Why vinyl

@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.

For me the goal is to be a vinyl playback ninja.  That's how I envision an impressive, audiophile master.  Like a Samurai who wields an ancient weapon with hard-won skill and precision, they can use modern forms of combat, but know there is but one that really defines who and what they are.  

@audiodidact 

"For me the goal is to be a vinyl playback ninja.  That's how I envision an impressive, audiophile master.  Like a Samurai who wields an ancient weapon with hard-won skill and precision, they can use modern forms of combat, but know there is but one that really defines who and what they are."

At your age?