#1 thing to damage records in use are shit Stylus. Also I personally don’t trust anything without a full platter, the potential for wobble just invites a stylus to interact poorly with your media surface.

Edit: apparently I’ve never once typed a hashtag symbol in Reddit mobile? Didn’t realize it was for doing the text LOUDS.

Good to know! Thanks for that

IIRC it was the issue of later, cheaper ones like Crosley. While cannot be on par with desktop or bigger players, Sound Burger with its original stylus was pretty decent for its size.

I wanna see DankPods review this lol

Sound burger…sounds like someone trying not to say queef but alluding to it.

It was my understanding that back in the day they could damage your records. I wonder if any of those previous issues have been addressed.

These have existed for awhile now, in both tape and vinyl!

Now give me my Sound Crocodile!

It’s also a way to show others your music tastes. People don’t really look through digital libraries (though I do remember scrolling through friends iPods) but records are a great way to share interests in taste

I bought cassette tapes as a kid and then CDs in the 90s / early 2000s... Was born too late to really have experience with records aside from seeing them on my mom's stereo setup and looking at the art on the front.

I think the last CD i bought was at least 10 years ago, don't even have a CD player any more.... Bought a record player and a pair of bookshelf speakers and I'm up to about 10 records with a couple more on the way. Streaming is great on the go and in the car, but at home it's nice to throw on a record i own, you get the album art way bigger than cassette tapes or CDs, they sound unique, and it's just a cool experience i missed out on but am glad they're making a comeback.

I think many young people buy records less for the sound quality and more for the physical persistence and meaning an object can provide when so many other experiences are digital and ephemeral.

Upgrades baby, upgrades!

Early December

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Still got a Late 2008 Mac Mini with Firewire that I use for audio. No OSX updates, no worries. Thanks to the devs at Renoise.com for not giving up on the old devices. It's a shame I only need one of them, because I have 3 :/

I just saw a kodak display in Target the other day and was like WTF - is this a time warp?

Think carefully when buying Apple. They decide when you need a new computer, not you.

Physical and digital are not mutually exclusive. Streaming definitely has its risks but CDs and DVDs are digital and physical and can work as long as you have a device that can play them (just like a record) they also have higher quality (from all quantitative measures) and are more robust physically

I have to admit my ignorance here: what is tube rolling?

I saw a Dr last year who only communicated by phone and fax. He would get quite a few faxes every time I was in his office.

That is simply awesome lol from an old guy this gold.lol

Haha I have that as a vst plugin

You've got a faulty inference there. Digital media being unable to perfectly replicate analog media, which whithin a limited bandwidth it actually can do perfectly, does not imply that it is worse than analog media because analog media has its own set of limitations and distortions that digital media doesn't suffer from.

If your goal is to recreate the actual sound you would hear if you were in the room you are going to be better off with a good digital file. If however your goal is to replicate the sound as it would be distorted by a record and record player then yes, using a record would be the better option.

I don’t disagree with you; I was merely pointing out that there is still an advantage to having physical media. If you have downloaded your music or whatnot, you own it, and so as long as you have power (unless books - you don’t need power for books) you will always have access to it. But, many people listen to music, watch movies, read books based on subscriptions/rentals. In which case, if, as I said, the services go kaput, you’re SOL on the media you enjoyed previously.

Cell phone that plays mp3s? Just pointing out that the advantage of using a solar panels to power a record player is a little odd. As is the tech giants thing. None of that is really a thing. I have copies of my digital music locally and literally have a tiny device on me at all times that can easily be powered with a very small solar panel to play mp3s for days.