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Post by Ken on Oct 19, 2020 8:14:31 GMT -6
I still have a box of vinyl albums in the basement. I started with vinyl in the late 70s and into the 80s and then moved to cassettes and then CDs around 1987-ish. My kids found my box of albums and were so curious about them that we went to Target and bought a cheapy box turntable. They all sat around it wide-eyed as we put an album on and listened to it. I was amazed that they were amazed, but they were. Also, I have heard many times that the range on vinyl is much better. Higher highs, lower lows and a much bigger swing between quiet parts of a song and louder parts. We gave up some quality for convenience, for sure. Most of the money I made as a teenager went towards tuners, turntables, cassette decks, speakers, accessories and albums.
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Post by jkor on Oct 19, 2020 8:32:50 GMT -6
My kids are totally enthralled with it, too. It's actually pretty amazing engineering, I'm pretty amazed by it. In the last week I've learned all about how vinyl reproduction systems work. I didn't really know much about it.
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Post by Ken on Oct 19, 2020 8:54:12 GMT -6
Just watching the kids as they looked at the album turning and looking at the needle and then looking at each other like WTF!! I guess I just thought they would think it was so old school that it had nothing to do with them but they're all into music so the fact that this is how we listened to music was interesting to them. For a short time I was buying CDs where I already had the album. I determined which albums should really be brought forward into the new age and I couldn't afford to replace them all. But as I listened to those CDs I expected to hear amazing clarity, range, depth, etc. but the opposite was true. They sounded flatter and less-impressive and I realized that it may not be a step forward.
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Post by jkor on Oct 19, 2020 9:08:55 GMT -6
They were blown away when I turned the volume all the way down and told them to put their ear near the record and they could hear the music coming from the vibrations of the needle.
I do have a few CDs/album pairs but I haven't gotten the chance to hook everything up to play both on the same system yet. My aunt also has a couple hundred records that she's going to give me. I only have a handful at the moment. I'm sure there will be much more crossover between my CDs and albums after I get those in house.
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Post by Ken on Oct 19, 2020 9:14:49 GMT -6
What should I do with my old albums? Is there a market for these? I haven't flipped through them in awhile but there is U2, Springsteen, Pretenders, Van Halen, Rush, Scorpions, Modern English, Tears For Fears, Psychedelic Furs, The Fixx, Missing Persons, Bow Wow Wow, The Cure and a bunch of other stuff. Probably a hundred or more albums. Funny thing is that I have a cabinet in the basement with CDs in it too. Both store-bought and homemade mixes. Many hundreds of CDs. Not sure what to do with them.
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Post by jkor on Oct 19, 2020 9:42:28 GMT -6
Send JKor albums.  There's definitely a vinyl revival in progress. I bet you could get decent money for them if you wanted to take the time to craigslist them. Probably a lot esaier to trade them in at a record shop, though. I can't believe what they get for used vinyl at those places. I bought Dylan's greatest hits last week for $16 used. |
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Post by Ken on Oct 19, 2020 10:21:35 GMT -6
I have ZERO plans to get back into vinyl so maybe I'm sitting on some money. I think that I would create ONE Craigslist posting and just include every title in there and people can just ask for what they want.
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Post by jkor on Oct 19, 2020 10:41:36 GMT -6
I have ZERO plans to get back into vinyl so maybe I'm sitting on some money. I think that I would create ONE Craigslist posting and just include every title in there and people can just ask for what they want. Yeah, that's how I would go. $5-$10 each depending on how desirable the title is. Here's something kind of funny I found...goes to show that vinyl really peaked in the late 70s. This is an Audio Technica LP120 that you can buy new on Amazon today:  This is a Technics SL-1200MK2 released in 1976.  |
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Post by jkor on Oct 19, 2020 11:20:25 GMT -6
In a bit of a coincidence I just learned that the dust cover for that one in the first pic fits exactly on my 1977 Technics. Apparently the Technics of that era all had about the same deck size and it hasn't changed in 40+ years. So I can get a dust cover for $35 instead of $200. Yay.
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Post by Ken on Oct 19, 2020 11:30:13 GMT -6
My Technics looked very similar to that but my guess is that mine was very cheap reasonably-priced since I didn't have much money back then. But the arm looked that way, the controls were very similar, the side of the platter had that pattern and there was a red light on it so you could see it spinning. I remember having four speakers... two smaller and two larger. I took the two small speakers and put a piece of plywood spanning across them and put something (like the tape deck) there. Then I put the two large speakers on either side and another piece of plywood spanning across there and put the tuner and turntable on that. In the space between the two small speakers I had my albums on their sides. It looked cool and cost me nothing. |
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Post by jkor on Oct 19, 2020 12:03:50 GMT -6
This site has a table of all the vintage Technics turntables with years produced, original MSRP, pics, etc. vintagetechnics.audio/turntables.phpThe one i got was $440 in 1977 which is roughly $1900 today. |
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Post by Ken on Oct 19, 2020 13:53:45 GMT -6
This site has a table of all the vintage Technics turntables with years produced, original MSRP, pics, etc. vintagetechnics.audio/turntables.phpThe one i got was $440 in 1977 which is roughly $1900 today. |
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Post by jkor on Oct 19, 2020 16:03:47 GMT -6
It was at the top end of their consumer line in 77-78, the next step up was over $1000 i believe.
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Post by jkor on Oct 19, 2020 22:07:48 GMT -6
You want to hear something crazy...I knew there was a vinyl revival but, damn.
In 2007 there were about 1M LPs sold, in 2019 it was 19M.
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Post by Ken on Oct 20, 2020 8:08:37 GMT -6
You want to hear something crazy...I knew there was a vinyl revival but, damn. In 2007 there were about 1M LPs sold, in 2019 it was 19M. I heard that a number of years ago... that LP sales had surpassed CDs. But streaming services are still #1. I think I'll start collecting music on punch cards. The revival will be real. I would bet on it.  |
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