Tom did it again with his #296 Podcast.
Liz and he were talking about isolation products when it obviously came to turntables, which can benefit from such. Liz fired off first a rather ignorant and in a derogatory manner a comment asking "Does anyone still play vinyl?" to which Tom replied (flippantly) " [chuckle] Yeah UNFORTUNATELY they do."
REALLY? REALLY TOM?
Unfortunately? What is so unfortunate for those who play vinyl records? What does it matter to you?
Ok, ok, you don't have any interest in vinyl, FINE! that is your prerogative. That said your comments on it are IMO coming out from your a$$. You also made note as if it was silly and maybe even neurotic that people invest in record cleaning machines to get the most out of their LP's. Again what is your problem Tom? Why do you care?
Fact is many listeners invest good to great sums of money and time on building a vinyl playback set up and also invest large sums in buying discs be they used or in even growing numbers new LP's, taking better care of them is a valuable thing to keep the pleasure of playing such for a lifetime.
On top of that vinyl on a good set up just plain sounds better. You do not have to agree nor care, but since you and Liz to name two do not bother with it, I say you have no clue. But whatever, vinyl listeners enjoy the sonic qualities of vinyl records and we all feel a good disc on a decent player sounds better than most if not all digital. IT'S MY/OUR FREE FEELING TO BELIEVE SO! Having you talk smack against vinyl out of both of your butts serves you both nothing good!
Vinyl is growing in popularity Tom & Liz. No, it will never return back to the hey day of the 70's and nobody is crying for such, but it ain't going away either. Millions of new copies are pressed and sold each year, tens of millions of used copies change hands each year. There are said to be on LP's alone over 100,000,000 titles in the history of LP pressings worldwide. No digital format offers nor will they ever that vast potential library.
Playing vinyl enforces the idea of SITTING ONE'S A$$ DOWN AND LISTENING! Maybe for only 20 min. side, maybe longer. Too many digital only listeners have music on but really are not LISTENING. Vinyl brings that to you and for even just 20 or so minutes you RELAX and enjoy.
But alas you have no care for it Tom & Liz, IMO it's both of yours loss but I don't care if you never spin an LP. But to talk down to vinyl record listeners is both arrogant an ignorant.
Maybe you should get a good vinyl record player and some discs you may like then shut up, sit down and listen!
