BaL 14.12.19/11.4.20 - Schubert Piano Quintet in A major "The Trout"

[Maclintick]

Ah, a happy reminder that my copy of the Curzon (Decca SXL 6238-41 Vienna Chamber Music Festival) is on good old vinyl. Stuff the neophytes and their obsession with little silver discs, nothing but nothing beats the satisfaction of lowering the tone-arm onto that black revolving LP. And, to my jaded ears, LPs still sound wonderful, clicks, scratches and all.

I have that LP, & still "lower the tone arm" when I feel the need, HD. An undeniable classic. Curzon's late recording of the Bb D.960 is another such...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I just enjoy lowering the tone.

No arm in it.

[pastoralguy]

And, to my jaded ears, LPs still sound wonderful, clicks, scratches and all.

I presume you didn't have to share a record player with a sister who thought records and strawberry jam were a good mix!

[pastoralguy]

I just enjoy lowering the tone.

No arm in it.

[Ein Heldenleben]

This has been posted before....



© The New Yorker

This otherwise hideously accurate New Yorker Cartoon has , for some reason , left off the dust bug.

[silvestrione]

Ah, a happy reminder that my copy of the Curzon (Decca SXL 6238-41 Vienna Chamber Music Festival) is on good old vinyl. Stuff the neophytes and their obsession with little silver discs, nothing but nothing beats the satisfaction of lowering the tone-arm onto that black revolving LP. And, to my jaded ears, LPs still sound wonderful, clicks, scratches and all.

I suppose we have ears that are trained to edit them out! But my 45 year old son has suddenly gone big on vinyl, and I can't quite understand why. He asked for a Debussy piano vinyl disc for Christmas, and I was sceptical, but to my astonishment, my first thought, the relatively obscure (?) Seong-Jin Cho's disc, IS available on vinyl!

[LeMartinPecheur]

This otherwise hideously accurate New Yorker Cartoon has , for some reason , left off the dust bug.

Dust Bug! If he ever owned one the guy in the cartoon would have discarded it on reading the pundits' opinion that the random vibrations generated by its bristles might be transmitted to the stylus

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I suppose we have ears that are trained to edit them out! But my 45 year old son has suddenly gone big on vinyl, and I can't quite understand why. He asked for a Debussy piano vinyl disc for Christmas, and I was sceptical, but to my astonishment, my first thought, the relatively obscure (?) Seong-Jin Cho's disc, IS available on vinyl!

I did wonder whether to highlight the vinyl recordings in the weekly BaL lists, but decided against it.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I suppose we have ears that are trained to edit them out! But my 45 year old son has suddenly gone big on vinyl, and I can't quite understand why. He asked for a Debussy piano vinyl disc for Christmas, and I was sceptical, but to my astonishment, my first thought, the relatively obscure (?) Seong-Jin Cho's disc, IS available on vinyl!

I did wonder whether to highlight the vinyl recordings in the weekly BaL lists, but decided against it.

I think the fascination with vinyl is more to do with the mechanics - rather like admiring a clock in a glass case, with all the workings visible.

[CallMePaul]

Classical vinyl sales are negligible.

I was in the Manchester HMV this afternoon. Although a large part of the upper floor of this shop is devoted to vinyl, I would estimate that only about 1% of the vinyl space is given over to classical. Other "specialist music" (HMV's term) genres (folk, world, jazz, blues etc )don't get much either. Between them about 20% of the CD space is given over to genres other than pop, rock, metal and soul.

[akiralx]

Stuff the neophytes and their obsession with little silver discs, nothing but nothing beats the satisfaction of lowering the tone-arm onto that black revolving LP. And, to my jaded ears, LPs still sound wonderful, clicks, scratches and all.

Hark at the trendy greenhorn with his new-fangled LPs... what's wrong with 78s, for heaven's sake?

[Bryn]

Hark at the trendy greenhorn with his new-fangled LPs... what's wrong with 78s, for heaven's sake?

What's wrong with them?! They're flat and the stylus wobbles from side to side. Proper records are cylindrical and the stylus goes up and down over hill and dale.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

What's wrong with them?! They're flat and the stylus wobbles from side to side. Proper records are cylindrical and the stylus goes up and down over hill and dale.

[kernelbogey]

Being repeated just now.

[LeMartinPecheur]

What's wrong with them?! They're flat and the stylus wobbles from side to side. Proper records are cylindrical and the stylus goes up and down over hill and dale.

And at constant velocity, so no end-of-side distortion An advantage that will doubtless see it triumph in the fulness of time, just like Betamax