I Love Vinyl Records

Although most of my music is digital (ripped from CDs or downloaded from iTunes), I'm building up a vinyl collection and getting into it as a hobby. It can be expensive, but fun. I'm not such an audiophile that I actually prefer vinyl most of the time (it can be a real pain in the ass to get right), but I enjoy it because the sound is different, and it's fun to be able to manipulate the sound in so many ways. I'm glad that vinyl is becoming more popular.

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SW-User

"More popular again!"

SW-User

@SW-User It's interesting to read about how vinyl died out in the 80s and how people never saw its resurgence coming. Maybe when music quality reached its nadir in the 2000s with poor-quality mp3s and streaming, it was inevitable that a medium with so much potential for great sound should come back.

SW-User

@SW-User imo i see it's current growth merely a fashion, a status, a cool factor phenomenon and unlikely to have any longevity.

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@SW-User Maybe for the hipsters who won't get into serious sound, but I do think the current growth is encouraging more audiophiles (hence the popularity of Tidal and DACs). But certainly for some it's just a trend.