Does anyone still use or like vinyl?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Minidiscs probably suffered because people did not know which way turn, the format being launched at the same time as the DCC (digital compact cassette). Immediately, I recalled the VHS/Betamax battle and held back, as did many others. In the end, it was recordable CDs that superceded both.

My experience, too, Alpie.

[MrGongGong]

Does anybody have one of those Sony boxes that used to attach to a video cassette recorder to do digital stereo?

I remember borrowing one in the late 1980's (I think ?) to do a mix of a band I was in
but can't remember much more than us thinking how cool we were using it

[Stunsworth]

Does anyone know the sampling rates and bit depths they used back then?

According to this review in The Gramophone the EMI one was 15(?) bit, 50k...

http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/July%201979/125/750999/AUDIO+NEWS

This page mentions in passing that the Decca one was 16, later 20 bit, 48k - and has some photographs...

http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=8386

[LeMartinPecheur]

Back with the original subject, I'm thoroughly enjoying the weird sounds emanating from a 6-LP set I bought a few weeks ago for 50p (sic): lovely DGG c1970 black shiny discs, apparently unplayed.

It's called "avant garde vol 2" and includes Cage (simultaneous perormances of the same 3 works as at the Prom the other week - Atlas Eclipticalis, Winter Music and Cartridge Music), Zimmermann, Stockhausen, Kagel, Koenig, Pongracz, Riehn, Schnebel, and improvisations by Gruppe Nuova Consonanza. Only the sleeve-notes could be better

Totally silent pressings and a Linn Sondek - who needs digital??

[Bryn]

Back with the original subject, I'm thoroughly enjoying the weird sounds emanating from a 6-LP set I bought a few weeks ago for 50p (sic): lovely DGG c1970 black shiny discs, apparently unplayed.

It's called "avant garde vol 2" and includes Cage (simultaneous perormances of the same 3 works as at the Prom the other week - Atlas Eclipticalis, Winter Music and Cartridge Music), Zimmermann, Stockhausen, Kagel, Koenig, Riehn, Schnebel, and improvisations by Gruppe Nuova Consonanza. Only the sleeve-notes could be better

Totally silent pressings and a Linn Sondek - who needs digital??

Who needs a 12" turntable, a tone arm and a pickup cartridge:

http://wolffifth.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/cage-schnebel-atlas-eclipticalis-winter.html

The rest of AG Vol. 2 is there too.

[AmpH]

Totally silent pressings and a Linn Sondek - who needs digital??

I agree LMP - I still play wonderful vinyl discs often ...... but on my Pink Triangle / SME IV record deck Mind you my cd collection is twice the size of my LP collection now !

[LeMartinPecheur]

Who needs a 12" turntable, a tone arm and a pickup cartridge:

http://wolffifth.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/cage-schnebel-atlas-eclipticalis-winter.html

The rest of AG Vol. 2 is there too.

bryn: please leave me with my illusions (delusions).

I don't have much use for downloads - I'm a collector for heaven's sakes - but could I really get 6 LPs'-worth for 50p???

[cloughie]

bryn: please leave me with my illusions (delusions).

I don't have much use for downloads - I'm a collector for heaven's sakes - but could I really get 6 LPs'-worth for 50p???

Not my bag but at at 50p they would have been in it!

[Bryn]

bryn: please leave me with my illusions (delusions).

I don't have much use for downloads - I'm a collector for heaven's sakes - but could I really get 6 LPs'-worth for 50p???

I forget just how much I paid for that set on its release, but it was a lot more than ten bob.

[By the way, great resource that the wolf fifth site is, beware of trojans hiding in at least one of the advertising pages generated by it. Avast just trapped one for me.]

[cloughie]

Back with the original subject, I'm thoroughly enjoying the weird sounds emanating from a 6-LP set I bought a few weeks ago for 50p (sic): lovely DGG c1970 black shiny discs, apparently unplayed.

It's called "avant garde vol 2" and includes Cage (simultaneous perormances of the same 3 works as at the Prom the other week - Atlas Eclipticalis, Winter Music and Cartridge Music), Zimmermann, Stockhausen, Kagel, Koenig, Pongracz, Riehn, Schnebel, and improvisations by Gruppe Nuova Consonanza. Only the sleeve-notes could be better

Totally silent pressings and a Linn Sondek - who needs digital??

Which Cornish car-boot?

[LeMartinPecheur]

Which Cornish car-boot?

The general s/h shop in Fore St, Bodmin. I came away with 2 CDs (Tokyo 4tet in Haydn Op76) and 9 LPs (avant garde 2 box, Delius Miniatures - Del Mar, Copland conducting his Short & Dance symphonies, and "Courtly Pastimes of 16th century England" by St George's Canzona) all for less than a fiver!

[cloughie]

The general s/h shop in Fore St, Bodmin. I came away with 2 CDs (Tokyo 4tet in Haydn Op76) and 9 LPs (avant garde 2 box, Delius Miniatures - Del Mar, Copland conducting his Short & Dance symphonies, and "Courtly Pastimes of 16th century England" by St George's Canzona) all for less than a fiver!

A good browse!

[Serial_Apologist]

A good browse!

Indeed: high browse!

[notinajumalainukhaju]

Haven't you heard ...

... vinyl is back - at ridiculous prices. Hang on to what you've got. From the first digital note I ever heard to a recent listen of an LP after decades, analog wins every time. Pixelated v brush strokes. The CD 'revolution' was a cynical marketing ploy of an already obsolete technology when it was introduced in the 80s.

[MrGongGong]

aaah one of the rare humans who seems to be able to detect individual grains at 44.1
or even 48 and beyond