, you may even have the crackles memorized in the lead-in or between the cuts. Vinyl is nostalgia fuel, especially with pop music. Also, as a music student decades ago, performances by renowned classical artists remain a reference, many examples by legends who are no longer with us, but still provide examples of expression not matched since. Also, many boxed sets came with the equivalent of a large dissertation, expertly researched and written, usually accompanied by related quality illustrations. Ah vinyl...
Well said and done sir.. 🤘💯🔥. I have records on my collection that the first time I heard them I was 4 or 5 years of age , I remember seeing my uncles/aunts dancing and having a good time, and now those records and memories belong to me.
I love collecting physical formats. Mainly vinyl records and cassette tapes. Vinyl records are when I'm sitting at home and I have the time to listen to an album. Cassette tapes are when I'm travelling or away from my house since making a record portable is not safe for the record. I love both. I only have 1 CD since I'm more on the analog side of things.
My father was a record collector, mainly 78s. I started collecting vinyl during the mid-seventies with my favourite band of the time, “The Faces” It took me years to even think about purchasing a CD. This was mainly due to the non-availability of vinyl. The richness, sound from vinyl is so different from the sharpness/ cold sound of CD. The very fact that you can physically hold and read the cover. “On saying this, I have a large CD collection, for when I’m on the road driving”. People still purchase books and place it on a bookshelf oppose to downloading, it the same with vinyl. Going to shelf and picking out my favourite Robin Trower album. “Well that’s vinyl” “ Brilliant vlog by the way”.
The Faces! The only group I saw five times. Saw several others four times. First time in August ‘72 saw them at The Hollywood Palladium. Greatest show I ever saw. And I’ve seen quite few.😊
when I started buying records I wasn't aware I was building a collection. I like the things that vinyl can do that a cd cannot. There were the hidden sounds in the run out groove on Sgt Pepper which if you have a manual record player you hear "Never could be any other way"in an endless loop until record arm is picked up.
I believe Jack White once said, “there’s no romance in 1’s and 0’s”. Vinyl provides the full haptic, engaging experience that digital can never replicate. It’s also the best way to support your favorite artists. Streaming pays basically nothing at all.
The other point about vinyl is the hardware, I love the turntable, amps, cartridges, speakers, tuners, and all the little upgrades you can try out. These change make a difference in how you hear the music because different cartridges bring out different elements in the music. This is really exciting to hear and brings a new dynamic to you listening experience. Another thing to love about vinyl is, the fact that you hear the songs in the order the artist intended them to be played. Great video, it helps make sense of this vinyl revival.
I too just discovered your channel!! It's what we did back in the day. Plus, I always bought records and then copied them onto a tape and always had a back up in case I lost the tape or it was stolen. And I just never stopped collecting.
Nice video, all great reasons to enjoy vinyl. I might add to the visual appeal of the albums, covers, inserts...., the gear itself to play them, turntables and amps/receivers in particular, some of which are simply gorgeous just to look at. Yes, there is nothing like owning music in a physical format, any format, and I might add to that even movies. No one can take any of that away from you if company/artist XYZ decides to pull the plug on something for whatever reason(s). And finally nostalgia because for us baby boomers vinyl was the only format to listen to music and personal engagement with the record and equipment, cleaning and so on. And, while sitting in your comfy chair in the sweet spot don't forget a glass, maybe 2 for a double album, of good red!
That's amazing. I was exposed to it by my older brother. It was years later before it caught up to me, but those early experiences must've had some impact.
Love seeing the channel grow GI! The content just keeps getting better, I've gotten a lot of my friends into vinyl just by showing them my modest collection and appreciation for records, keep doing what you're doing!
As a kid in the 60s, typically friends invited friends over---often specifically---to listen to newly released albums. So I have quite a few memories of the first time I heard certain albums. The listening experience had social context. Ron played me the first Led Zeppelin album. I could hardly grasp what I was hearing. Fernie had the Stone's Their Satanic Majesty's Request. "So what did you think of that?" My friend and next-door neighbor Larry introduced me to a long line of esoteric albums over the years by the likes of Funkadelic, Zappa, Blue Cheer and an actual bootleg of Hendrix live, and on and on. My friend Mark invited me over one day. His older brother had a copy of the double album by the Beatles, just released the day before, which we listened to all the way through, twice! A local garage band had an actual jukebox in their practice-space/garage, which they kept stocked with latest singles, Chicago Transit Authority, for one. Magic times, magic memories.
It's was about the same for me in the 80s and 90s, streaming shit can't compete with that feeling, the releases of next albums by the bands of my life were always an event, at least in my room. CD made it worse with that beer mat size and supa clean sound.
For me mastering is a top reason for buying vinyl, with digital they can compress the hell out of the files and still work but with records they have to be very careful not making the stylus jump and other things so dinamic range can't be killed as the do with WAVS, FLACS and a bit less but you still can notice the distorsion with CDS.
I think for me the visual element as well as the sound, plus lyrics in a size you can read are also important factors. I'm over the pond in the UK. I've recently got hooked on New Retro Wave and where possible, buy the Vinyl. I really enjoyed watching your video and you covered every angle of having a record collection and reminded me of things I had forgotten about brought back to the fore. Thank you so much for sharing this. I do hope the plea for more pressing plants is heeded by the major labels with access being given to smaller labels too. Great job!
I so agree with you that's why I'm going 💿 cd. I enjoy the format. Saying that my memories of 78s,33 1/3 & 1 45 brings great Joy. I may go back to records again.
The number one factor for me is... the hunt and litening to an album that i may have not known wrote a specific song or songs and then hearing it... realize what i have.
