Considering LPs

[Desplat13 1]

After going to the library and finding the collection of mostly classical LPs, and finding that they cost $0.50 per, or, if you are buying 10 or more, $0.25 per, I suddenly became very interested in the possibilities here.

Heading directly to Best Buy, and from there to Circuit City, I found that I could get a record player for, at cheapest, $100, and one that had a USB connection to transfer the LPs to a digital file for $140. Considering the amount of money I could be saving by getting albums for $0.25, it seems that those start-up costs will easily be overcome in savings, and, if I got the USB one, I could still put the music on my computer or ipod (if I ever get one), so there seems to be no downsides.

Also, I came across this interesting website:

http://www.audioholics.com/education/audio...s-vs-cds-part-4

The findings seem to favor LPs in audio quality over CDs, though I know that this is a debate with valid arguments from both sides.

Plus, of course, supersized album artwork is certainly on the side of the LPs.

So, what are your thoughts on starting a vinyl collection? What are your thoughts on the audio quality difference?

[King Mark 2,924]

what a waste of space

You can always start a VHS movie collection too,I see them in discount bins for 1$

[Henry B 49]

Also, I came across this interesting website:

http://www.audioholics.com/education/audio...s-vs-cds-part-4

The findings seem to favor LPs in audio quality over CDs, though I know that this is a debate with valid arguments from both sides.

Ummmm - well, if you transfer an LP to a digital file it will lose its analogue quality.

[Nick Parker 3,017]

The only type of music that I like better in a phonograph is jazz music (Cab Calloway in particular).

[Desplat13 1]

Also, I came across this interesting website:

http://www.audioholics.com/education/audio...s-vs-cds-part-4

The findings seem to favor LPs in audio quality over CDs, though I know that this is a debate with valid arguments from both sides.

Ummmm - well, if you transfer an LP to a digital file it will lose its analogue quality.

Right. That would only be for portability and such. This is how I could have all the benefits of a digital recording, while still having the option of higher (?) sound quality when I am near my record player.

Of course, an unknown variable is how good the digital file taken from the LP will sound. I don't think I will find out until I try, though.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,765]

I love my LPs. I would never part with them.

[AC1 3,565]

CD sales are declining. LP sales are increasing.

The VHS analogy of KM doesn't make sense because its quality is clearly and measurably inferior to DVD. VHS is more like Compact Cassette (Type Normal).

Alex

[Williamsfan301 11]

Use a program called Sound Studio when you transfer the LP's. It will clean up all the fuzzy sounds from the needle on the record, but keep the analogue quality.

LP's still are the best way to hear a recorded orchestra. CD's just don't replicate the "in the orchestra hall" sound that LP's do.

[BurgaFlippinMan 7]

CD sales are declining. LP sales are increasing.

But surely LP sales are still way less than CD sales?

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

Staggeringly less.

[ConnieR. 0]

I still buy LP's when I can get them cheap at library sales and garage sales. I didn't know there was a way to put them into the computer, though. I think my player is too old to have a USB port! However, I like listening to them while I'm doing crafts, etc. I like a lot of the older recordings for classical music.

Even though cassettes aren't the greatest, I also have a lot of those. As long as they're cheap enough, music is so addictive that I can overlook the quality! I can't usually afford to buy very many CD's, so I have to add to my collection any way I can!

[Trent B 317]

I'll stick to CD's.

[artyjeffrey 20]

I only resort to LPs when I can't find it on cd. That's what I did for Jane Eyre and, before the Intrada release, Alien.