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Records make the NBC Nightly News, again

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There has been so much on turntables lately that it has helped increase the used values based on my observations. Not going to talk price so this stays in TT but there have been a few of these articles on different news outlets and the TT is showing up in more advertising all the time. I guess the nostalgic aspect is part of these sightings in advertisement but also the 'cool' factor.

Interesting assortment of colored vinyl they have and the regrind being used...not virgin vinyl anymore.

The first showing of the TT in the news article...was that a furry record?

This is the largest producer of vinyl in the US and they only produce 40,000 per day?
 
My 5 yr old happen to be with me the last time i picked up LP's , he later told everyone at home we picked up big CD's ...:)
 
"A record as in a vinyl disc with grooves on it"

The reporter seemed in awe of a technology around for ages. Well, the pub for the company is good.
 
they always play cracking vinyl on those news thing and it sounds so off in the distance like they are adding the crack sounds at the news studio and making the quality of the music less so it gives effects like in the movies. thats actually how I thought vinyl sounded like crap because of movies and shows making them sound like ass and then I heard a real record and a good table and was floored.
 
Elitemav said:
they always play cracking vinyl on those news thing and it sounds so off in the distance like they are adding the crack sounds at the news studio and making the quality of the music less so it gives effects like in the movies. thats actually how I thought vinyl sounded like crap because of movies and shows making them sound like ass and then I heard a real record and a good table and was floored.
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I was the same way, being young and extremely new to this whole thing. Now that I've got a good setup vinyl sounds great, and maintaining them sure goes a long way towards the good sound obviously.

I don't think even my worst record sounds as bad as the ones they sort of "demo" on these news reports on the recent record resurgence. And my worst record is a beat to hell copy of Led Zeppelin II, it's only listenable because it's a great album :thmbsp: I'm amazed even in the condition it's in it surpasses the MP3 version of the album I have on my iPod. It's all in the details.

They probably add the crackle in just because that's what people expect to hear it, like they've heard it in movies and TV even though clean, undamaged records played on properly set up turntables sound amazing.
 
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Blue Shadow said:
Interesting assortment of colored vinyl they have and the regrind being used...not virgin vinyl anymore.
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I noticed that too. I wonder what qualifies vinyl as being virgin vinyl? Obviously, it was heated and formed into the pellets prior to getting to the pressing plant. If the material reclaimed from rejected disks, and trimmings from the stamping machines is not contaminated by paper (from the label-punched out), then would it differ materially from the pellets? I just wonder. At least they are punching the label before grinding the rest of the disk up-I understand many factories did not bother back in the day. Some also sourced their vinyl from reclaimers that may have been sloppy in what they accepted for reprocessing.

Blue Shadow said:
This is the largest producer of vinyl in the US and they only produce 40,000 per day?
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If they went 365 days at 40k, that's 14.6 million units-which I understand as about triple what sales were last year, nationally. That one plant could easily handle all the sales for a year, even allowing for a 5 day schedule with downtime for maintenance.

Don't get me wrong-I am glad that vinyl production continues to increase. I just sense that capacity is not strained as some suggest, and that would leave more time to focus on quality, which has been spotty. I am already spending $18 bucks on a single new disk. I would gladly pay a couple bucks more, to assure top quality.

Thanks for the post jimreeves :thmbsp:
 
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