Great video on your prospective on vinyl records. A lot of points I can relate to. I love the sound, the ritual of playing a record and sharing my love of music with others. The one thing that excites me that you touched on is when people see your collection they light up with joy and are amazed visually. I have a large audio system both at home and at the office. One thing at my office that’s a conversation piece is my jukebox that’s next to my desk. They are shocked I even have one. Always enjoy your videos. I want to visit the store one day when I’m in the DFW area. I’m fairly close living in West Texas. Thanks for what you do.
Started my collection at 14 years old, I'm almost 28 now. Still have the first record I ever bought (misfits static age). I love the history attached to older used records and pondering all the experiences others may have had with them before they came to me. I also dig the gimmicks to a degree, there's some unique albums out there and awesome color patterns and shapes. I kinda hate that vinyl isn't such a niche thing anymore though. it may sound arrogant but ever since vinyl blew up again prices have skyrocketed and too many labels are cashing in on the "limited" aspect of things after observing the secondary market by intentionally doing ultra-low numbers of a color and auctioning them on ebay for inflated prices ( I see it alot with test presses) or they say "limited" as a fear tactic to make it sell out then keep doing variants to the point none would be worth a dime in the future. Also smaller bands and labels are getting screwed because plants are jammed up pressing millions of dogshit records for Walmart, and those records are being marketed to people who are so clueless they call records "vinyls" and think a 45rpm record is broken. I'm excited for the bubble to burst so I can actually bring home more than three records when I spend 100 bucks at the record store again
Great video and well thought out list! Spot on. Another one for me was that I grew up around records so there's some nostalgia with it for me. My dad was always putting on a vinyl (Beatles, Stones, Moody Blues). Did you grow up around records or get into it later on your own?
nostalgia!!! No brainer. I had limited exposure to it from my older brother in my childhood years, but really clicked around the age of 14-15 yrs old when music really took hold of me.
@@NTXVinyl Thats great! Me and my older brother loved sharing our vinyl and even though he is not with us anymore his record collection went into mine! He and I had similar tastes and when I play his albums I can close my eyes and hear that music coming from his room!
I Love Vinyl Records too been collecting vinyl since 2012-2022... I never thought when I was in High School back in 2004 & graduation in 2005... vinyl record they sound so good.... 36 year old adult i sit in my rockin chair 💺 and it moves me 🎼🎵🎶
I would add an eleventh. I've been collecting records for over 50 years, some dating back to 1948. You cannot find "Show Boat", with Jan Clayton, Kenneth Spencer, Carol Bruce, Charles Fredericks and Helen Dowdy, anywhere but on LP.
The recording industry could or maybe even should have kept the Lp jacket for cds. Long boxes were issued but discarded as the weren't really designed to keep. A long box or square booklet perhaps should have accompanied single album releases.
Great video thanks G.I. I love the sound of vinyl first and foremost. I love digging for records - I’ve spent the best part of 40 years building a collection. My interest in vinyl comes from when I was a kid looking through my dads records in the late 70s and being fascinated with the cover art. ‘War of the Worlds’ was a big one - and also ‘Captain Fantastic and the Brown dirt cowboy’ both phenomenal works of art, so yes the visual side is a big factor for me. I even love the smell of records! I love the community - both online and real world one of the highlights of my week is going to my local market on a Sunday morning grabbing a coffee and trawling through the records and chatting with buddies down there - and even strangers tbh I’m quite indiscriminate with my ability to bore anyone 😆 PS I think you can get another row of shelving around the top there!! 😜
Your video just came up in my suggestions. What a great video. You and I are like two peas in a pod as far as our reasons for collecting and listening to records! I recognise every one of these reasons and agree with everything you said! New subscriber… 👍🙂
I really need someone to explain to me why as you go up in price points for record players, the amount of functionality is removed? I have yet to have anyone give a plausible explanation as to why all record players that are $500+ are not automatic, outside of it affecting the esthetic of the record player. I had someone tell me that it would affect sound quality, which is absolute BS, as an automatic function uses a basic electric switch that tells the machine to return the playing arm home once it reaches a certain point. I don't want a record player that let's an expensive needle run on the dead wax for hours on end wearing it down, just because I forgot about it, but maybe that is the point?
I honestly do not know the answer to that. It's never bothered me though. One more of those restrictions that actually helps me stay engaged with the album - as I know I can't simply walk away and forget about it. But I get your point...it's odd.
I've got a high quality Marantz that is fully automatic, but it doesn't have a suspended platter, so it's more susceptible to vibration. It's good, but my suspended platter Thorens blows it away. I imagine it's impossible to make all the auto stuff work well with a high quality suspended platter
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the person that told you that an automatic record player would affect sound quality was telling you the absolute truth. The reason is because an automatic turntable has a motor built into the frame of the deck. This emits motor noise which is picked up by the stylus on the cartridge - which behaves similar to that of a microphone. But it's not as if it's really noisy or anything or spoils listening to a record, but there is extra background noise present additional to what's coming from the actual record. You also have to pay attention to proper earthing of the turntable and positioning the cables leading from it away from direct contact with any other cables - as that can add on even more extraneous noise. What you also don't want to do though is play a record at high volume with the top lid down as that cavity of air created by the lid being down tends to vibrate and transfer vibrations onto the cartridge which is already quite busy itself with reading the groove of the record and vibrating to that. What is important though is that if your power amplifier does not have an in-built pre-amplifier then you should acquire an external one to feed your turntable through before it connects to the power amplifier. This will make quite a difference to the overall power of the record on playback. Most preamps boost the turntable's signal by about 60%, so that's quite a upscale. You mention concern over the stylus running on dead wax for extended periods. I woudn't worry too much about that as your stylus is considerably harder than the plastic vinyl. However, some dead wax areas are scruffy loud and sometimes adorned with noisy, deep-cut, scratched-in writing which the stylus can pick up and makes a heck of a noise. I should mention that a moving coil cartridge is quite a lot better than a moving magnet one. The moving coil gives a lot more output and detail and a far improved soundscape. Unfortunately, they cost more. The optimum would be a turntable with a separate power supply and its own dedicated pre-amplifier and completely manual. But that tends to need considerably more money. But if you heard such a turntable, you'd never settle for anything less.
