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Pulled out some vinyl tonight...
By: AJ Date: April 7, 2019, 10:16 pm
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...Listening to "The Greatest hits of Otis Redding"
They just don't make music like that anymore.
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Re: Pulled out some vinyl tonight...
By: The Dudely Lama Date: April 8, 2019, 7:52 am
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i like the definition of digital... the ability to adjust
headphones to my listening or hearing deficits...
but there just something about vinyl and old school amps and
speakers... making the air vibrate and the walls shake...
that just cant be replaced.
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Re: Pulled out some vinyl tonight...
By: AJ Date: April 8, 2019, 6:28 pm
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[quote author=The Dudely Lama link=topic=368.msg3450#msg3450
date=1554727961]
i like the definition of digital... the ability to adjust
headphones to my listening or hearing deficits...
but there just something about vinyl and old school amps and
speakers... making the air vibrate and the walls shake...
that just cant be replaced.
[/quote]
true....Plus having some album art you can appreciate without
magnifying glasses.
For the record though, I was playing it on a USB turntable, but
plugged into a 70's era Yamaha integrated amp and through some
Yamaha 90's era NS-10M studio tracking monitors. I like the
NS-10's because they have a really flat frequency response. I
have to boost the bass on the amp a bit because of that. But I
have them set right here on my desk pointed right at ear level.
it's quite pleasant.
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Re: Pulled out some vinyl tonight...
By: dinkleburg Date: April 9, 2019, 5:24 pm
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Back in the day I never had a subwoofer.
Now I have two, and they make the vinyl sound pretty nice.
Just not a fan of the surface noise. I live in a dry climate,
and the low humidity can make the best vinyl click and pop from
static electricity.
I also love the convenience of digital.
I like 'em both, but for different reasons.
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Re: Pulled out some vinyl tonight...
By: AJ Date: April 9, 2019, 9:02 pm
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[quote author=dinkleburg link=topic=368.msg3453#msg3453
date=1554848666]
Back in the day I never had a subwoofer.
Now I have two, and they make the vinyl sound pretty nice.
Just not a fan of the surface noise. I live in a dry climate,
and the low humidity can make the best vinyl click and pop from
static electricity.
I also love the convenience of digital.
I like 'em both, but for different reasons.
[/quote]
Understand. listening to records is a nostalgia thing, as well
as a electro mechanical thing. The physical aspects of picking
out a record, pulling it out of it's sleeve...Putting the
platter on the player, lowering the needle.
Listening to the record....Makes you realize why we all went to
CD's...Lol. The crackles and pops.
Hell....I don't even use cd's anymore really. When I get a new
cd, I rip it first to my computer, and either listen to it up
here, from the computer file to the stereo amp up here in the
bunker, or transfer it to a MP3 player I use in my truck, or to
a memory stick I use in the downstairs stereo.
Most of the time now, when I buy new music, at least new to me,
I buy the file off Amazon and literally have no hard copy of it
at all.
Times have changed. I started listening to music in earnest, 52
years ago. Records and radio ruled the day back then. My
Grandfather had a Reel to reel recorder and a High Fidelity
system he built him self. literally built the cabinet, the
speaker enclosures, the amps, preamps and the switching gear all
from Dynaco kits.
Who knows what will be going on in music, or how folks will be
listening to it 52 years from now?
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Re: Pulled out some vinyl tonight...
By: Evil Imp Date: April 11, 2019, 5:49 am
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[quote author=AJ link=topic=368.msg3456#msg3456 date=1554861752]
Understand. listening to records is a nostalgia thing, as well
as a electro mechanical thing. The physical aspects of picking
out a record, pulling it out of it's sleeve...Putting the
platter on the player, lowering the needle.
[/quote]
that's the main reason i prefer listening to vinyl than any
other format. it's the entire ritual.
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Re: Pulled out some vinyl tonight...
By: indigo_dave Date: April 11, 2019, 7:26 am
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Regarding Otis Redding, I have a 3 CD set (I need to put them
back on my phone for portability and listening when walking).
Great stuff. I noticed the horn "punches". Then I read that
Otis came up with many of these and taught them to the horn
players, poking them in the shoulder for rhythmic emphasis.
I read Bill Graham's book (Graham of the Fillmore) and he said
that when he asked musicians (circa 1967) who he should book
that he hadn't booked, several told him he should get Otis. He
did.
I like Dock of the Bay, OK. But there are some much better
grooves that Otis created, that rarely get heard IMO. Oh, and
listening to him once, I actually thought I heard a remarkable
similarity to Janis Joplin. I suspect she listened to his
records a good bit and was influenced by his vocal style.
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