Going through the process of sitting down and getting out a record. Looking at the songs on both sides as you lay it on the record player and set the needle. Sit back as the music begins scratching the first song through the speakers.

In comparison to pushing play on a cd player or iPOD it's like reading a great book or seeing it's mediocre movie counterpart.

there are millions and millions of music lovers who have never done what you are doing. (running a turntable) No Joke.

The first time in my life. It is one of the most relaxing and wonderful ways someone can listen to music. Makes me sad that I'm in the generation of music download-and-go.

Yeah, I remember back in my day. We didn't have them new-fangled toasting machines. We had to toast our bread over open fires. And we lived in caves. And those caves were damned cold. They didn't have no central heating. And we had to share the caves with bears and the Taliban.

That's right, we had to cook our toast over open fires in our Taliban and bear infested caves that had no central heating. Plus, the caves had bats, so we had bat**** everywhere, too. And you know how hard it is to vacuum up bat****? Especially since electricity hadn't been invented yet, nor had vacuums!

That's right, we were living in Taliban, bear and bat-infested caves that had no central heating and imaginary vacuums because we could only dream about something like electricity, and we had to toast our bread over an open fire, built on top of bat****, so it stunk to high heaven.

Except we couldn't dream about having electricity either. Nope, dreams hadn't been invented yet either. I don't think they came along until Sigmund Freud, and so if you were crazy, you had to stay in the cave all day.

You didn't mind, after all, you were crazy, but let me tell you...if it was your turn to watch the crazy guy, stuck in the Taliban, bear and bat infested cave all day, wishing you had a vacuum and some electricity because the fire was built on top of bat****, and the smell stunk to high heaven, you would have been damned glad to have some electricity and a new-fangled toasting machine. But the crazy people, they didn't mind. The smell didn't bother them, and they could stay in the cave all day.

And that, my friend, is how the term "bat**** crazy" came to be.

Wait...what were we talking about again?

there was always the really loud crack that happend on the 8trach machine right as you were drifting off from the weed

scared the hell out of ya

ahhh good times

I used to love to get stoned and watch the stacked records drop....

wheel,,

wow- 1st time? amazing....so amazing

i have a high school student here that collects albums. i was shocked when i heard that. a high tech country like japan, thought they would be nearly extinct.

one of my favorite bars is ALL vinyl. you name it, he pulls it out and puts it on. drinks are overpriced, but the music!!!

Records and turntables are all well and good... but I prefer the sound quality of the CD, myself.

a good turntable and tube amp could change your mind

at $15k each...

I've had friends that were kooky for stereo. They spent tens of thousands on their gear...and they were NEVER happy with it--LOL!

Wanna feel old?

I went to a Digital Music Summit in Hollywood--an industry event. One event was a panel of college jrs & srs who had been charged with illegally downloading music, and had agreed to participate in this panel discussion in lieu of prosecution.

Not ONE of these kids had ever even owned a CD or CD player---they were 100% download-based for their entire lives.

And this was 7 years ago.

me too. one was an md that reminded me of house. he ended up losing much of his equipment when he divorced his wife for the hot chick he was cheating with and had bought boobs for.

he was ok with it all.

re 7:

lluvia, to Country, afterwards: "wow- 1st time? amazing....so amazing"

ScottHar

Give me SACD any day. It has 65 times the resolution of CD. Literally. 65 times.

Of course, to realize the potential of such resolution, a performance needs to be recorded in the DSD native format used for SACD--simply remastering old recordings won't do.

SACD is also without the brittle harshness of CD (no upconversion/downconversion; that's where the shrillness comes from).

SACDs recorded with tubed front end has all the warmth of old vinyl, without the bandwidth limitations or surface noise. SACD players are available for a couple hundred bucks, so it ain't like you have to spend thousands.

SACD is the shiznit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Audio_CD 

People who love vinyl claim that the acoustic properties are better. However, they do not realize that the "warm" sound they get is actually audio distortion. Plus, the frequency response is worse on turntables than a CD player.

Not to mention there is continual worry from record warping, and damage the needle can do. Since the needle is harder than the material the record is made from, each turn of the turntable damages the record in a minute scale, such that after a while, a vinyl record loses its acoustic range over time.

And none of this is addressing the pops and scratches you normally hear from vinyl records.

In short: vinyl sucks.

#4. Hilarious. Well worth the price of admission.