Re: mostly likely smallest record shop in Toronto
By: August Abolins to A.M. Rowsell on Sun Dec 24 2023 13:05:00

Unless it's a recording that I *want* to hear in its entirety
and in the same familiar order, CDs offer more convenience of
track selection, better dynamic range...

That's true, and I do have a 300CD carousel machine that I've used for years. But there *are* lots of albums that I think deserve to be listened to as full albums, especially the first time, and vinyl sort of gives the artist the power to have you listen to their art in the way they originally intended, to some degree. As a matter of fact, there are a few CDs I own where the artist put the entire album as track 1, or split it into 4 "tracks" each with 3-4 songs, so that you'd have to listen to it like an album or 8-track. But I also sometimes just want to hear this particular song, right now, and so I have a huge digital music library for that.

seemed to be an average $25. Now, they seem to be no less than
$36, and with many more "versions" like different coloured

The one thing my dad has always pointed out about recent vinyl (especially compared to the 80s) is how amazingly high-quality the physical vinyl is. It's heavier, thicker, and denser. He told me that at one point they started shredding records and remelting them to make new ones, and that occasionally little bits of label would make it through the process and you could actually see it in the record! And that they would wear out very quickly, almost like dub plates, you'd get like 5-10 good quality passes and then the high end would start to roll off with each play after that. I have albums that I've listened to many, many times and they still sound fabulous. It's also important to have a quality stylus and to set up the weight and balance, etc. There's something a bit more physical and visceral about putting a record on. The fact that it has its own little ritual (picking an album, pulling it out, pulling the sleeve out, placing the record on the platter, cleaning it with the lint brush, then lowering the tonearm...) is also attractive. You sort of have to work for it, and really think about what you want to hear.

And this is why I own a turntable, tape deck, 300CD player, plus a digital connection from a computer into the amplifier (it's nice that it has TOSLINK in!). I can pick and choose depending on my mood :)
Aurelius
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