Prefer your old vinyl to digital?

[Pedro_The_Swift]

I have a cubic foot of records I'm keeping for some reason,,

after this I'm not sure why,,

maybe its because if I ever have another proper record playing system it will have decent speakers,,
as opposed to the crap ones playing my digital music now,,

YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzRvSWPZQYk)

[Don 130]

I think I have about 5 Cu ft of vinyl and I've converted some to Mp3 by using a turntable with a USB outlet and Audacity (free)software. The results are good enough for me, but perhaps not the purists.
Don.

[p38arover]

I keep thinking I should sell my Thorens TD125 turnatable, SME 3009 tonearm, and Shure V15 cartridge.

Something like this (not mine):

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They don't get used any more and I still have two other turntables (Pioneer PL51 direct drive and APAN BFU121 belt drive).

[austastar]

Hi,
Ditto, plus a reel to reel tape recorder.
Cheers

[p38arover]

I have two Harmon-Kardon HK1000 cassette decks. In their day, they were up there with Nakamichi.

[Homestar]

Ditched all my physical sources of music years ago. All digital, shared across all my devices - can play any song from any device, any time. [emoji106]

I get why people keep vinyl/cassettes/etc but not my cup of tea and I'm not enough of an audiophile to be able to hear any differences - I've always found records to hiss and pop and be generally crap, so I haven't bought a record since CD's were first released. Stopped buying them years ago now as well.

[incisor]

most of mine got used as frisbees by my kids

I still have about 30 or 40 I listen too every now and them but not as often these days as I pretty much have everything in Flac or Alac these days

[trout1105]

I loved CD's when they first came out and ditched all my vinyl and tapes years ago.
I have yet to embrace the MP3 Bluetooth way of playing music fully because I don't know how to get my CD's onto my phone so I can use this type of system.
My daughter put 100 or so songs on my phone that I play with one of those small "Boom Boxes" that work on Wi-Fi but that's as far as I have gotten so far.
I also find it easier to select songs using a CD player than fiddling about with my phone when I am driving the car or the boat.[biggrin]

[trog]

Got to love the vinyl . For one it is yours , not something floating about in the either. The tactile enjoyment of actually playing the record is much nicer than push of a button. Though I do convert all my records to a digital format , partially for reference that I don’t buy something that is already in the collection, and I can’t bring a turntable with me to work. The only draw back is that I now have to de select a lot from the library as my digital player ran out of room a while back. Keeping my eye open for a cheap 256 gb iPhone so I can continue to grow my collection.
The cloud to me is not real , where the cover art and liner notes are in some cases almost as good as the music

[TasD90]

Ron,

Thorens, S.M.E., Shure, the holy trinity!!!

Vinyl much warmer to listen to. Have about 1000 vinyl albums and hanging on to all of them.

Peter.