@@apollomemories7399 makes you wonder how anyone could listen to vinyl at all in the 70s and 80s with all that background noise! And yes it may use a motor to move the arm, but the motor would only run when starting (moving the arm to the record) then be reactivated when the arm gets to the end of the album (to return it) so what you say is not correct, as it would use a very basic electric switch to activate that motor, it wouldn't run while the record is playing. The next thing you'll be telling me is that I need an anechoic chamber to listen to my records properly!!!
@@dawnpatrol700 I think you'll find that all record players with high platters have a solid plinth for a base, so they have nowhere to put the electronics required for automation without changing the esthetics of their designs. That is why most automated players have plastic casings to contain the required electronics and therefore less minimalist in design.
Love this video GI! Could not have said it better myself. If there was any positive to the pandemic, it was that it has allowed me to work from home for the past two years … and counting. This has meant no commuting, more time with my family and much more time to listen to my vinyl collection! I have listened to records that I hadn’t listened to for years!
Great video again. I started with vinyl, then switched to cd when it was introduced (but kept my collection) and I worked for 22 years in music retail and vinyl always stayed close. Now it is getting out of hand !
I have several albums on both CD and vinyl formats that I listen to. If I'm at home, I prefer the vinyl. The CD's are more geared toward traveling. But I can readily detect small nuances in the musical sound playing vinyl that I rarely hear on a CD. There is almost always a little loss, however minor, when transcoding analog sound from an LP or 45 to a digital CD and then doing the transcoding in reverse, from the CD back to analog so the sound can be heard. Along the way, it always tends to lose a barely audible nuance or a few nuances. Magnetic tape, such as reel-to-reel or compact cassette usually copies over from the original LP without any detectable loss. But the quality of the sound on compact cassette is sometimes questionable if not awful, though I have heard cassettes where the sound quality is quite good, almost matching the LPs' sound. And reel-to-reel is better yet, almost if not perfectly matching the sound of a vinyl LP. Most people's ears probably will not detect any differences in the sound between a record and a CD of the same artist(s) or subject matter, but my ears usually do. So I always prefer the vinyl if I have the choice, with magnetic audio tapes (mostly casettes) as my second choice.
Excellent video and list. Really gave me insight and inspired me as I am beginner in this hobby. I actually might print your list and stick it in my wall.
Some record jacket spines are easily recognizable. I can tell that the records behind your head include The Beatles 1962-1966, 1967-1970, #1, Love, and the mono masters. I know this because you happened to arrange them exactly as I arranged my copies.
Give you an example. Loudon Wainwright is one of my all time favorite artists Unfortunately not all his albums are available on vinyl,among them one of his best namely ,,Grown Man,, So you would argue: not for me ,though it is a great album because it is MERELY a CD. Frankly I find that extremely silly. I could give you dozens and dozens of examples like that . I prefer vinyl too but not at the total exclusion of all other formats (I think the CD format has a lot of advantages too and I can easily give a list of ten reasons what the advantages are,)
Like I mentioned, I have NOTHING against other formats - they just aren't what I personally collect. Enough music out there for me on the format I love.
For the truly budget minded, you can buy both lp's and cds at Thrift Stores for usually a dollar or two each. However the selection of cd's is almost always better by far; not only in sheer numbers, but what musical selections are available. Usually its 1970's to current rock with the cd's and the choices on LP are often Bert Kampefert, Ray Conniff (a George Costanza favorite from Seinfeld), Sergio Mendes and Dionne Warwick. Also Mantovanni. You almost can't look through a box or bin of records without a Mantovanni LP popping up. It's clear from people with REALLY good CD players that cd's themselves are generally not to blame for the stereotypical digital sound. Cd's sound much more analog-like with the better players. If you don't have a great CD player, the sound of vinyl should definitely sound more alluring to you; it draws you in more, maybe even a tiny bit more than cd's played on a really good player. The bad thing about counting on record lps to get you big money some day is that there is nary a collector that doesn't realize lp's are available on many places cheap. In places like Thrifts, Garage Sales etc. Record collectors are often "scrounger" type people. But if it's an uncommon enough one that they don't think its likely to show up somewhere cheap, you might be in luck. A vacuum record cleaning machine is the best investment you'll ever make. It improves the sound and a large number of ticks and pops disappear. A REALLY good tonearm will do the same thing. A phono cartridge being held firmly and rigidly in place while a record is playing is something to hear. Your records are quieter than your can imagine.
I have a direct theory. For years I did human Retina research. I studied ophthalmology of course. The eye is an absolute objective matter, which sends the light signal via the optic nerve to our brains. Experiments conducted by James Vicary during 1959 gave some remarkable result while projecting a movie. He placed advertisement slogans in between. Time durance 0,003 second. No one saw this happening. Just our brain did. As by statistics people reacted to what they didn't notice. Our ear (healthy of course), work exactly as the human eye, you only hear the sound which is there. Listening to digital music, which runs through a DAC converted remains made from + and -, which our ears seem not to hear, but our brain does notice.
Reading the comments I see you get a lot of support. Curious to know if these same persons do not buy a favorite piece of music because it is not available on vinyl but only on CD I DO NOT THINK SO
I can only speak for myself. I will stream it until I can find it on vinyl, or until it gets pressed. Or in some cases I have the digital files. But the reality is I consume music the most in my listening room, which is set up specifically for vinyl, and my vinyl collection. So those albums that aren't in that room simply don't get much attention.
