Metal Reviews

You could always buy yourself a cheap one and see how it goes...if you really get into buying vinyl and find that it's not too much of a pain in the arse to find room to store it and keep everything in working order then you could upgrade to a fancier operation?

Myself I haven't got the time or space for vinyl. I barely listen to all the CDs I buy now, they just get ripped onto the computer. But I won't abandon the format, damnit!

I went from:

Record/Vinyl/LP to Tapes to CD's

Atari 2600 to Nintendo to Xbox 360/PS3

VHS to DVD's

Reasons why because techno evolution makes it much easier to listen,play or watch music,video games and movies respectfully. So why go back to the age of dinosaurs stick with CD's.

The only reason you would want to go way of vinyl's more likely for nostalgic reasons maybe.

Ripping vinyl sucks b/c you can't rip a song individually, just a side.
Vinyl takes up a ton of space.
Vinyl is expensive
I don't buy into the fact that vinyl sounds any better
CDs are easier to find and buy.


There. Enjoy the Skagos review.

The reason for this is because any pleasant colouring of sound is going to become almost addictive as a necessary element and the music feels cold or inaccurate when such sound is not there anymore. Therefore, people that grew up and got used to the sound of vinyl prefer it because it is more in line with what they perceive as accurate as a reference point, even though the truth is that Digital is as close to completely accurate as it gets. People that expect the tone of vinyl and don't get it might think there is something wrong with a dry version of an album. It is a common complaint that when CD's came out people complained endlessly about the lack of warmth and the coldness and harshness of CD's when the medium was not the problem because the media was conveying exactly what was on the mastering engineers console.

If The first record I ever bought was Rush's Presto and really got used to the tonality of that album over 500 listens, it would still not be accurate to say "most albums are far too bass heavy" because the point of reference is a higher order, leaner type of low frequency reproduction.

I pondered this myself until I realized if I had my way my place would become like Cusack's from High Fidelity with all the shelves and I realized that is what books and books alone are for.

Cheers, Tony

I'm going against the grain here. I have an old vinyl player and I love it. Not because there's any difference in sound quality (there isn't) or because I like to buy new albums in vinyl for extremely high prices, but because of the second hand market. I have gotten so many extremely awesome albums for dirt cheap prices on vinyl due to Montreal's many great second hand vinyl stores. I often find out of print or rare albums for $2-8 as people dump their 70s and 80s collections into all these stores. So my advice: Buy a cheap vinyl player and buy second hand exclusively.