Two Turntables, No Microphone
“Vinyl is back!” I couldn’t have said it better than the artist himself, second-time poster MatthewBech; thanks to him, vinyl is back for a long-overdue encore after tapes, CDs and now MP3s stole the stage from the format oh-so long ago. I’m a bit of a young’un, so I missed the era of wax, but that won’t stop me from reminiscing the days when LPs reigned supreme and compact discs were nought but a twinkle in Phillips’ eye. Both MatthewBechs’ black and blue variants of this lovely turntable would make an astounding media player icon for those of you out there who wish more music came on a large plastic disc. Scratch on down to the forum to get two turntables for yourself. (Sorry, no microphone or copy of Odelay included.)
October 18th, 2008 at 2:26 am
This is so cool! I love vinyl.
October 18th, 2008 at 5:29 am
I’m an older guy who grew up in the vinyl era. (I turn 50 next month. Egad.) Records had a certain charm. There was the tactile quality of taking it out of the jacket, putting it on the turntable, and carefully setting down the needle. Part of that experience was flipping it to the other side. Each side of an album was literally an event; indeed, record tracks were recorded with that in mind. Of equal importance was the album artwork. Because of the larger size, I think artwork lent itself to a realm of creativity that’s been necessarily lost.
But I do not wax nostalgically (pun intended) for those good old days. I much prefer the digital format, particularly with the ability to play around with the music via such programs as Amadeus, Sound Studio, etc. I like the accessibility of my entire music collection in one device, anywhere I want to go. I will say that my music collection sometimes bores me; it’s like, I’ve heard all of this a thousand times. But sometimes I look at the huge list of every album and song I own, and I sometimes think, is that all I’ve got? Somehow, with vinyl records in a stack, I had a more concrete grasp of what was there.
Overall, though, I’d never go back to the good old days. I like the digital age.