vinyl
The stable dynamics of sales of new turntable players, the interest of producers, the unrestrained agiotage of music lovers who buy records, makes you think. Usually, the spontaneous trends of fashion do not drag on for decades, which can not be said about what is today called a new vinyl boom. This post is a reflection on how a long-lasting vinyl trend has appeared, to whom and why it is needed, and also when it ends.
Immediately, I note that my little inner “esthete / music lover / audiophile” has always been indifferent to vinyl, but not because of his “uniquely miraculous”, “live”, “spiritualized” sound, but in connection with subjective attachment to the bewitching “magic” “Electromechanical reproduction process. I perceive my weakness with due self-irony and in no case impose on anyone.
Immediately, I note that my little inner “esthete / music lover / audiophile” has always been indifferent to vinyl, but not because of his “uniquely miraculous”, “live”, “spiritualized” sound, but in connection with subjective attachment to the bewitching “magic” “Electromechanical reproduction process. I perceive my weakness with due self-irony and in no case impose on anyone.
In my early youth, when the vinyl did not survive a second birth, I liked to think that this rare (almost unique) fascination separates me from the gray mass. But it was not long before I stopped thinking about personal uniqueness so much, and every second bearded person in rectangular glasses had a turntable, and an impressive collection of “black gold music lovers.”
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