How long since you've listened to vinyl?

Hi folks! It's been 5-6 years. I have a "like new" U-Turn turntable with upgrades to the platter and cart sitting in storage. I probably should sell it since I have no place to set it up at the villa.
 
for me a couple of times a month. A listening session usually lasts for around 3 hours or so. Some times longer as it depends on what I have picked to listen to for a particular session. At times Pink Floyd, Beach Boys, Moody Blues and way to many to list. My last LP purchase was in 1985/86. when I'm at a thrift store. I will go thru the LP's if they have any. However no purchases in many years
 
Last Christmas, my wife bought me the dbl album of Queen Greatest Hits on vinyl. I told her I don’t have a table. She replied for me to go find one.

Since then, I’ve restored a beautiful old Gerrard Zero 92, a new U-turn table, half dozen cartridges, 300 records. I’m having a ball spinning records. It’s a time machine.
 

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RVT1K said:
Last night I was texting with a friend and he mentioned the difference in sound between some of his vinyl and CD's.

It made me think that I hadn't listened to vinyl on my or anyone else's stereo in a loooonnnggg time. Once I jumped on the CD bandwagon way back when, I never looked back.

So I gave it some real thought and came up with that it had been 40 years since I used a turntable??!!?? Holy $&^* am I old...

I know there are still lots of people who listen to vinyl regularly but what about the rest? When was the last time you listened to vinyl?
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In the 80's my family had a good collection of Vinyl and Cassette, my Dad got super religious and decided that we would no longer have "the devils music" in our house, so he loaded us up and took us out to some land we own out in the Mojavi Desert. He brought along his shot gun and he and my uncle proceeded to play skeet with our music collection. After that day we were limited to Hymns and "church approved" music. In 2002 when I left home for college and got an actual job, the 1st thing I purchased was a nice Sony Disc Man, and a few CD's. The last time i had actually listed to a vinyl album was probably in the late 80's early 90's. FF to early 2000's and I decided i wanted to get into vinyl, I think it was 2003 that my now wife purchased me a Pionner PL-12 that i restored. I was hooked. I have roughly 10-12 tables now, and a few thousand LP's.

Listened to an album on Friday, have been streaming Spotify the past few weeks a lot so I decided to spin an album.
 
prolly 30 yrs, maybe. really. no one i know well owns gear.
i gave mine up at least 35 yrs ago. i was a dj. got tired of listening to the same stuff repeatedly.
jumped on edm and haven't looked backed
i still listen to everything.
 
Gigantic said:
I listened to vinyls and some legendary tube amps at @Blue Shadow's place yesterday.
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That is about as often as I listen to vinyl, when folks drop by to cruise to tunz and chat. I have these gigs here monthly and when friends call and drop by.

With Tom Clone dropping 1200 new to me CDs on my front porch, shipped from Seattle, a couple years ago it is almost all new music to me and ranges from I’ll never listen to it to something I grab regularly. Still learning what I have as I load 5 in a nice sounding changer and listen through the house getting things done or not.

I pull out albums on occasion when I want to hear them as I have a few tts hooked up to the main rig. At times just cuing up the songs I want to hear.

I can see transitioning to less involving music sources like streaming and CD changer. Interesting that less involving has a double meaning. Records are maybe 20 steps to play for those 20 minutes. The CD changer is a few hours of tunes and streaming if one lets the source pick the playlist can be all day.
 
Minutes ago. When I have slight boredom from listening to music (happens seldomly) I use another cartridge. Or another turntable. Or both. But listening to music pressed into vinyl for me is pure joy.

My momentarily used humble CEC with Audio Technica AT13Ea (NOS stylus) however fails to bore me.
 
About a week and a half ago, was down with the flu and experienced this as nice part of the treatment.
Reckon that I listen to 12" and 7" twice a month, used to be more during my previous job that had a larger work-from-home component.
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Misread your post question. I read: "have you", not since you :beerchug: I'll leave my post up for the novelty...

About 60 years...I was 5 or 6 when I purchased my first lp: "Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing". Drove everyone in the house crazy with it 'cause I would play it 5x a day. Believe it or not I found a sealed copy in a thrift store about 6ish years ago. Snagged it right away of course then opened & played it on my next birthday. Some fixes run deep.:rockon:

https://www.discogs.com/release/499...Orchestra-Lets-All-Sing-Like-The-Birdies-Sing
 
Had about 5 hours today. The first three hours, I had the Ortofon MC X30 on the arm. Wonderful cart, no ifs, and, or buts. Then, I switched over to the MC X10, with the bonded elliptical stylus. You would think it would have been quite a letdown, going from a nude Fine Line to the same basic rock as a 2M Red, but that's not the case. All of the MC X series carts have the same motor, and the same tonal balance, the only difference is the amount of detail. Steve Morse Band, Dixie Dregs, Dire Straits, Genesis, Mike Oldfield, it all sounded more like I had simply put the grills on the speakers, rather than changed cartridges. All in all, I consider this seriously impressive performance for the money.

I could have just put a CD in the transport, let the DAC do the heavy lifting, and heard most of the same music. It wouldn't have been nearly as much fun!
 
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