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How Marantz became the gold standard of luxury audio

From humble beginnings at a kitchen table

This is interesting if you can get past the typical pretentious millennial writing. For some reason, they think everything is “curated,” and like the little corporate slave drones they are, always use “brand” instead of something like “company” or even “identity” (probably because they’ve destroyed that word too). Also, I’ve always been a Bang & Olufsen guy, maybe it is time to explore Marantz.

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Blondie, The Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift, And More Among Record Store Day 2022 Exclusives

Record Store Day 2022 has unveiled a slew of new releases, including vinyl from Blondie, The Rolling Stones, The Cranberries, and more.

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Tower Records Is Back...With An Online Store

Welcome Back Tower Records! What was your first album??

Of only they were actually back! The greatest record store in history. Everyone loves Tower Sunset, I get it, lots of flashy events and famous people shopped there, but my store was Tower Westwood.

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Bang & Olufsen revives iconic Beogram 4000c turntable

Bang & Olufsen is resurrecting its iconic Beogram 4000c turntable – Beogram 4000c Recreated Limited Edition  – this October.

I have my Bang & Olufsen from 1984. It still works and works well.

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How the Coronavirus Is Affecting America’s Vinyl Record Industry | Pitchfork

Pressing plant shutdowns and a drop in demand are putting the format’s long-running comeback in jeopardy.

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“Devastating” Manufacturing Plant Fire Threatens Worldwide Vinyl Record Supply | Pitchfork

Third Man Records’ Ben Blackwell says the destruction of Apollo Masters’ California facility “will present a problem for the vinyl industry worldwide”

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Vinyl Record Sales Surpassed CDs for the First Time in Decades

For the first time since 1986, consumers prefer vinyl records over CDs for their physical music collections.

This is good news: CDs were always a terrible medium.

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The Rolling Stones Announce Let It Bleed 50th Anniversary Reissue | Pitchfork

The remastered album in stereo and mono plus a hardcover book, a 7" single, and more

I’m definitely going to want to buy this. It’s my favorite Stones’ album.

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Quentin Tarantino announces Once Upon a Time in Hollywood soundtrack. And it’s so sweet.

Featuring Deep Purple, Paul Revere, Simon and Garfunkel, and several '60s commercial jingles.Quentin Tarantino announces Once Upon a Time in Hollywood soundtrack Michael Roffman

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Do Remastered Records Actually Sound Better? • Gear Patrol

What is remastering? Do remastered records actually sound better? We asked a master engineer and music journalist to get to the bottom of it.

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LA's Best Record Stores

The revival of vinyl has continued more and more throughout the past decade and LA's local records stores, both new and old alike have gained a reputation for upholding the highest standard of music retail. In anticipation of Record Store Day, we're shari

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Look out: Phonographs are 'anachronistic,' per Georgia legislation

Vinyl collectors spin with disbelief

Thus proving that even 31 year old politicians can be insanely out of touch.

“The bill would have no impact on the sales of phonographs or on the legality of people possessing and using them.”

Good to know.

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16.8 million vinyl albums sold in the US during 2018

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Photographer Spends 10 Years Tracking Down The Original Locations Of Vinyl Covers

Alex Bartsch is a photographer who is a true reggae fan. He was first introduced to Bob Marley when he was a child, and he got so inspired that he spent 10 years of his life traveling around London searching for original locations of the most famous regga

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Magnificent Obsession: Author Marcus Barnes Explains The Enduring Global Appeal Of Vinyl Records

As the UK celebrates it’s first ever National Album Day author Marcus Barnes explains the enduring cultural phenomenon of vinyl records and releases a guide to the best vinyl emporiums on the planet.

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Record Store Day Black Friday 2018 Releases Announced

“Stranger Things,” Weezer’s “Africa,” Smashing Pumpkins, and more get exclusive vinyl releases

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Vinyl Is Bigger Than We Thought. Much Bigger.

There's lots of talk of a resurgence of vinyl records, but industry sales numbers drastically understate the size of the market because they don't count used vinyl sales. New data tells us that the true vinyl market size is probably twice as large as indu

I've been saying his for years: you can accurately assess vinyl sales unless you include used vinyl (which is, by far, the majority of available vinyl).