I also think about social responsibility towards the musicians, particularly in contrast to streaming. I buy mainly new releases by current minor artists, all pretty fringe stuff. BUYING the music lets them continue with their art, while streaming is pure exploitation. I agree on artwork/aesthetics, ownership, and the commitment when listening to vinyl.
Exactly. I tend to buy a digital copy on Bandcamp if i like an album (the artists cut is 70% or higher i believe). If i *really* like an album, i support my local record store and buy on vinyl.
The whole point of listening to music is sitting down and listening to it.For me,its the only way you should listen to it.My preference has been vinyl and even more so now its come back as a popular format again.I cannot love more than not just listening to it,but to see the sleeve artwork,puttting the record on the turntable and lower the tone arm to it.Streaming it and listening when you are on a bike when you should concentrate whats on the road is a dickhead way of listening to music and imo you cannot enjoy it like that.
I agree with you on all points but finding a diamond in the ruff as they say you'd gotta spend money to make money is true I don't buy albums to make money when I tell people I have350 vynils first thing they say is yea such and such is worth 500$ if your in the vynil to make money your doing it for the wrong reason I love the collection part total 9 great subject if my album is worth so much I'm afraid to drop a needle I don't want it
Speaking of vinyl, a lot of the new records are nowhere near the quality of the records prior to 1990. Maybe it's just my ears, but I just don't feel the same joy or happiness or sadness or other emotions from the newer records for some strange reason. And the exorbitant cost of modern LP's doesn't help either.
You're obviously not aware of high-end audio. Check out the Lumin X1 or Mola Mola Tambaqui DAC or Lampizator Horizon DAC. These will piss on any entry & mid level turntables. Obviously you need appropriate highly resolving speakers.
@@Kowinaida I don’t spend a lot of time comparing formats/systems - and don’t intend to. I just enjoy listening to music on what I’m able to afford over time.
For me its the whole vibe of putting a record on, dimming the lights, making a cocktail / having a glass of wine and relaxing and listening through a full album the way it was intended to be heard, rather than hitting shuffle or skipping through tracks. I will only start a record if I have time to listen to the entire album, both sides.
Nice to hear someone who collects and listens to Records for exactly same reasons as I do all 10 reasons completely hit the nail on the head.
Great Video
Thanks Nigel
Thanks so much Nigel! Appreciate you watching.
Streaming music is like candy, but a record is a full meal!
I love the *rituals* of vinyl.
Records offer an intoxicating, slow-burn aural experience that I don't feel with any other music format, & scrounging through discs at a well-stocked shop has been a personal-favorite pastime for at least 25 years!
I just started collecting vinyl in November 2022. I love having a physical copy of my favorite music. I love hearing the entire album instead of just a song or two on the radio from that artist. And I love seeing the art and photos on the cover. I don’t see me ever stopping now. Most of my collection is newer music so far. I was lucky enough to get a couple of my grandmothers vinyl records from the 70’s. She passed away august 29, 2021. 💖
Awesome to hear! Stay with it, you won't regret it.
Part of the reason I collect is I hope one day my kids look at my collection and before they sell the things (I hope they keep them trying to keep the bar low) I hope they take a dive into what I collected and maybe get a glimpse of who I am because to me music tells a story of who we all are.
I lived in Saudia Arabia as a kid, and there were very few legit vinyl available for purchase. There were no copyright laws, so pirated tapes were really all you could find. I missed my vinyl big-time. I bought tons of those bootleg tapes, since they were 2 to 3 bucks. They were all recordings from vinyl, they weren't taken from the master. They got me into b-sides and rarities because they filled a 60 minute blank tape. Typical album was 40 minutes, then they had 20 minutes of b-sides or songs from older albums. They glued a vinyl jacket with a clear pocket, that wrapped around the tape cover, then they used unique band pictures to create a cover that slid in the clear pocket, much like a DVD. (Speaking of which, they also sold movies on VCD, which was a blank CD that held 74 minutes of video, so most movies were spread over 2 volume VCDs. I lived right next to a pirated tape store called 747, which was the big chain in Jeddah. I kept those tapes and VCDs to this day
Wow! Crazy
I've got some of that stuff from the UAE, all on the Thomsun label.
I have the first record I ever bought. Popcorn by Hot Butter. My latest great finds are Lady Blackbird and Black Rebel Mortorcycle Club.
Niether is very new, but new to me.
Collecting is about having your ear to the ground and finding great music, old or new.
It seems like every record I get is a personal victory against the mediocrity of the music industry in general.
There is more music out there than ever before. With outfits like Discogs and Bandcamp, it's great fun these days.
Keep spinning, Kids
lol I had that popcorn record as a kid. it's so horrible!!! lol
The bonus off a record shop is the workers can help you pick out groups you've never heard of that you may like based on previous purchases.
I've been collecting forever and like everyone else, was forced to switch to CD circa 92, as vinyl was all but gone. During those " CD years" I found it too easy to hit the skip button, if I wasn't loving a song immediately. Then I'd play the same songs I loved over and over. Vinyl kind of forces you to play the whole album. Now that the industry is releasing all those 90s albums that were never on Vinyl, I'm finding all these great songs that I only knew the first 20 seconds of back in the CD days lol
Yes!!! That skip button seemed so smart at the time. But it robbed us of hearing so many great songs like you said
That feeling you get when hearing something from your past is only supported by going through the motions of "putting a record on." If it's a well used album, you may even have the crackles memorized in the lead-in or between the cuts. Vinyl is nostalgia fuel, especially with pop music.
