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Maybe I am following the hive mind unknowingly, but my personal affection with vinyl is very similar to how I enjoy cooking even if I can get better meals in re

Maybe I am following the hive mind unknowingly, but my personal affection with vinyl is very similar to how I enjoy cooking even if I can get better meals in restaurants or creating furniture even though I can buy stuff pre-made that is higher quality: it's just a nice feeling. The rotating disk in the room adds atmosphere, and there is a bit of commitment -- I can't easily skip that one song I dislike, so I listen to the album the way the artist made it. Sometimes that is annoying, but quite often, I have ended up enjoying the harder-to-digest songs even more than the others.

garciasn 4y ago
To me, vinyl is for intentional listening. I am making a conscious choice, I am actively listening to it, and I’m interacting with the media and displaying large form artwork while it plays. I also have access to Amazon’s music service in every room on whatever devices we have. I am working my way through RS’ to 500 albums with it. I am currently building a Grateful Dead Time Machine (https://www.spertilo.net/ https://www.spertilo.net/) to have that added to the music playing repertoire. I can listen to all of those as background music or even actively. But they’re different than vinyl for me and I don’t care about what others do or how they do it, but I ENJOY this in a way I never enjoyed music before while having the disposable income to do it. To each their own and all of that but for folks to deride those who listen to vinyl with a dismissive wave of their hand because they disagree with it and generalize their feelings for those who enjoy it is a bit much.
- goosedragons 4y ago
  This is something you can get from CD too minus the large form artwork. Although you could probably put CDs in a big sleeve too.
- derwiki 4y ago
  Love that you’re building a GD Time Machine!
  - garciasn 4y ago
    I recently built a PiPDP11 kit and had all the stuff to solder so I figured why not?! For me, the soldering was done in 10-15 mins on the GDTM and the new challenge is making the faceplate for the enclosure. Something nerdy to learn and do. :-)

garciasn 4y ago

To me, vinyl is for intentional listening. I am making a conscious choice, I am actively listening to it, and I’m interacting with the media and displaying large form artwork while it plays. I also have access to Amazon’s music service in every room on whatever devices we have. I am working my way through RS’ to 500 albums with it. I am currently building a Grateful Dead Time Machine (https://www.spertilo.net/ https://www.spertilo.net/) to have that added to the music playing repertoire. I can listen to all of those as background music or even actively. But they’re different than vinyl for me and I don’t care about what others do or how they do it, but I ENJOY this in a way I never enjoyed music before while having the disposable income to do it. To each their own and all of that but for folks to deride those who listen to vinyl with a dismissive wave of their hand because they disagree with it and generalize their feelings for those who enjoy it is a bit much.

goosedragons 4y ago
This is something you can get from CD too minus the large form artwork. Although you could probably put CDs in a big sleeve too.
derwiki 4y ago
Love that you’re building a GD Time Machine!
- garciasn 4y ago
  I recently built a PiPDP11 kit and had all the stuff to solder so I figured why not?! For me, the soldering was done in 10-15 mins on the GDTM and the new challenge is making the faceplate for the enclosure. Something nerdy to learn and do. :-)