Listening habits.


Many on this forum seem to listen to LP’s almost exclusively.  
I’m wondering of those of you who do, how many have done so since the fall of CDs and how many have just never stopped listening to records?

rvpiano

@newton_john ok. That’s no problem. Plenty of original vinyl out there. In addition the new reissues done by some very skilled dudes like Kevin Gray will blow away the remastered crap. And when I say blow away I am not exaggerating. You just can’t get this sound on streaming. 

Older stuff that was remastered is not worth the effort with streaming for the most part.

So true. The number of worthy remasters in my experience can be counted on one hand. Robin Lane & The Chartbusters is one of the few candidates, if only to help assure that the quintessential rock recording OAT, "Don’t Wait Till Tomorrow," is not yet lost to memory.

I never stopped listening to records, but I listen to many formats.  I listen mostly to vinyl records, shellac records, CDs, and streaming.  I also listen to celluloid records and wax records, but not as often as the other formats.  I have one turntable for vinyl, one for shellac, and I have some old record players that play celluloid and wax records.  I've thought about getting an Archeophone (google it) to play celluloid and wax records on my main system, but I have not purchased one.

@audphile1 

Absolutely. I can tolerate a few pops and clicks on old records, if the music sounds great. 

My LPs were destroyed in a house flood in 1985.  I was ready for digital, having been fed up with noisy and warped records.  However I couldn’t afford a CD player and the full priced discs, so I was preparing to repurchase some LPs but they were disappearing from shops.  Ultimately scrapped together enough to buy a CDP and a few discs but mainly listened to the radio for about a decade.

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