Also, as a music student decades ago, performances by renowned classical artists remain a reference, many examples by legends who are no longer with us, but still provide examples of expression not matched since. Also, many boxed sets came with the equivalent of a large dissertation, expertly researched and written, usually accompanied by related quality illustrations.
Ah vinyl...
My vinyl collection is a time machine.
Yessss!
I just found your channel and I have also begun collecting vinyl! I agree with many of your reasons as they are why I wanted to get into this hobby.
Awesome man! Really appreciate you watching Anthony. If we can ever help in any way just let us know
Well said and done sir.. 🤘💯🔥. I have records on my collection that the first time I heard them I was 4 or 5 years of age , I remember seeing my uncles/aunts dancing and having a good time, and now those records and memories belong to me.
Love to hear it! Thanks for watching!
I love collecting physical formats. Mainly vinyl records and cassette tapes. Vinyl records are when I'm sitting at home and I have the time to listen to an album. Cassette tapes are when I'm travelling or away from my house since making a record portable is not safe for the record. I love both. I only have 1 CD since I'm more on the analog side of things.
My father was a record collector, mainly 78s. I started collecting vinyl during the mid-seventies with my favourite band of the time, “The Faces” It took me years to even think about purchasing a CD. This was mainly due to the non-availability of vinyl. The richness, sound from vinyl is so different from the sharpness/ cold sound of CD. The very fact that you can physically hold and read the cover. “On saying this, I have a large CD collection, for when I’m on the road driving”.
People still purchase books and place it on a bookshelf oppose to downloading, it the same with vinyl. Going to shelf and picking out my favourite Robin Trower album. “Well that’s vinyl”
“ Brilliant vlog by the way”.
The Faces! The only group I saw five times. Saw several others four times. First time in August ‘72 saw them at The Hollywood Palladium. Greatest show I ever saw. And I’ve seen quite few.😊
when I started buying records I wasn't aware I was building a collection.
I like the things that vinyl can do that a cd cannot. There were the hidden sounds in the run out groove on Sgt Pepper which if you have a manual record player you hear "Never could be any other way"in an endless loop until record arm is picked up.
So much fun!
Agree with all those reasons personally. Love your passion. Keep up the great work!
Thanks! Will do!
I believe Jack White once said, “there’s no romance in 1’s and 0’s”. Vinyl provides the full haptic, engaging experience that digital can never replicate. It’s also the best way to support your favorite artists. Streaming pays basically nothing at all.
Also, owning your music is preferable to renting it.
Amen to that! JW is a bad ass
The other point about vinyl is the hardware, I love the turntable, amps, cartridges, speakers, tuners, and all the little upgrades you can try out. These change make a difference in how you hear the music because different cartridges bring out different elements in the music. This is really exciting to hear and brings a new dynamic to you listening experience. Another thing to love about vinyl is, the fact that you hear the songs in the order the artist intended them to be played. Great video, it helps make sense of this vinyl revival.
Appreciate it Mike! And great point about the gear - makes it really interactive.
I too just discovered your channel!! It's what we did back in the day. Plus, I always bought records and then copied them onto a tape and always had a back up in case I lost the tape or it was stolen. And I just never stopped collecting.
Great video ! Your video is so true to me. Your top 10 reasons are exactly my own top 10 reasons.
Glad you enjoyed!
Nice video, all great reasons to enjoy vinyl. I might add to the visual appeal of the albums, covers, inserts...., the gear itself to play them, turntables and amps/receivers in particular, some of which are simply gorgeous just to look at. Yes, there is nothing like owning music in a physical format, any format, and I might add to that even movies. No one can take any of that away from you if company/artist XYZ decides to pull the plug on something for whatever reason(s). And finally nostalgia because for us baby boomers vinyl was the only format to listen to music and personal engagement with the record and equipment, cleaning and so on. And, while sitting in your comfy chair in the sweet spot don't forget a glass, maybe 2 for a double album, of good red!
So well expressed and complete. You speak for so many of us. Thank you.
Thank you!
I remember my parents having friends or my grand mother over and playing records while talking and parties in the 70s.
That's amazing. I was exposed to it by my older brother. It was years later before it caught up to me, but those early experiences must've had some impact.
Love seeing the channel grow GI! The content just keeps getting better, I've gotten a lot of my friends into vinyl just by showing them my modest collection and appreciation for records, keep doing what you're doing!
Awesome! Thank you!
As a kid in the 60s, typically friends invited friends over---often specifically---to listen to newly released albums. So I have quite a few memories of the first time I heard certain albums. The listening experience had social context. Ron played me the first Led Zeppelin album. I could hardly grasp what I was hearing. Fernie had the Stone's Their Satanic Majesty's Request. "So what did you think of that?" My friend and next-door neighbor Larry introduced me to a long line of esoteric albums over the years by the likes of Funkadelic, Zappa, Blue Cheer and an actual bootleg of Hendrix live, and on and on. My friend Mark invited me over one day. His older brother had a copy of the double album by the Beatles, just released the day before, which we listened to all the way through, twice! A local garage band had an actual jukebox in their practice-space/garage, which they kept stocked with latest singles, Chicago Transit Authority, for one. Magic times, magic memories.
Yes!!!! So amazing to read. Love it.
It's was about the same for me in the 80s and 90s, streaming shit can't compete with that feeling, the releases of next albums by the bands of my life were always an event, at least in my room. CD made it worse with that beer mat size and supa clean sound.
For me mastering is a top reason for buying vinyl, with digital they can compress the hell out of the files and still work but with records they have to be very careful not making the stylus jump and other things so dinamic range can't be killed as the do with WAVS, FLACS and a bit less but you still can notice the distorsion with CDS.
Best video yet G.I.! So many great points for purchasing and consuming vinyl. You’re killing it. Keep ‘em coming!
Thanks Chris!
