Why vinyl

@wsrrsw 

Thanks for the tip on transferring playlists and also for connecting me to a new playlist. There are some dynamics tracks in the group as test tracks should be…

Oddly enough I was at my local high-end audio shop today and that very subject came up. They gave me another source, Soundiiz.com, so I’ll be looking into that process. 

I was hesitant to start a new playlist library in Tidal or Quobuz because I got burned when I had 4,500 hand picked tracks of music in then, iTunes, when my hard-d rive died and took all of that music away. I took it to a couple of places including the Genius Techs, no joy! One company offered to do a deep dive of the drive with no guarantee to recover the library of music for $2,200, which cost more than a new computer at that time. It tool 2 years to create the library. I was still working then. Now I’ve done this again with Spotify.

Coming full circle back to “Vinyl. I was up in the wee hours last night re-cabling my whole system with upgraded XLR cables. I felt like a telephone switchboard operator from the old days rifling through the myriad of cables. This was all initiated by the recent purchases of Phono PreAmp, Turntable and Streaming DAC…I was using my old system's lesser cables.

Once completed at around 4:00am, out came the vinyl to test the system. I too out an old standard that I know every note of, Miles Davis’ “Kind Of Blue” and played the two most popular tracks, “All Blues” and “So What”. I’ve listen to those tunes a thousand times but none as good as I heard them last night. It was a new album, a gift from a younger audiophile friend  (I have an old, well used copy). The clarity without pops or crackling was beautiful! I had a moment!!! My soul was full!!

@faustuss 

The world has a need for purists!

@mdalton 

My Dad made it 95 years and 10 months. After he moved to Assisted Living, where he played jazz piano for his fellow residents every Tuesday and Saturday’s. They gave him a nickname that he cherished, “Jazzman Gus”. he lived on the 2nd floor and even though there was an elevator he always took the stairs. He would say, “The stairs keep you healthy!” Growing as a kid my dad walked everywhere with the car parked in front of the house and I walked with him and had to learn how to keep up.

Perhaps you could start with your father-in-law introducing him to music using headphones, or earbuds, getting his ears closer to the music. It may take a while to find a genre that he responds to but I would start with perhaps music of his younger  days that may bring back memories of a bygone era for him.

Like my dad did with my uncles, we could always talk music. He from back-in-the-day and me introducing him to the music of the day that still had character.

My Dad passed-away listening to his favorite music with me by his side. The greatest gift he gave me was the love of music!…

@mdalton 

Which started with “Vinyl!”

@mdalton 

"Yep, I try to take care of my aging father-in-law as best I can (he’s 90), and the single most important thing for him is he needs to keep moving, rather than just sitting in front of the tv and wait to die.  If only I could get him interested in vinyl?  He’d have to get up out of that chair every 30 minutes or so.  Alas, he can barely hear, and has never had much interest in music."

We've spent the last 20 years looking after our 3 surviving parents while approaching late middle age and all that entails ourselves. They become incredibly needy and because of the lifestyle that generation led its inevitable that they all but completely lose their mobility. My partners father spent five years in a wheelchair from heart failure, type II diabetes, leaky valves and extreme edema in his lower legs and he passed away a year ago last October at the age of 95, now its just the two of us.

All you can hope to do is the right thing. Ultimately, its a healthy learning experience and while he was still mobile and living in his own home, we were able to provide a great deal of enrichment so the three of us wound up becoming best friends and we only became closer up until his passing.

@ctlesq 

"Vinyl is just sex."

Mmm, sex!

@oddiofyl 

"Listening to Morphine Cure For Pain.   This album sounds so big and so live compared to it's CD counterpart."

I bought the Runout Groove of Cure for Pain No 000087 based on a review from one of the leading hifi magazines and immediately hooked. I currently have their complete studio discography on vinyl and they're from the neighborhood!

@gjfalls 

"The world has a need for purists!"

Thank you, sir, yes it certainly does! All the best with your vinyl endeavors.