vinyl sure sounds sweet!

Erik Tracy
Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
edited January 2014 in Music & Movies
I've been cleaning up some used LPs I picked up that have been laying around for too long.

I'm spinning this one right now:
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Unbelievable - split spine cover, who knows how this has been played but after cleaning this up on the RCM with some MF cleaner and rinse.....dead quiet....dynamic...spacious...and that liquid continuity of good ol' analog.

H9: If you don't trust what you are hearing, then maybe you need to be less invested in a hobby which all the pleasure comes from listening to music.
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  • thsmith
    thsmith Posts: 6,082
    edited January 2014
    Poco is one of my favorites, Blue and Grey being my favorite album by Poco.

    I find cleaning vinyl to be therapeutic or maybe it is the vinyl I am listening to as I clean.
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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited January 2014
    I've never really been a Poco fan or follower - in fact this is my first. This came up for sale and so I figure what the heck.

    The sound is amazing - I've yet to even hear a tick or pop - and the sq is impressive.

    H9: If you don't trust what you are hearing, then maybe you need to be less invested in a hobby which all the pleasure comes from listening to music.
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  • thsmith
    thsmith Posts: 6,082
    edited January 2014
    Blue and Grey pops up at Half Priced Books quite often. It is excellent and very well recorded.
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  • jacks2start
    jacks2start Posts: 98
    edited January 2014
    really digging some of the colored vinyl
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  • recoveryone
    recoveryone Posts: 900
    edited January 2014
    Quick question or this may turn into a discussion, how many of you grew up listening to vinyl? and during what time period? For me it goes back to the early 60's and the Motown sound filled the house, along with gospel. The quality of the recordings was always lacking in my mind, but with nothing else to compare you enjoyed what you had. 45's were the standard format (cost about 25-50 cent as a kid) and they suffered heavy abuse, like many CD's do today. Now for me I remember the needle dropping and hearing the first few seconds of hiss, pop, crackle then the music. It was not hard to embrace the other formats that followed (8 Track and Cassettes) just for the portability factor. I was a heavy vinyl user in my college days, but soon as I heard a CD I was hooked. No hiss, no pop and no crackle just the music. As one that has lived through much of the major changes in music styles and playback technology I seek more of the live or studio sound over the analog warmth.
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  • Msabot1
    Msabot1 Posts: 2,098
    edited January 2014
    Vinyl sounds sweet because the human hearing characteristic is more in tune to the roll off frequency in analog material. It also helps to have good source material and decent equipment to play it on...
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  • StantonZ
    StantonZ Posts: 444
    edited January 2014
    My introduction to music was in the 70's, and I still have a lot of vinyl (mostly jazz/fusion) from the 70's & 80's; I also have a large (home-made) cassette collection from that era because: 1) I never "re-purchased" a lot of what I had on CD, and 2) I wanted my LP's to last a LONG time.
    Some of my biggest "revelations" were getting my first Technics turntable and later a Grado cartridge (not to mention my first pair of Polks). It's since been replaced by a B&O (which still sounds great), but I recently picked up a Nakamichi Cassette Deck 1 that has really made my old tapes sound new again!
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  • Mike Reeter
    Mike Reeter Posts: 4,315
    edited January 2014
    I came up in the 60's and 70's when vinyl or tape was the only form of physical material. I started enjoying music when I was very young, Elvis was a huge impact in the music scene at that time.

    I still have my first purchased album of the Beatles, a mono recording titled "Beatles '65" I was 12 yrs. old at the time.

    I played an original 1968 "In Search of the Lost Chord" yesterday, 46 years later the album sounded better than the day I bought it, much better table and associated equipment today.

    For me, getting back into vinyl was just like "coming home again" I'm glad I was able to salvage some of my original collection, although most of it isn't in "playable" condition, they suffered through way too many parties back in the day.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,917
    edited January 2014
    we had shellac when I was growin' up! ;-)

    (no, not really - I am old but not that old...)
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  • Mike Reeter
    Mike Reeter Posts: 4,315
    edited January 2014
    thsmith wrote: »
    Blue and Grey pops up at Half Priced Books quite often. It is excellent and very well recorded.

    Do you ever go down to Vinyl Renaissance in Overland Park, or their Westport store? They have a good collection, but damn there pricey. Just curious if the Half Priced Books vinyl is any less expensive, I've yet to stop in there.
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  • thsmith
    thsmith Posts: 6,082
    edited January 2014
    Hey Mike, yeah I have checked them out and have a good selection and a great place for new vinyl. I still prefer half priced, good selection, great prices and lots of changing inventory.

