Post by admin on Aug 21, 2008 18:35:24 GMT -5
So, just as CD's back in the early 80's took over cassettes, CD's are now starting to be slowly phased out.
And the replacing format? Records. Records are becoming popular again, and never officially died, because pressing plants were never closed or ceased production, and players continued to be manufactured.
As a matter of fact, I bought a new copy of Kanye Wests "Graduation" on a 33/rpm record..
So, in honor of vinyl coming back, I decided to restore my fathers old turntable, which was a very high end model for it's time (and still has audio to compete even today).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpNHiqek39k
It has had the belt replaced, new stylus, major cleaning job, and will be having the headshell (what holds the stylus and cartridge), and a new cartridge from Grado, and stylus to go with it, after the current replacement stylus wears down in the coming years.
PS: Why are records becoming popular again? I'll list them.
1. No copy protection.
2. Sound is analog, records are analog, but CD's are digital. In the case of the CD, it needs to "sample" sound and try to reproduce it. However, this causes a reproduction of the sound to be inaccurate.
3. Records have far better and bigger artwork.
4. Loudness war. CD's have gotten louder and louder as years go by. Music companies do this to make the CD's sound "new and fresh". However, this causes distortion, and not to mention, totally destroys the range of sound. Records can't have loudness effects applied, thus the sound remains TRUE.
As far as your car is concerned, CD's will remain for that. OR, read next paragraph for a fix.
Some new turntables come equipped with a USB port, and ripping software. This allows you to take your old records and convert them to an mp3 or any digital format you chose. Of course, this would only be good for iPods or other mobile devices, as their sound will be no better than a CD as the analog sound just became digital again.
PS (Clicks and pops). New records and clean players won't have many, if at all, clicking and popping. Just keep the equipment clean, and it's a beauty.
And the replacing format? Records. Records are becoming popular again, and never officially died, because pressing plants were never closed or ceased production, and players continued to be manufactured.
As a matter of fact, I bought a new copy of Kanye Wests "Graduation" on a 33/rpm record..
So, in honor of vinyl coming back, I decided to restore my fathers old turntable, which was a very high end model for it's time (and still has audio to compete even today).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpNHiqek39k
It has had the belt replaced, new stylus, major cleaning job, and will be having the headshell (what holds the stylus and cartridge), and a new cartridge from Grado, and stylus to go with it, after the current replacement stylus wears down in the coming years.
PS: Why are records becoming popular again? I'll list them.
1. No copy protection.
2. Sound is analog, records are analog, but CD's are digital. In the case of the CD, it needs to "sample" sound and try to reproduce it. However, this causes a reproduction of the sound to be inaccurate.
3. Records have far better and bigger artwork.
4. Loudness war. CD's have gotten louder and louder as years go by. Music companies do this to make the CD's sound "new and fresh". However, this causes distortion, and not to mention, totally destroys the range of sound. Records can't have loudness effects applied, thus the sound remains TRUE.
As far as your car is concerned, CD's will remain for that. OR, read next paragraph for a fix.
Some new turntables come equipped with a USB port, and ripping software. This allows you to take your old records and convert them to an mp3 or any digital format you chose. Of course, this would only be good for iPods or other mobile devices, as their sound will be no better than a CD as the analog sound just became digital again.
PS (Clicks and pops). New records and clean players won't have many, if at all, clicking and popping. Just keep the equipment clean, and it's a beauty.