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I'm nearing 50 and I recently bought a record player and a handful of records together with a multi-tier display stand for my home, after not using one since ab

I'm nearing 50 and I recently bought a record player and a handful of records together with a multi-tier display stand for my home, after not using one since about the advent of CD. I don't use it much, but when I do its a pure nostalgia moment; it takes me back to my teenage years, flipping over records in my room, the "warmer" sound, carefully removing and replacing records from their covers trying not to scratch them, slowing down the whole process of listening to music rather than just picking a music playlist on my phone and over-consuming. CD's are much less nostalgic for me, even though the quality is good, they feel not only charmless but obsolelete, much in the way that DVD/BluRay do in the age of streaming. Cassette tape is just a bridge too far; rapidly degrading sound quality, tape de-spooling and getting chewed up and having to yank it out of the player. It was handy in the age of Walkmans if you wanted to listen to music on the go. I guess the point I am making is that ones level of nostalgia for these older formats is probably highly dependent on your age, memories etc.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
I'm in my 30s and I was born in the right generation. CDs used to be cool and futuristic, and they're still a convenient way to handle music in a world where all software sucks and sending a file from one "personal" computer to another requires advanced networking knowledge Records and tapes don't hit the nostalgia button for me
- nineteen999 2y ago
  The things I don't like about CD ... the jewelled cases always coming apart at the hinges, the hinge pieces snapping off and you're left with two loose halves .. I mean cheap enough to keep a bunch of spares around I suppose, but it happens way too much. Also when they do get scratched, they skip in a really awful "digital sounding" way, unlike vinyl which can be either a mild hiccup or bump, to downright comically burping their way to the end of the track or side. But you're right they were very ergonomic compared to what came before them, there's no doubt like DVD that came a little later they were a complete game changer.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago

I'm in my 30s and I was born in the right generation. CDs used to be cool and futuristic, and they're still a convenient way to handle music in a world where all software sucks and sending a file from one "personal" computer to another requires advanced networking knowledge Records and tapes don't hit the nostalgia button for me

nineteen999 2y ago
The things I don't like about CD ... the jewelled cases always coming apart at the hinges, the hinge pieces snapping off and you're left with two loose halves .. I mean cheap enough to keep a bunch of spares around I suppose, but it happens way too much. Also when they do get scratched, they skip in a really awful "digital sounding" way, unlike vinyl which can be either a mild hiccup or bump, to downright comically burping their way to the end of the track or side. But you're right they were very ergonomic compared to what came before them, there's no doubt like DVD that came a little later they were a complete game changer.