Looking to upgrade my turntable

[lovinthehd]

I honestly didn't think I was going to start listening to vinyl all that much again. When I put some records on the other day, they sounded really good. I have so many old, used records that it would be a shame not to listen to them. I have so many.

Now I have a lot of cassette as well, but being they are all around 30 years old, they are either breaking or squealing so bad they are unlistenable. Now the JVC TD-W318 Double cassette deck works better than the cassettes I own. I just cleaned and demagnetized the heads. Even in their best day, even the Chrome Prerecorded tapes didn't hold a candle to Vinyl because their dynamics and frequency response was so bad.

Vinyl sounds just as good if not better than many CDs depending on their masters. Just no reason not to listen. The pops and crackles bring me back to my younger days sitting in a garage, made into a hang out with a Scott receiver and high end turntable, listening to Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and "Wish You Were Here".

Vinyl can sound fine but better than many CDs hasn't been my experience, but good recordings are good recordings (good music means a lot more than the media itself, too). The cassettes are long gone, too fussy to deal with. I have something like 800 LPs and a hundred 45s but still don't use 'em much these days except for nostalgia sessions or something that's hard to find a digital copy of....can't think of any where I think "oh the vinyl sounds so much better" though. Got some examples of what vinyl you think sounds better than the digital versions?

 

[Mike Up]

Vinyl can sound fine but better than many CDs hasn't been my experience, but good recordings are good recordings (good music means a lot more than the media itself, too). The cassettes are long gone, too fussy to deal with. I have something like 800 LPs and a hundred 45s but still don't use 'em much these days except for nostalgia sessions or something that's hard to find a digital copy of....can't think of any where I think "oh the vinyl sounds so much better" though. Got some examples of what vinyl you think sounds better than the digital versions?

I did prefer Billy Squier's Enough is Enough vinyl master to the Digital 16 bit/44.1Khz FLAC master.

 

[lovinthehd]

I did prefer Billy Squier's Enough is Enough vinyl master to the Digital FLAC master.

Well, that's one.....otoh when I first got cd it was a fairly obvious how better it was over vinyl in just the limitations of the vinyl media over a wide swath of music. Sure, there are lots of masters for vinyl that are very well done, but not all....and some digital was just the vinyl master. OTOH bulk of recording has been done digitally for quite a while now, making vinyl more a lifestyle thing IMHO.