A lot of older people still cling to their old LPs saying it sounds better and such. Many ardent music fans are the same, hell some people believe LPs should be the only format avaiable. Many bands in certain genres still release their new albums on LP format today. I was wondering if any of you guys on the forums still had LPs, if you like them, why and such.

I was always interested in LPs but I only started listening to some during the summer. I found my mom's old box and I listened to some good old Neil Young, Cat Stevens, America and such. I was also interested in getting myself some metal LPs but my turn table was only a mono so it sounded pretty crappy. Anyways, I've recently got a stereo turn table and I must say it's great. Certain albums sound very different in CD and LP format. A good example (to me anyways) is Deathspell Omega's Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice.

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My dad used to have like 400 LP's but he trashed them all when we moved. I asked him about it years later and he said, "yeah i kind of regret that."

Those people who say that LPs sound better are either deaf (which is not unexpected due to their age) or are just nostalgic because LPs are just inferior and yield a lower sound quality even with the bestest and most expensive equipment

But they have an advantage: they can be made out of chocolate. Can you do that with CDs or mp3? Haha I didn't think so!!!

Those people who say that LPs sound better are either deaf (which is not unexpected due to their age) or are just nostalgic because LPs are just inferior and yield a lower sound quality even with the bestest and most expensive equipment

But they have an advantage: they can be made out of chocolate. Can you do that with CDs or mp3? Haha I didn't think so!!!

I wouldn't say necessarily inferior though, it just sounds different. For certain songs it's way better on CD but others actually sound better on LP (imo).

Anyways here are my LPs
Artist - Album
Venom - Black Metal
ISIS - Red Sea (the pink version)
ISIS - In The Abcense of Truth
Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice
Neil Young - Harvest
Cat Stevens - Greatest Hits
Cat Stevens - Numbers
(and 4 other Cat Stevens LPs... my mom was a big fan)
Simon & Garfunkle - Wednesday Morning, 3 AM
America - Self-titled

I'm also going to order some Swallow The Sun, Anathema, My Dying Bride and Wolves In The Throne Room. Maybe some other Deathspell Omega and Pearl Jam LPs if I can find them for cheap.

My band is releasing a 7" in february.

Cheetos, you're wrong. Vinyls have a vintage sound, which adds a whole level of subtleness that is hard to describe. It is a pretty cool sound but it works better or worse depending on the music style.

I know I like the vintage factor but the sound quality is lower, this is an undeniable fact

oh man we better not have an opinion on the quality of vinyl it is an UNDENIABLE FACT

My mom's partner has a load of old 70s and 80s rock vinyls, they're great to put on when the house is empty and I need loud music. ^_^

i havent researched but it makes sense that inri is prob right.
vinyls have A different FEEL perhaps, but THE actual sound quality (nonobjective hello) IS probably lower.

I like them because it lets me hear how the music was heard when it was new, and how the artists originally recorded it to sound like. I don't care if the quality is lower or anything, I don't need to hear the slightest sound of joefuckface's wedding ring on the e string of his guitar.

Not so much into modern vinyl, it's overpriced and people don't do the cool cover art they used to have.

well technically Vinyls are inferior (as if it matters interms of how the music sounds), though that arguement is kinda moot due to the way modern music is mixed. They blurr instruments and things together to create a louder sound on most albums (so all the subtle intricacies in the songs are lost), in many reissues, you'll find that the vinyl actually has much clearer sound than the CD (and most definately the Mp3, which has a distinct flat sound even to the CD recordings)
This is especially noticable with Heavy Metal (also The beatles it is very noticable) where rereleases tend to get remastered, I'm finding the remastered versions are more of a continous sound where even the quieter parts are put up to 11 and lose the emotional effect. Though admitedly this is due to modern mixing practices and not due to the potential of the format. I mean modern vinyl are prettymuch the same as CD interms of sound, because of the mixing practices.

Kaworu hit it on the head; most shit these days is overmixed on CD but vinyl tends to preserve the sound better but yeah just givin kaworu rep.

One time I ordered a Chemical Brothers CD and a vinyl came instead

I wonder if stuff like that actually sounds better or not

Or Analord, I'd like to hear that as vinyl someday

And since vinyl /is/ the waveform of the sound on a record, doesn't that mean that the sound quality could be ∞ hz as opposed to 44100?? Not to mention the bit depth would probably be infinite, as in the volume can increase or decrease by any infintessimal amount

Vinyl does not preserve the sound better. It has a inferior dynamic range, any dust on vinyl discs creates unwanted noises, the mastering proccess is much more complicated, etc. They're inferior. It's just that today sound engineers like to compress everything to make CDs as loud as they can and this is a marketing strategy, not a characteristic of CDs

Vinyl does not preserve the sound better. It has a inferior dynamic range, any dust on vinyl discs creates unwanted noises, the mastering proccess is much more complicated, etc. They're inferior. It's just that today sound engineers like to compress everything to make CDs as loud as they can and this is a marketing strategy, not a characteristic of CDs

Well given that CD's prompted this shift from quality engineering to loud engineering, CD's are in fact, to blame... indirectly of course.

Kaworu hit it on the head; most shit these days is overmixed on CD but vinyl tends to preserve the sound better but yeah just givin kaworu rep.

Well, yes. Loudness is a contagious disease, nowdays.

Interesting topic, i have heard similiar talks before. Like they said that Led Zeppelin's music sounds better on vinyl than on remaster, ie. Kashmir is said to have quite an atmosphere on vinyl. Since i have no vinyls myself i can't really say whether this is true.

Oh and doesn't CD have an stereo- advantage over vinyl (mono)? You can try to do tricks with vinyl making it sound like stereo but nothing beats two channels, amiright?

I read an article on the kind of stuff Kaworu was talking about, they make EVERYTHING louder and you lose lots of details you had in the original.  Vinyls don't have that problem.  As to which is better, it depends on the album and how good the record still is (an old busted up LP won't play so well!)

The only LPs I own are a really nice version of the Hair soundtrack and the Dragostea Din Tei single I bought just because "hahaha why is this for sale even".  Aquarius is definitely one of those that sounds a lot better on vinyl, the sound is just a lot warmer and sounded so, so great.

My dad has a really nice record player and stereo in our basement that sounds really good.  I've heard him listening to records growing up, and there is just a certain warm quality that comes with listening to records that sounds really good.  As much as I like it though, I don't  really have the time to sit down to a record much, and it seems like a lot of effort to go through when I could just play it on my computer or something like that.  I don't own any records, but it would be pretty neat to listen to some. 

The other problem that I feel though, is that CDs are already expensive enough (and I have really died down on actually purchasing music anymore, it's too expensive), and records cost a lot more than those.

My dad has a really nice record player and stereo in our basement that sounds really good.  I've heard him listening to records growing up, and there is just a certain warm quality that comes with listening to records that sounds really good.  As much as I like it though, I don't  really have the time to sit down to a record much, and it seems like a lot of effort to go through when I could just play it on my computer or something like that.  I don't own any records, but it would be pretty neat to listen to some. 

The other problem that I feel though, is that CDs are already expensive enough (and I have really died down on actually purchasing music anymore, it's too expensive), and records cost a lot more than those.

This is a lot like me, my dad has a nice stereo in the basement and it just sounds great.  As far as the price, it depends on what kind of records you want--you can find TONS of records really really cheap at flea markets and places like that.  My copy of the Hair soundtrack is a really nice release and near-new, and it was only 50 cents.