I think for me the visual element as well as the sound, plus lyrics in a size you can read are also important factors. I'm over the pond in the UK. I've recently got hooked on New Retro Wave and where possible, buy the Vinyl. I really enjoyed watching your video and you covered every angle of having a record collection and reminded me of things I had forgotten about brought back to the fore. Thank you so much for sharing this. I do hope the plea for more pressing plants is heeded by the major labels with access being given to smaller labels too. Great job!
Thanks for watching!
Spot on, on all 10 reasons. I enjoyed this.
Thanks for watching!
I so agree with you that's why I'm going 💿 cd. I enjoy the format. Saying that my memories of 78s,33 1/3 & 1 45 brings great Joy. I may go back to records again.
So true! Thanks for your videos. They’re always very interesting and informative!
Glad you like them! Thanks for watching Natalie!
The number one factor for me is... the hunt and litening to an album that i may have not known wrote a specific song or songs and then hearing it... realize what i have.
Records are cooler than mp3's. A record collection and a hard drive will never be equal.
AGREED!
Great video on your prospective on vinyl records. A lot of points I can relate to. I love the sound, the ritual of playing a record and sharing my love of music with others. The one thing that excites me that you touched on is when people see your collection they light up with joy and are amazed visually. I have a large audio system both at home and at the office. One thing at my office that’s a conversation piece is my jukebox that’s next to my desk. They are shocked I even have one. Always enjoy your videos. I want to visit the store one day when I’m in the DFW area. I’m fairly close living in West Texas. Thanks for what you do.
Thanks Max! I hope to add a jukebox one day soon
Started my collection at 14 years old, I'm almost 28 now. Still have the first record I ever bought (misfits static age). I love the history attached to older used records and pondering all the experiences others may have had with them before they came to me. I also dig the gimmicks to a degree, there's some unique albums out there and awesome color patterns and shapes. I kinda hate that vinyl isn't such a niche thing anymore though. it may sound arrogant but ever since vinyl blew up again prices have skyrocketed and too many labels are cashing in on the "limited" aspect of things after observing the secondary market by intentionally doing ultra-low numbers of a color and auctioning them on ebay for inflated prices ( I see it alot with test presses) or they say "limited" as a fear tactic to make it sell out then keep doing variants to the point none would be worth a dime in the future. Also smaller bands and labels are getting screwed because plants are jammed up pressing millions of dogshit records for Walmart, and those records are being marketed to people who are so clueless they call records "vinyls" and think a 45rpm record is broken. I'm excited for the bubble to burst so I can actually bring home more than three records when I spend 100 bucks at the record store again
Great video and well thought out list! Spot on. Another one for me was that I grew up around records so there's some nostalgia with it for me. My dad was always putting on a vinyl (Beatles, Stones, Moody Blues). Did you grow up around records or get into it later on your own?
nostalgia!!! No brainer. I had limited exposure to it from my older brother in my childhood years, but really clicked around the age of 14-15 yrs old when music really took hold of me.
@@NTXVinyl Thats great! Me and my older brother loved sharing our vinyl and even though he is not with us anymore his record collection went into mine! He and I had similar tastes and when I play his albums I can close my eyes and hear that music coming from his room!
@@primeanalogrecords That's awesome. Priceless.
@@NTXVinyl Thats my Discogs handle as well! Putting new stuff up everyday! Check it out!
I Love Vinyl Records too been collecting vinyl since 2012-2022... I never thought when I was in High School back in 2004 & graduation in 2005... vinyl record they sound so good.... 36 year old adult i sit in my rockin chair 💺 and it moves me 🎼🎵🎶
Love it!
I would add an eleventh. I've been collecting records for over 50 years, some dating back to 1948. You cannot find "Show Boat", with Jan Clayton, Kenneth Spencer, Carol Bruce, Charles Fredericks and Helen Dowdy, anywhere but on LP.
The recording industry could or maybe even should have kept the Lp jacket for cds. Long boxes were issued but discarded as the weren't really designed to keep. A long box or square booklet perhaps should have accompanied single album releases.
I've got a Seal CD from 2002, that came in a 12" vinyl jacket. David Bowie did the same thing for his Heathen CD as a limited edition
Awesome video! I definitely feel like streaming has its place but there is definitely nothing like putting on a record.
Great video thanks G.I. I love the sound of vinyl first and foremost. I love digging for records - I’ve spent the best part of 40 years building a collection. My interest in vinyl comes from when I was a kid looking through my dads records in the late 70s and being fascinated with the cover art. ‘War of the Worlds’ was a big one - and also ‘Captain Fantastic and the Brown dirt cowboy’ both phenomenal works of art, so yes the visual side is a big factor for me. I even love the smell of records! I love the community - both online and real world one of the highlights of my week is going to my local market on a Sunday morning grabbing a coffee and trawling through the records and chatting with buddies down there - and even strangers tbh I’m quite indiscriminate with my ability to bore anyone 😆
PS I think you can get another row of shelving around the top there!! 😜
Love to hear it! More records you say?!? 🤣
there’s something really nice about physically holding a album cds are cool but you can’t see them playing
Your video just came up in my suggestions. What a great video. You and I are like two peas in a pod as far as our reasons for collecting and listening to records! I recognise every one of these reasons and agree with everything you said! New subscriber… 👍🙂
Thanks Sean! Love to hear it
I really need someone to explain to me why as you go up in price points for record players, the amount of functionality is removed?
I have yet to have anyone give a plausible explanation as to why all record players that are $500+ are not automatic, outside of it affecting the esthetic of the record player.
I had someone tell me that it would affect sound quality, which is absolute BS, as an automatic function uses a basic electric switch that tells the machine to return the playing arm home once it reaches a certain point. I don't want a record player that let's an expensive needle run on the dead wax for hours on end wearing it down, just because I forgot about it, but maybe that is the point?
