How are your vinyls? What! You know vinyls!

gfong
gfong Posts: 1,079
edited March 2011 in The Clubhouse
:smile: Rambling on about the use of the word vinyls!

My son visited last night and says to me that he bought his first small vinyl!
I laughed out loud and then told him they were called 45's!

He exclaims, what! I explained to him why 45's exsisted and he then started calling them 45 vinyls! :rolleyes:

Again I stated no, they are 45 rpm records, pressed onto vinyl! Just like you would say a 33 1/3 rpm record. He says to me you mean vinyls! I gave up and I honestly thought that he was joking about the term, but in conversation he used it again.

He still wanted to call them vinyls by the end of the night.

I go to another website today and I see a thread entitled:
Are these Beatles vinyls valuable??

Why are the younger generation using the term vinyls? I understand the loose use of the word vinyl as in "Are there any new vinyl releases". I don't like the use of it, but I get it!

I even have a tough time when someone calls a "cd" an album!

But ........ this "vinyls" thing is driving me up the wall. :smile:
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  • thesurfer
    thesurfer Posts: 574
    edited March 2011
    Probally because that was the term that introduced him to the format,, or the term used by his friends, kinda like back in the day,,, whenever one of my friends had transmission problems with there cars, and had to change them, they would always refer to the transmission, as a tranny,, hey, blew my tranny in my nova,,, or the tranny starting to slip,, Drove my dad nuts,, what the **** a tranny, hed say,
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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited March 2011
    Same silliness as when people refer to the computer case as the CPU. No you idiot! the cpu is inside the computer case in a socket on the motherboard! One of my all time top pet peeves, but people refering to records as vinyls is on the list as well.
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,220
    edited March 2011
    Record?? Vinyl?? Really?? "180gm Vinyl Record" It's used everywhere you buy Vinyl Records. I don't see the problem, it has been used since I was an 18 year old working at Budget tapes and records..
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited March 2011
    Sweet! I'm gonna start calling my CD's and DVD's my "polycarbonates"! Sounds way cooler. CD and DVD sound like venereal diseases.
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited March 2011
    just like younger people calling this or that "junk" that word can have 10 different meanings in one conversation. those silly kids and their vinyl's :confused:
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  • gfong
    gfong Posts: 1,079
    edited March 2011
    TOOLFORLIFEFAN wrote: »
    Record?? Vinyl?? Really?? "180gm Vinyl Record" It's used everywhere you buy Vinyl Records. I don't see the problem, it has been used since I was an 18 year old working at Budget tapes and records..

    Did you read what I wrote? I did not say anything about the word vinyl! I agree with you on the the usage as you used it in your sentances. I said "vinyls."

    Do you call records, vinyls? Would you use that word in your sentance, 180g vinyls?

    I think I know where the younger gen is getting it from! :rolleyes::wink: (I'm joking)


    I hope you all see my smiley at the start and end of my first post! I am not really freaked out about this, it just sounds funny/odd!
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  • PolkClyde
    PolkClyde Posts: 662
    edited March 2011
    gfong wrote: »
    :smile: Rambling on about the use of the word vinyls!

    My son visited last night and says to me that he bought his first small vinyl!
    I laughed out loud and then told him they were called 45's!

    He exclaims, what! I explained to him why 45's exsisted and he then started calling them 45 vinyls! :rolleyes:

    Again I stated no, they are 45 rpm records, pressed onto vinyl! Just like you would say a 33 1/3 rpm record. He says to me you mean vinyls! I gave up and I honestly thought that he was joking about the term, but in conversation he used it again.

    He still wanted to call them vinyls by the end of the night.

    I go to another website today and I see a thread entitled:
    Are these Beatles vinyls valuable??

    Why are the younger generation using the term vinyls? I understand the loose use of the word vinyl as in "Are there any new vinyl releases". I don't like the use of it, but I get it!

    I even have a tough time when someone calls a "cd" an album!

    But ........ this "vinyls" thing is driving me up the wall. :smile:

    Don't let it drive yo up the wall,being a formal DJ,I like both words, Vinyl and 45's.that's what they are.Hey, I love the word Album,also.CD's are still Albums.

    Define Album:one or more recordings issued together; originally released on 12-inch phonograph records (usually with attractive record covers) and later on cassette audiotape and compact disc
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,763
    edited March 2011
    are vinyls like rubbers?
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,220
    edited March 2011
    gfong wrote: »
    Did you read what I wrote? I did not say anything about the word vinyl! I agree with you on the the usage as you used it in your sentances. I said "vinyls."

    Do you call records, vinyls? Would you use that word in your sentance, 180g vinyls?

    I think I know where the younger gen is getting it from! :rolleyes::wink: (I'm joking)


    I hope you all see my smiley at the start and end of my first post! I am not really freaked out about this, it just sounds funny/odd!


    :cool::biggrin::wink::tongue: Go play with your vinyls!! I got it:eek: thats what I get for trying to sneak in here on work hours. I should not respond to a quick read..:redface:
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  • gfong
    gfong Posts: 1,079
    edited March 2011
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    are vinyls like rubbers?

    lol, could be , you have your small 45 vinyls and your Extended Play vinyls!
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  • m1aman
    m1aman Posts: 143
    edited March 2011
    They are records, not vinyls. Similar thing is annoying when people call magazines, clips.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,763
    edited March 2011
    we could start calling audio tapes "Mylars" (or, more generically, "polyesters")...

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    ... oh, and, come to think of it, acetate transcription disks are known far and wide as "acetates".
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited March 2011
    Go really old school and call them "waxes":cool:
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited March 2011
    I'm thinking of detaching the cartridge from my TT and applying it to my neighbor's VINYL(s). He's got a LOT OF VINYL 'siding' over there! I might pick up some nice tunes....you think? lol

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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited March 2011
    I like the word vinyls, never heard it used that way. I like to clean my vinyls with one of those VPIers and a Hunt broom, not to mention some shark spray and a good shocker.
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    edited March 2011
    I was actually wondering the other day... And then I ran across this thread... Do any of you here who're into vinyl actually ever spin 45s? IIRC, the audio quality wasn't as good as the LPs. I always thought the higher RPMs just made the pops and skips happen more frequently.
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  • gfong
    gfong Posts: 1,079
    edited March 2011
    mdaudioguy wrote: »
    I was actually wondering the other day... And then I ran across this thread... Do any of you here who're into vinyl actually ever spin 45s? IIRC, the audio quality wasn't as good as the LPs. I always thought the higher RPMs just made the pops and skips happen more frequently.

    A few days ago I listened to Prince, 1999/Little Red Corvette and John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band, On the Dark Side/Tender Years.

    They did not sound that bad! Prince 45 sounded really good. Cafferty had a few scratches that could be heard the odd time.

    Too many trips back and forth from the couch, I quit after those 2! :)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,763
    edited March 2011
    I think that a lot of the vintage 7" 45 singles were pressed on polystyrene instead of polyvinyl chloride. That's a big part of the reason why the surface noise is high and the resistance to needle wear low.

    There are also marvelous 12" vinyl 45 rpm audiophile pressings, though. Not to mention the 12" 45 singles of the early 1980s.
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited March 2011
    Then....there are the Divinyls !:biggrin:

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