Back in the late 70's I used to have a Sgt Pepper 8-track that replayed the ending of the reprise …
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There's also the Paul McCartney and Wings Band On The Run in Quad (Purple casing) and Venus and Mars in Quad. Those can go for some serious $$$. Same goes for the early 8 tracks from Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. Again, it's all about the casing of the 8 track...not the typical black casing and collectible both by Led Zep collectors and 8 track collectors.Comment
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Y'all don't know nothing about top tier music reproduction -
Shellac 78s are where it's at!"If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that dog will not bite you. This is the primary difference between a dog and a man."
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You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...Comment
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I stupidly threw out all my cassettes when I moved around 12 years ago, including a bunch of KISS ones. At the time they were just worth pennies on ebay and moving time is when I get rid of crap that's just taking up space. I regret this particular decision now. I still have a couple KISS 8-tracks though.
Sony would make a mint if they'd reissue the original Walkman with a Guardians of the Galaxy Tie in.Comment
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Are CD's too "sterile" of a listening experience for some people? I'm not quite old enough to have personally bought a lot of brand new vinyl records from stores back in the day so I'm not an expert on this but do people feel more "attached" to the buying and listening interactions with the records and cassettes?Comment
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Are CD's too "sterile" of a listening experience for some people? I'm not quite old enough to have personally bought a lot of brand new vinyl records from stores back in the day so I'm not an expert on this but do people feel more "attached" to the buying and listening interactions with the records and cassettes?
It's something you wont notice unless you've trained your ears --- which most people over 40 have done being brought up on records.
Also, many modern music producers tinker with the sound dynamics (see many Beatles remastered CD's).
This leaves the recordings sounding distorted and sloppy...Comment
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I hear things in vinyl that I can't in a CD.
Vinyl, to my ear, has an entirely different depth.
I have all my records from before the end in 1986...and have been buying again for prolly the past five years now that I can get a minty Purple Rain.
I have also developed a distaste for some first pressing LPs from the 1980's...I have Pyromania and Thriller and I am not pleased with them one single bit...they have no life to them, just flat sound. Another one that upset my ear was the 2003/2004 KISS Symphony LP set. The vinyl isn't mastered worth a damn, but the iTunes download sounds far superior.Comment
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This is surprising to me - early pressings of Thriller are notoriously good sounding and very punchy."If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that dog will not bite you. This is the primary difference between a dog and a man."
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Something I've not seen a lot of folks mention is this new age of players & vinyl and the skipping issue. I have a re-press Ozzy Diary of a Madman and on Crazy Train, that sucker will skip like there's no tomorrow unless I play it on my direct drive Audio Technica $300 player. Same LP has been played on three different players in the $70-$150 range (that are widely common in stores right now) and it skips. That's not the only new LP I have that does this. I sent three KISS LPs back to Amazon for the same reason...three of the exact same LP did the exact same thing unless I use a quality turntable. Weird.Comment
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I use a vintage Magnavox console system with the original turntable. I figure it is late sixties. still sounds great. cost me $300 to have the turntable repaired but well worth it, IMHOComment
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I would tell anyone that may be interested in Vinyl, or just music in any form, this is the forum to check out:
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/
I've been a member for the last 5 + years and I think jimbutsu is also a member there. I've learned a lot and the one thing I would tell anyone is that you need to learn how to read the runout groove of any record you buy when it comes to vintage/early pressings/first pressings. Chad said that his copy of Thriller was lifeless...it may be that he got a later pressing within the early pressings of the album. It sold something like 20 + million copies worldwide. Each time they make a new pressing a new master must be made for them to press with. It's also like a photocopy...further away from the original the less the sound quality. As I mentioned before...it's the reason why a lot of early CD's that were pressed here in the US sound awful is because they were using 2nd/3rd generation copies of original master tapes.
One thing I will not buy these days are re-issues/re-masters. Especially at some of the ridiculous prices they are asking for what to my ears is inferior product. I'd rather go out and hunt down an original.Comment
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