I heard a report, I think on NPR, in the past two weeks, how vinyl music sales have increased and are at a multi-decade high point. A gentleman they interviewed for the report likened listening to music on vinyl as an active listening experience vs. the passive listening in convenient, digital formats. I think that's a decent comparison to friction shifting shifting a bike, that it represents an active experience vs. more passive experience of indexed shifting.
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Ray Varella <rayvarella...@gmail.com> wrote: > Patrick et al, > One thing that vinyl used to add, and I can't say if it > does today, is the element of listening to an entire side or both sides of > an album. > Add some friends to the mix and you pass around the album cover, read the > liner notes and anything else the band or producers had to say about the > making of the recording. > It involved a level of social interaction that doesn't exist while wearing > earbuds. > It required an attention span that involved listening to more than one cut. > Music today is very convenient but most people don't listen to more than > one song by a given artist. > > I confess to still owning and listening to vinyl, on vintage tube gear no > less. The sound quality drwarfs anything available on a compressed format > but it really loses in the convenient column. > > Ray > Vallejo CA > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
