Ben by Daniel Shelton for November 09, 2022

Vinyl has come back and is highly collectible, if it is a good record to begin with.

I have a lot of 45’s and albums.

For revolutionizing mobile music ya gotta give 8track tapes due credit, but for quality and longevity, not so much.

Ben’s full of beans! It just sounds different. It doesn’t sound better. I got a hundred million songs in my pocket. I don’t need the LP tea ceremony and its associated pops and cracks.

His eight tracks aren’t much good if his cassette player doesn’t work.

I loved vinyl. I lost two big collections in two divorces. I now have the resources for a nice audio setup, but I’ve been using Spotify instead, it seems every record in the world is on there. Plus, no need to turn the record over every twenty minutes, and my hearing is shot so I can’t detect the quality of vinyl.

It took me awhile to give up on my 8-tracks, and then I had to give up on my cassettes. I lost a lot music along the way. But I still have my vinyl.

Vinyl snobs kill me. The music reproduction on vinyl is not superior to tape or even modern CD technology.

Nothing like the BBRRRRRRPT of an eight-track changing tracks – especially in the middle of a song….

Nostalgia is pretty much the only reason for holding on to 8-tracks. As for vinyl, I doubt I could detect any difference if I were to compare it to a digitized version of the same song. Of course, I grew up listening to music on a transistor radio, sometimes through one of those cheesy monophonic earplugs, so it isn’t surprising that I don’t consider my ears to be classically trained.

I have some vinyl I’d like to digitize; I just have to get around to getting a record player that can handle the task. One of the many things on my little list of things to do.

Oddly, though, my last purchase of vinyl was very recent. At a yard sale, I found the Broadway cast recording, circa 1965, of Man of La Mancha, one of my all-time favorite musicals. I have the CD version of the album, but couldn’t resist purchasing the original.

8 track tapes….that started the musical merry-go-round…………..

Could be. Records are better.