* Posts by jo.sbd

2 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Jan 2017

Vinyl and streaming sales offset CD decline in UK music sales

jo.sbd

Re: It's understandable

Mr Lee, you make what passes for music these days sound more interesting than it is!! I call it anti-music: the ultimate throw away thing: rubbish song, awful recording which is then compressed still further to MP3... no wonder kids buy a track from the Apple Store for 50p. listen to it via their phones and cheap headphones, or on their desktop pc with it's plastic speakers... then delete.

jo.sbd

Re: It's understandable

Why we ever allowed ourselves to be taken in by the promise of perfect clarity, everlasting disks... madness. And a triumph of marketing.

Do get your albums back from the depths of your garage! I promise it will be well worth it. There is a depth, warmth and involvement with vinyl which is missing from the CD, which to me sounds sharp, clinical and sterile: rather brittle.

A number of companies have returned to the manufacture of turntables for the first time in years. and these range from the budget priced, to the hugely expensive.

I hope the garage yields up a working turntable, and that you enjoy listening once again to the 400 albums!