I honestly do not know the answer to that. It's never bothered me though. One more of those restrictions that actually helps me stay engaged with the album - as I know I can't simply walk away and forget about it. But I get your point...it's odd.
I've got a high quality Marantz that is fully automatic, but it doesn't have a suspended platter, so it's more susceptible to vibration. It's good, but my suspended platter Thorens blows it away. I imagine it's impossible to make all the auto stuff work well with a high quality suspended platter
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the person that told you that an automatic record player would affect sound quality was telling you the absolute truth. The reason is because an automatic turntable has a motor built into the frame of the deck. This emits motor noise which is picked up by the stylus on the cartridge - which behaves similar to that of a microphone. But it's not as if it's really noisy or anything or spoils listening to a record, but there is extra background noise present additional to what's coming from the actual record. You also have to pay attention to proper earthing of the turntable and positioning the cables leading from it away from direct contact with any other cables - as that can add on even more extraneous noise.
What you also don't want to do though is play a record at high volume with the top lid down as that cavity of air created by the lid being down tends to vibrate and transfer vibrations onto the cartridge which is already quite busy itself with reading the groove of the record and vibrating to that.
What is important though is that if your power amplifier does not have an in-built pre-amplifier then you should acquire an external one to feed your turntable through before it connects to the power amplifier. This will make quite a difference to the overall power of the record on playback. Most preamps boost the turntable's signal by about 60%, so that's quite a upscale.
You mention concern over the stylus running on dead wax for extended periods. I woudn't worry too much about that as your stylus is considerably harder than the plastic vinyl. However, some dead wax areas are scruffy loud and sometimes adorned with noisy, deep-cut, scratched-in writing which the stylus can pick up and makes a heck of a noise.
I should mention that a moving coil cartridge is quite a lot better than a moving magnet one. The moving coil gives a lot more output and detail and a far improved soundscape. Unfortunately, they cost more.
The optimum would be a turntable with a separate power supply and its own dedicated pre-amplifier and completely manual. But that tends to need considerably more money.
But if you heard such a turntable, you'd never settle for anything less.
@@apollomemories7399 makes you wonder how anyone could listen to vinyl at all in the 70s and 80s with all that background noise!
And yes it may use a motor to move the arm, but the motor would only run when starting (moving the arm to the record) then be reactivated when the arm gets to the end of the album (to return it) so what you say is not correct, as it would use a very basic electric switch to activate that motor, it wouldn't run while the record is playing.
The next thing you'll be telling me is that I need an anechoic chamber to listen to my records properly!!!
@@dawnpatrol700 I think you'll find that all record players with high platters have a solid plinth for a base, so they have nowhere to put the electronics required for automation without changing the esthetics of their designs. That is why most automated players have plastic casings to contain the required electronics and therefore less minimalist in design.
My Girl Friend is so good about hitting the Brake for me on my Tech 12 when I walk away & the Record is finished
Love this video GI! Could not have said it better myself. If there was any positive to the pandemic, it was that it has allowed me to work from home for the past two years … and counting. This has meant no commuting, more time with my family and much more time to listen to my vinyl collection! I have listened to records that I hadn’t listened to for years!
AMEN!!! A blessing for sure.
Great video again. I started with vinyl, then switched to cd when it was introduced (but kept my collection) and I worked for 22 years in music retail and vinyl always stayed close. Now it is getting out of hand !
Out of hand?!?! You're just getting started 😃
Commitment means being an active listener. 👌
For sure!
I have several albums on both CD and vinyl formats that I listen to. If I'm at home, I prefer the vinyl. The CD's are more geared toward traveling. But I can readily detect small nuances in the musical sound playing vinyl that I rarely hear on a CD.
There is almost always a little loss, however minor, when transcoding analog sound from an LP or 45 to a digital CD and then doing the transcoding in reverse, from the CD back to analog so the sound can be heard. Along the way, it always tends to lose a barely audible nuance or a few nuances.
Magnetic tape, such as reel-to-reel or compact cassette usually copies over from the original LP without any detectable loss. But the quality of the sound on compact cassette is sometimes questionable if not awful, though I have heard cassettes where the sound quality is quite good, almost matching the LPs' sound. And reel-to-reel is better yet, almost if not perfectly matching the sound of a vinyl LP.
Most people's ears probably will not detect any differences in the sound between a record and a CD of the same artist(s) or subject matter, but my ears usually do. So I always prefer the vinyl if I have the choice, with magnetic audio tapes (mostly casettes) as my second choice.
Right on. You must have great hearting indeed. Like you said most don't/can't even detect the subtleties you describe.
Excellent video and list. Really gave me insight and inspired me as I am beginner in this hobby. I actually might print your list and stick it in my wall.
Go for it! That's awesome. Thanks Alex!
All great points!
Thanks Mike!
Some record jacket spines are easily recognizable. I can tell that the records behind your head include The Beatles 1962-1966, 1967-1970, #1, Love, and the mono masters. I know this because you happened to arrange them exactly as I arranged my copies.
Nailed it!
merci you're an open mind
I appreciate that!
I really enjoyed your videos and your Albums collections too I try to go to local records shops and usually I found good album at goodwill
Right on!
Give you an example. Loudon Wainwright is one of my all time
favorite artists Unfortunately not all his albums are available on vinyl,among them one of his best
namely ,,Grown Man,, So you would argue: not for me ,though it is a great album because it is MERELY a CD. Frankly I find that extremely silly. I could give you dozens and dozens of
examples like that . I prefer vinyl too but not at the total exclusion of all other formats
(I think the CD format has a lot of advantages too and I can easily give a list of ten reasons
what the advantages are,)
Like I mentioned, I have NOTHING against other formats - they just aren't what I personally collect. Enough music out there for me on the format I love.
