Observations from a kid re vinyl

So last trip to the hifi shop, I was with my eldest (15 at the time). The owner came took us to their ‘other’ listening room. Looked to have almost $1/2M worth of gear in there - massive Sonus Faber boxes, monoblock amps, vinyl based.

After the session my eldest told me he liked vinyl, I asked him to quantify why, did it sound different to him in some way?

He said ‘no, it’s because I can actually touch & holds it and see it going round, look at the artwork and I feel like it connects me to the music more’.

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Yes, those are the only things about vinyl that I miss.

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And yet, when I was 15, none of those remarks would have made sense… They were all obvious and with nothing to compare…

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Ditto, they were all just newish discoveries and pleasures

I remember having played ITCOTCK (as opposed to the ubiquitous and overrated DSOTM) for the first time on my simple stereo holding the fold up cover and watching and watching it and reading, as if it was the LP itself, as it it had a life…

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Same sort of feelings here, coming across it shortly after release, soon after completing my first hifi system.

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I think it’s why I never really took to CDs as much as vinyl as I hated the jewel cases which often broke and the tiny booklets weren’t a patch on vinyl inserts with lyrics etc.

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ITCOTCK ?

Not sure to what you are meaning

best wishes

Ian

In The Court Of The Crimson King

Took me ages to get used to deciphering a lot of album titles when I first came across the abbreviations on Hoffman. Still does on a lot of em!

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Sorry, yes. I never use abbreviations, it was just a wink at Dark Side Of The Moon…

These days I think of Robert Fripp with Robert and Toyah’s Sunday Lunch

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Thank you

I observe that someone from my generation observes the observations of a kid of 15. What I mean is that we project our feelings and understanding on others.

My daughter was into my vinly at young age, was already into a all genres of music
her favourite was War of the worlds
Loved looking at the book aswell,
Now she has her own system and lot of vinyl,
We even go second hand vinyl shopping together every now again and she loves my naim kit and has already told her brother that it’s hers, :rofl:

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