Any Vinyl freaks here?

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Hi guys,

A recent hobby for me (Just over a year now), is collecting vinyl records.

I'm very slow at accumulating new records, but I get a new one every couple of months.

The quality is outstanding, and I was wondering is there any guys here, that also are into collecting vinyl.

Recently bought Lorde's Pure Heroine, and the quality, and deepness of the bass is outstanding.

I used to be back in the days when it was more common and I had a turntable. I used to get promotional disks from punk and new wave labels because I was a DJ at KPGY-FM in Iowa. Right now all I have is one vinyl, Jimmie Mack's 'On The Corner.'

I have lots of Kinks, Beatles, Who, Rolling Stones and other British rock bands and performers on vinyl. I think the sound quality on vinyl is so much better because the turn table needle gets right into the grooves.

I've got about 3000 pieces altogether, LPs, EPs and 45s, most dating between the late 50s and early 90s. Like RedRobin, I was a radio disc jockey for ages and spent an inordinate amount of my tiny salaries on collecting older and more obscure material, and brought home lots of contemporary stuff from work as promotional giveaways.

After the early 90s, the record companies stopped sending promotional music on anything but Cds, and other than the secondhand shops, retailers stopped selling vinyl and switched to Cds, so I have a lot of those, too.

Now I have tons of purely digital stuff as well. I love music any way I can get it, but I really, really miss rubbing the edge of a new album cover across the grain of my jeans to slit the shrink wrap - the smell of a newly opened vinyl LP cover. Good times.

a minority opinion here- have a few thou of the flat black friends, but just the same I've spent an inordinate amount of $$$$ and time in digitizing them and denoising them, as I am not one of the lucky ones with the built-in noise-ignoring module in my brain, so the only way I can enjoy listening to them is after noise-reduction takes place.

I like collecting old and new vinyl, but especially interesting stuff I can find at thrift stores.

I just got some old vinyl of john klein performing on the carillon Americana, as well as an album of erroll garner playing xmas tunes. am glad I have the use of CEDAR noise reduction so as to make these items more listenable, as they are old and probably noisy.