For The Love Of Vinyl | blog.JR.com

A nice article at the J and R blog about vinyl. It is true that the old lp's were pressed on some pretty crappy thin discs. RCA (really crappy albums!) had some really bad stuff called dynaflex or something. Classical lp's were always pretty beefy. Their listeners wouldn't put up with that crappy stuff.

The new 180 and 200 grain lp's are really heavy and do sound good. I have the ION usb turntable (not 800 lbs or 150,000 dollars!!!) and get a few lp's of new stuff now and then.

here's part of the post, click and read it all

For The Love Of Vinyl | blog.JR.com: "For The Love Of Vinyl


Lately, it seems that vinyl has seen some sort of revival. Many media outlets are proclaiming that vinyl is back. That is true to some degree. Vinyl is having a semi revival amongst some circles, but to the audiophile community, vinyl never left. It has been the default choice of the high end for many years and will continue to be. Browse through Audiogon, the definitive high end online audio community and you will see that it is alive and kicking. Within that crowd, dropping $80,000 on a turntable is not unheard of. I heard The Clearaudio Statement turntable at a hifi event not long ago, and apart from weighing almost 800lbs, it’s also $150,000."