For the truly budget minded, you can buy both lp's and cds at Thrift Stores for usually a dollar or two each. However the selection of cd's is almost always better by far; not only in sheer numbers, but what musical selections are available. Usually its 1970's to current rock with the cd's and the choices on LP are often Bert Kampefert, Ray Conniff (a George Costanza favorite from Seinfeld), Sergio Mendes and Dionne Warwick. Also Mantovanni. You almost can't look through a box or bin of records without a Mantovanni LP popping up.
It's clear from people with REALLY good CD players that cd's themselves are generally not to blame for the stereotypical digital sound. Cd's sound much more analog-like with the better players. If you don't have a great CD player, the sound of vinyl should definitely sound more alluring to you; it draws you in more, maybe even a tiny bit more than cd's played on a really good player. The bad thing about counting on record lps to get you big money some day is that there is nary a collector that doesn't realize lp's are available on many places cheap. In places like Thrifts, Garage Sales etc. Record collectors are often "scrounger" type people. But if it's an uncommon enough one that they don't think its likely to show up somewhere cheap, you might be in luck. A vacuum record cleaning machine is the best investment you'll ever make. It improves the sound and a large number of ticks and pops disappear. A REALLY good tonearm will do the same thing. A phono cartridge being held firmly and rigidly in place while a record is playing is something to hear. Your records are quieter than your can imagine.
Around these parts good finds at thrift stores and garage sales are pretty much nonexistent. It's still possible, but few and afar between
Great list!
I identify with just about the whole video.
Right on! Thanks for watching
Great job.
I have a direct theory. For years I did human Retina research. I studied ophthalmology of course. The eye is an absolute objective matter, which sends the light signal via the optic nerve to our brains. Experiments conducted by James Vicary during 1959 gave some remarkable result while projecting a movie. He placed advertisement slogans in between. Time durance 0,003 second. No one saw this happening. Just our brain did. As by statistics people reacted to what they didn't notice. Our ear (healthy of course), work exactly as the human eye, you only hear the sound which is there. Listening to digital music, which runs through a DAC converted remains made from + and -, which our ears seem not to hear, but our brain does notice.
Very interesting!
They last longer than digital if you you don't break the disk and take care of them
In regards to your #10 -> Buying vinyl or any music format is always a good sound investment :)
Very true!
Reading the comments I see you get a lot of support. Curious to know if these same
persons do not buy a favorite piece of music because it is not available on vinyl but only on CD
I DO NOT THINK SO
I can only speak for myself. I will stream it until I can find it on vinyl, or until it gets pressed. Or in some cases I have the digital files.
But the reality is I consume music the most in my listening room, which is set up specifically for vinyl, and my vinyl collection. So those albums that aren't in that room simply don't get much attention.
I also think about social responsibility towards the musicians, particularly in contrast to streaming. I buy mainly new releases by current minor artists, all pretty fringe stuff. BUYING the music lets them continue with their art, while streaming is pure exploitation. I agree on artwork/aesthetics, ownership, and the commitment when listening to vinyl.
SO SO true. Fantastic reason!
Exactly. I tend to buy a digital copy on Bandcamp if i like an album (the artists cut is 70% or higher i believe). If i *really* like an album, i support my local record store and buy on vinyl.
Partner likes that also gatefold and coloured vinyl and poster
Well I think you covered it except the “investment” angle would absolutely be last on my list! I never make money on my trades.
It was last on mine too.
It’s a cherry on top. But not a driving motivator for most
I think I want my wife to watch your video... maybe I will get some sympathy(?), appreciation for my collection, and overall understanding... :-)
Haha that’s amazing! Let us know what she thinks 🤣
Yes vinyl sounds more human and real.
AGREED
Partner she has been collecting vinyl for 3 years 3months
The whole point of listening to music is sitting down and listening to it.For me,its the only way you should listen to it.My preference has been vinyl and even more so now its come back as a popular format again.I cannot love more than not just listening to it,but to see the sleeve artwork,puttting the record on the turntable and lower the tone arm to it.Streaming it and listening when you are on a bike when you should concentrate whats on the road is a dickhead way of listening to music and imo you cannot enjoy it like that.
Thanks for watching Brian!
I agree with you on all points but finding a diamond in the ruff as they say you'd gotta spend money to make money is true I don't buy albums to make money when I tell people I have350 vynils first thing they say is yea such and such is worth 500$ if your in the vynil to make money your doing it for the wrong reason I love the collection part total 9 great subject if my album is worth so much I'm afraid to drop a needle I don't want it
Agreed. Buy for the right reasons...the music.
Speaking of vinyl, a lot of the new records are nowhere near the quality of the records prior to 1990. Maybe it's just my ears, but I just don't feel the same joy or happiness or sadness or other emotions from the newer records for some strange reason. And the exorbitant cost of modern LP's doesn't help either.
I can't say I've ever felt that. Have plenty of albums from the 60s to current day - and can find joy in most of them regardless of when they're made.
You're obviously not aware of high-end audio. Check out the Lumin X1 or Mola Mola Tambaqui DAC or Lampizator Horizon DAC. These will piss on any entry & mid level turntables. Obviously you need appropriate highly resolving speakers.
I am very aware of high end audio.
@@NTXVinyl What equipment have you used to compare vinyl & digital?
@@Kowinaida I don’t spend a lot of time comparing formats/systems - and don’t intend to. I just enjoy listening to music on what I’m able to afford over time.
@@NTXVinyl OK, what is your current system?
One final thought: music is the basis not the format.
Hope your business strives. Unpretentious as usual. Eventhough you're from the grunge/alternative era.....hahaha.