Do you still listen to vinyl?

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There are certain albums that I will only buy on viny. I have a bit of an 80s obsession and I just like the sound of vinyl and the way that the disk spins, it seems to go perfectly with an 80s beat. I like the warm sound of vinyl and the tiny sound coming from the record player as the needle winds through the groove. It's like I have sound coming from two speakers and an added 3rd sound coming from the turntable.

However, mostly, people think that this is madness. I haven't got an mp3 player.

Yes, esp half speed mastered Japanese pressings

Yes, I still do. Some of my stuff is kind of off the wall and hard to find in CD form. I love my albums

I certainly would if I had a working record player...I did when I lived in my little rooming house...i would listen to the same records over and over again....

I listen to vinyl, all the time. I'm listening to The Kinks' 'Word of Mouth' album on vinyl, right now. It's funny that you mentioned the 80s, and I'm listening to a record from the 80s.

Some stuff can only be got on vinyl.

A lot of vinyl translated to mp3 for certain.

If I ever get the itch again and feel like I have the time, money, and space for storage I could perhaps get a pair of Technics and a mixer. I'm pretty certain that in the electronic music community vinyl is here to stay for a *long* time, its too much of an art form - both from the dj's standpoint and from the visual standpoint of the spectator.

mine is clearly a tiny minority opinion, but i am used to being the only one who feels a particular way on many subjects, so here goes- i only listen to records long enough to digitize them. i have NEVER liked the sound of the phonograph record, be it vinyl or shellac or bakelite or whatever. impulse noises such as crackle and pops, static noises such as hiss, groove roar, platter rumble et al, poor american pressings with warps and pressed-in defects/distortion, and mistracking distortion worn into the record by previous owners with bad equipment, are all downers to me. even pristine quality pressings have groove roar and platter rumble, especially when played on high-resolution megabuck equipment. loud clicks and pops have been known to "sneak up on me" and startle me to jumping. i have several thousand of the flat frying bacon emulators, though, and i spend way too much time denoising them and transcribing them onto CD.

converting a vinyl record directly to MP3 without denoising it first, presents a welter of digital artifacts unless the compression rate is at least 320 kbs. in the early days of file sharing services, i heard scads of vinyls that didn't fare well in the compression process, as the majority were severely compressed at 128 kbs.

unless a person listens to their vinyl in a HEPA-filtered clean room with no static electricity and no dust whatsoever, there will be a gradual accumulation of impulse noises to deal with. i have also found that megabuck record cleaning machines make very little difference in the amount of noise on anything but a totally filthy record- this was a major disappointment for me, as i had been hoping that if i cleaned some of my favorites with such a machine, it would make my restoration job a bit easier- but no dice. i also got to hear what the ELP laser turntable sounds like with typical records, and that is NOISY! a plethora of clicks and pops like you've never heard before. a megabuck record cleaning machine truly IS useful with this particular turntable, and is a must, along with a CEDAR declicker, both of which are options on the ELP website.
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Yes sometimes