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by ranger47 1248 days ago
It is a gimmick, and it seems like you bought it, hook, line and sinker...but it wasn't always a gimmick. At some point, vinyl was the standard. It has lost that position since, but to not admit that these record producers are capitalizing on nostalgia (both real and fabricated) is folly. You can easily have some 'me and my music' time with superior digital mediums without the need to get up every ~16 minutes and deal with a mechanical limitation that can break immersion. It's fine to like a gimmick, but don't dismiss a reasoned explanation of why vinyl is not superior just because you got sold on something the rest of us left behind.
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jagged-chisel 1248 days ago
> ... without the need to get up every ~16 minutes and deal with a mechanical limitation that can break immersion.

I'm pretty sure bayindirh wants to do exactly that. Whether it breaks their immersion, or even what immersion means to them, is completely subjective. For them, it's intentionally tactile.

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bayindirh 1248 days ago
Yes, yes & yes. :)
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freejazz 1246 days ago
Have ever even held a vinyl record? My nice vinyls, think like the Fragile by NIN, are orders of magnitude beyond their CD counterparts.
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bayindirh 1248 days ago
> It is a gimmick, and it seems like you bought it, hook, line and sinker...

Well, I started listening music with open reel tapes, cassette players, vinyl and CD at the same time. So, vinyl is not something I discovered recently.

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ranger47 1248 days ago
Same here. In fact, I still repair record players, cassette decks and 8-track units as a hobby. That said, I'm not about to sit here and say the modern vinyl thing is anything but a gimmick. As I said further in my reply, it's fine to like the gimmick, but let's not sit here and pretend something is somehow being kept alive or pure by particiating in it. Vinyl had its time, and that time has passed. There are better ways to listen, now.
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whateveracct 1246 days ago
Vinyl has a feature digital music does not: Lack of instantaneous random access.

This lack fundamentally makes vinyl an existentially (as in Sartre) different listening experience.

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