Can you imagine a world without vinyl?

Sic transit gloria

Yes, it's heartbreaking that people go to the trouble to write this sort of tripe, and it's double-heartbreaking they come over to an analogue/vinyl forum to do so. Read this, it may help you develop an ear for music, if such things are the result of Nurture and not Nature: A Man Who Found Music

Jsadurni, it's human nature to resist change. But, change is the one thing you can count on. For sure, I can clearly see the day that you describe above. Frightening too.

That is a great story you wrote, is your real name Stephen King?

I am sorry I didnt mean to hurt (or tripe) anybody I was just picturing a world without vinyl, after I did come to find that picture film was gone.
I was a vinyl diehard, in the 80´s a friend brought over to my place one of the first CD players to show me how it was better than vinyl,we hooked it up to my Fisher 6BQ5 tubed amp (sacrilege in those times) and we compared both CD and Lp (Rush Moving Pictures) and it was clear to me then Vinyl was better (even my friend agreed) I had a NAD TT with an AudioTechnica MM cartridge back then. I bought my first CD in 1994 (Marillion "Brave") and a Nakamichi CD player to go with it, LPs were getting scarce by then.
Yes I am on your side, with vinyl I breath better, but I do enjoy CD playing and have been putting more money into Digital than into vinyl lately, I sold my very expensive preamp with phono about a year ago and I am looking for a good phono stage. So I have been without vinyl for a while and I am surprised I havent missed it that much.
So hang me...

All the Best

If I imagine a world without vinyl, I imagine the death of high end audio.

How many audiophiles will we loose when it is finally (erroneously) accepted that Digital is better than vinyl?

I heard not without sadness a couple of months ago a friend tell me that he was trying to sell his beloved Leika camera with the complete set of lenses and could get nothing on Ebay, he even accepted the fact that digital photos in high res are much better than film.

This is partially true because in digital photography the quality output is in the hands of THE CREATOR who controls the resolution of THAT digital format.

Digital camera format, resolution and processing has substantially improved in quality every few months for the past 10 years. The digital format for our audiophile music system is approaching it's 22 birthday, still stuck in the same limited format controlled by music giants with no intention of catering to our need for great quality.

...imagine a world without vinyl?
Imagine a Teres wood turntable half burnt inside a dumpster in a NYC street, imagine your Triplanar arm stuck with no box in your sock drawer cause you didn’t have the guts to throw it away, you pick it up and a thread from your wool sock is stuck on the needle of your Koestu Urushi, you proceed to very carefully with shaking hands unwrap the thread from around the stylus when you notice it is completely ruined, imagine your 50 boxes of LPs out in the yard under the rain and you are looking at them with a tear in your eye while your grandsons are thowing stones at the boxes with who knows what inside.

Yes, that could happen when you're old enough to have grandkids. So go ahead and fool yourself into believing that the digital format is the best, and you give up the possibility of hearing how wonderful and natural real music can be. Perhaps you even know this, deep in your heart but like so many today, unwilling to make the commitment. Just attack what requires more work, attack what you don't have, attack what your not committed to with the sour grapes routine

You can fool yourself, holding in your hand a remote with a screen on it and all the music in those boxes is at your palm, alphabetically ordered by song by author by performer.

it's called an iPod or music server and it does sound better because most people no longer have a superior analog format to it compare to.

....you remember the ten times you rehooked your Micro Seiki 8000 only to notice after the first couple of minutes your new XXX internet player does sound better, you kinda remeber now that there were some details you enjoyed better on you TT only to realize again that for the eleventh time you might drag the air pump from the basement, lift the 40 pound platter and rehook the entire setup to be shown again that yes, it is not better that the new digital.

far better to tell yourself that what you have now is better. After all, it's SO much easier, SO much cheaper and SO very modern. It MUST be right format because it's what's easily available. There is no way the music giants would stick us with an inferior format just because it cost less and is controlled by two music companies. Later to come up with SACD in a half hearted effort because their patents were expiring and then left us holding the bag.

Did I paint a clear enough picture of a world without vinyl yet?

Yes you did, fortunately I don't have to live in that world

Hope I didn’t break Jsadurni's heart....because I did not correct his spelling errors, simply copied and pasted, so hang me....