Is vinyl cringe?

Is vinyl cringe?

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no. I get the appeal of sitting down and physically playing an album. They are quite overpriced and people are very snobby about them. Yeah, I get it, its analog so there's no compression but I bet my left nut you can't tell the difference between a vinyl and a high quality file.

paying $25 for a digitally mastered album pressed onto wax is ridiculous. even moreso are all these teenagers buying crosleys that sound like shit and deluding themselves into believing a ceramic needle scarping a vampire weekend album sounds better than digital. however, I always look through the records at thrift stores and garage sales because I think it's interesting to go through piles of old stuff

Not really, the least flimsy format for music. Also the most collectible.

>digital/streaming
could be deleted tomorrow
>CD
a record can have some scratches on the surface but stil play just fine, not so much a CD
>casette tape
the actual ribbon can get jammed in the mechanism and clump up or even get shredded if it's really jammed god. Also it's shit that you can't skip tracks like you can with CD or records.

Agreed, always check the used sections. I found a used copy of Abbey Road from 1969 in my local record store for $8. It doesn't sound bad for its age.

it sounded like shit back in 1969 kek

>however, I always look through the records at thrift stores and garage sales because I think it's interesting to go through piles of old stuff

Same. There's like a collectibles/everything store where I live and as a kid it was just like collectible cards and MtG and stamps and coins but over the years the owner turned the store into like a hoarder's paradise where the video games section just has like 40 different copies of Skyrim on the PS3 but anyways a bit before Corona shut everything down dude had at least 4 full stacks of those cardboard boxes you'd see everything in the 1980s all filled to the brim with old records. There was some big names in it but mostly just all weird local stuff, I love that.

I even found some by the side of someone's driveway for garbage day

>the least flimsy format for music
>Play record 100 times
>scratches and degradation of the material

I can. The vinyl would snap, crackle, and pop.

>>scratches and degradation of the material
the records i get are made from vinyl, not room-temperature butter.

honestly from someone who has lived off buying and selling records for 10+ years, having met all the vinyl types... yes it is cringe

nothing more than a simple collection of physical items, just like a collection of guitars, baseball cards or shoes. Of course, in the case of vinyl, it is a practical collection, it adds to the passion of sitting down and listening to a record from the first song to the last, appreciate the big cover art, the booklet...
To be able to get a vinyl to sound as good as a flac, you'd have to spend a lot of money, so the argument it sounds better is just invalid for 90% of the cases.
t. vinyl collector

Vinyl sounds better.

wrong, you just enjoy the artifacts inherent to vinyl (clicks, popping, muh warmth). vinyl for digitally mastered music is the music equivalent of a VHS filter

I don't think so, but some of the people who are just starting to collect can be kind of cringeworthy. I don't give them too much of a hard time though, we all start somewhere. My girlfriend bought me one of the intro-level crosleys when i first started getting into collecting records. After a few months I got into it more than just a fleeting interest, and after doing some research I found out that they can damage the records. I now have a much better turntable and speaker setup, and can actually appreciate the sound now.

On other opposite side there is the super obsessed
" >muh 180gram vinyls are the only way to listen to music and nothing else is worth bothering to listen to, fuck your digital albums"
They're equally as cringeworthy.

I also get they appeal of having a tangible copy of your favorite albums. Many people my age or younger weren't around for the CD boom, or just didn't care at that age.

I dunno, like most interests its always the scene that is cringe and not the hobby itself.

No, you are

>LOVE a band/artist
>can collect their every release, albums, singles
>as well as multiple pressings of same release
>can distinguish audio quality between release
>will collect white labels, coloured limited press
> will own and cherish forever, indestructible
vs.
>""""love""""" a band/artist
>can tell you artist if spotify/wiki page is up
>can recommend a song if remember to save it
> will always have song unless spotify delete it.
its a generational thing probably

>Yeah, I get it, its analog so there's no compression but I bet my left nut you can't tell the difference between a vinyl and a high quality file
Vinyls are actually lower quality than CDs with less dynamic range (probably why they sound so warm). It's just that if you overcompress audio on a vinyl then the needle literally cannot stay on the record and the loudness wars began around the time CDs started to replace them.

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Relatively new collector here so take what I say with a grain of salt.

Vinyl has it's ups and down. Price is a huge issue.

I'm really enjoy having physical media and vinyl scratches that itch for me. I used to be big into collecting CDs but I personally feel that records are more interesting.

Sound wise you really can't tell the difference between mediums unless you have really nice equipment. My turntable and CD player run through the same receiver/speaker setup. Both sound much great but I do enjoy watching the record spin and the whole ritual blah blah of putting it on...

Anyways music is good and as long as people listen to what makes them happy I don't really care.
> Crosley's really do suck though and fuck up your records. Stay clear of those.

Coloured vinyl is a tactic to sell more records. Black usually sounds better imo.

>a colour sounds better or worse
hello synesthesia

>implying discs are indestructible
showing your boomer senility physicalfag lol

Even if it’s a digital source, wouldn’t the album sound better anyway listening in analog form?

>discs
die pls

If you treat your vinyl like a frisbee then it would eventually scratch.

The digital master has better audio quality than the vinyl. Vinyls just have a distinct tone to them.

imagine not backing up your files. digital is easily the least flimsy format.

>with less dynamic range
They're CAPABLE of less dynamic range than CDs. However, we live in topsy turvy world where the mastering for vinyl seems to be done with more of an audiophile sensibility in mind than the CD version.
Basically, CDs are a squandered technology capable of fantastic sound quality that goes to waste on DR5 junk.

Dynamic range of Vinyl = 80 dB, but can theoretically be higher up to 120 dB
Dynamic range of CD = 150 dB
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But yeah you're right.

I like vinyl because it’s purely analog, but the culture surrounding is the worst.

Yes. They're a pure consoomer meme that sound worse.