    Austin TX is great for a weekend of vinyl shopping.
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  • Mike Reeter
    Mike Reeter Posts: 4,315
    edited January 2014
    thsmith wrote: »
    Hey Mike, yeah I have checked them out and have a good selection and a great place for new vinyl. I still prefer half priced, good selection, great prices and lots of changing inventory.

    Austin TX is great for a weekend of vinyl shopping.

    I'll have to get by and check them out the next time we are in the city.

    Thanks, Mike
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  • StantonZ
    StantonZ Posts: 444
    edited January 2014
    I've shopped for LP's/CD's in BOTH of those cities/places: KC and Austin. Lived in one and went to school in the other. Collected all my Steely Dan in Austin, and my single greatest find was in Westport (in KC): the 12" extended version of Al Jarreau's Moonlighting (only issued for radio play)!
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  • pumpkinman
    pumpkinman Posts: 9,887
    edited January 2014
    thsmith wrote: »
    Poco is one of my favorites, Blue and Grey being my favorite album by Poco.

    I find cleaning vinyl to be therapeutic or maybe it is the vinyl I am listening to as I clean.

    I'm in agreement here. I love the whole vinyl process. I had a ton of 45's at one time and bought my 1st LP around 1969.
    Also I see Poco's Blue and Grey LP all the time and it can usually be had for $1 or $2.
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  • leftwinger57
    leftwinger57 Posts: 2,917
    edited January 2014
    RCO, my vinyl period was in the late 60s early 70s.I think my 1st set of 5 albums from Sears were Blues Project Live at Cafe Au GoGo,Surrealist Pillow,Fresh Cream, John Mayall w/ Clapton "Beano album",and I think the orignal Fleetwwod Mac w/ Peter Green.I was heavy into British blues at the time. Funny there was a thread a month or so ago about 10 worst things to care for your LPs.My choice was spindle stacking,I figured if the machine did it then let the machine do the work and sit back and watchem drop. Just today I hit my local GoodWill and picked up Todd Rundren something Anything double lp,Glenn Cabell Live in Jersey dbl lp,Linda Ronstadt,and Jackson Browne The Pretender all for a big $3.49 all in just a swipe and sweep condition.My 1st tt was a drop top Zenith and then I advanced to a Dual 1229 w/ the United Audio beveled base.
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  • jacks2start
    jacks2start Posts: 98
    edited January 2014
    hitting a few places tomorrow and do some digging
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  • voltz
    voltz Posts: 5,384
    edited January 2014
    I grew up listening to Vinyl from the 60's and 70's also. At 1st it was all Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves & Marty Robbins cause that is all my dad would buy LOL! Then my crazy baby sitter played nothing but "Grand Funk" :) my other neighbor played Alice coopers "Billion dollar Babies" so loud everyone on the block could hear it ! oh how I love Sick things" :)
    My 1st LP I bought was Kansas Leftoverture and EJ's double album "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
    not far from me is "QUAILTY RECORD PRESSINGS" so I been buying alot new 180-200 gram virgin vinyl new releases like "Steppenwolf" 1st LP.
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  • Mike Reeter
    Mike Reeter Posts: 4,315
    edited January 2014
    voltz wrote: »
    I grew up listening to Vinyl from the 60's and 70's also. At 1st it was all Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves & Marty Robbins cause that is all my dad would buy LOL! Then my crazy baby sitter played nothing but "Grand Funk" :) my other neighbor played Alice coopers "Billion dollar Babies" so loud everyone on the block could hear it ! oh how I love Sick things" :)
    My 1st LP I bought was Kansas Leftoverture and EJ's double album "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
    not far from me is "QUAILTY RECORD PRESSINGS" so I been buying alot new 180-200 gram virgin vinyl new releases like "Steppenwolf" 1st LP.

    I wish I lived closer to Salina Ks. Do you ever attend any of the Blues events that Chad puts on?
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  • voltz
    voltz Posts: 5,384
    edited January 2014
    YES!! its awesome :) I got to see my favorite blues man "DOUG MACLEOD" :) there doing some awesome pressing there, They have been doing alot of this straight to vinyl stuff with the blues which is prety cool! of course I've bought DUBB's :) I saw Marquise Knox! I didnt know I'd love the blues so much, maybe its a really nice change.
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  • Mike Reeter
    Mike Reeter Posts: 4,315
    edited January 2014
    voltz wrote: »
    YES!! its awesome :) I got to see my favorite blues man "DOUG MACLEOD" :) there doing some awesome pressing there, They have been doing alot of this straight to vinyl stuff with the blues which is prety cool! of course I've bought DUBB's :) I saw Marquise Knox! I didnt know I'd love the blues so much, maybe its a really nice change.

    Cool stuff, I need to make a trip out there one day, would love to check it all out.
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