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This Is the Ideal Vinyl Accessory for Large Record Collections • Gear Patrol

Stndrd is a vinyl accessory company that makes the bespoke organizational dividers. If you have a large vinyl collection, these might be exactly what you need.

How did no one think of this before? I want them!

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The 10 Best British Invasion Albums To Own On Vinyl!

Once the Beatles made landfall, they brought with them a dozen British bands that remade American rock music.

This is actually a great list.

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First ever vinyl release being reissued for its 70th anniversary

.In 1948, a performance of Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in e minor by the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York became the first album pressed to vinyl.

Not the first vinyl record, but the first LP. Still kind of cool.

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Yellow Submarine is Pro-ject's stunning new Beatles-themed record player

The simple act of owning a turntable is enough to affirm your commitment to classic music, but Pro-ject's latest record spinner is for the truly dedicated.

Josh wants this.

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Listen up, audiophiles: Going Underground Records is now in East Hollywood | Hoodline

In need of some vinyl records? A new business has you covered.

I'm always happy to see a new record store open in LA.

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Crosley C6 Turntable Review: Upping the Entry-Level - GeekDad

Crosley's new C6 turntable offers an affordable and flexible upgrade path from its entry-level record players.

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This is the full list of Record Store Day 2018 releases - NME

The best day of shopping for audiophiles and music-lovers, Record Store Day is back for 2018. Check out this year’s full list of releases below. Hundreds of record labels have come forward with exclusive releases of new and classic singles, albums and s

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Third Man Records to release Supremes rarities on vinyl for the first time

Featuring little-heard studio material, outtakes and live recordings, the 4xLP box set claims to be among the first Motown records ever actually pressed in Detroit.

TheSupremes, Vinyl, VinylRecords, ThirdMan, Music

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Led Zeppelin Is Issuing An Unreleased Version Of ‘Rock And Roll’ For Record Store Day

The band is also putting out an alternate rendition of the ’Led Zeppelin III’ track ’Friends’ as well.

My favorite Zeppelin song! I generally don't buy overpriced singles-I may have to get this!

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Best Buy is pulling CDs from its stores — and people are freaking out

Best Buy will no longer sell CDs in its stores starting on July 1, and some people are not happy about it.

Sweet SWEET victory! I remember the day that I walked into a record store and all of the records were gone. Replaces by overly expensive, sterile sounding, CDs in ugly packaging. To make it worse, unlike what we were promised, they were less durable than records. It took over 30 years, but the time has arrived! Bye by CDs! And, incidentally, Best Buy now sells turntables and records.

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I’m finding meaning in music again with my old records, CDs & cassettes

Kelly McQuillan’s home is having an analog renaissance – and there should be one in yours, too

This is kind of an interesting article. I am obviously a little older than the author. I grew up firmly in the analog age in terms of music. And I have never had to find meaning in music. I love music and while that love ebbs and flows slightly, it's always part of my life. BUT I did quit collecting vinyl for a very long time and resuming that practice has forced me to enjoy music again in a way that I had forgotten about. Oh, and CDs suck. They have always sucked. The only thing they rekindle on rare occasions when I encounter one, is how much they suck.

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After The Vinyl Revival, The Vinyl-Playing Jukebox Is Back

Retro turntables anticipated the resurgence of vinyl records. Now, jukeboxes that play vinyl are returning to the market for the first time in more than two decades.

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Is Vinyl’s Comeback Here to Stay? | Pitchfork

It was extinct. It was a fad. It was a bubble about to burst. Vinyl has been consigned to the garbage heap of history more than once. Yet it’s still here—and still growing. In 2018, the once-forgotten format feels closer to the mainstream than it has in decades.

Yes. Yes it is.

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The list of 2017’s top-selling vinyl albums shows the format isn’t just for trendy fans

The Beatles, Ed Sheeran, and “Guardians of the Galaxy” soundtrack were on the list.

And The Beatles have the two top selling vinyl albums of the year in 2017, in a format that is as hip as Sgt. Pepper was in 1967.

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HarperAudio Goes Retro with New Vinyl Audiobook Series

Following successful vinyl record releases by Amy Poehler and others, HarperAudio plans to produce a series of spoken word vinyl audiobook titles (with accompanying digital editions) in 2018.

I don’t get the point.

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10 artists you didn't know designed record sleeves

Never mind Andy Warhol, there are several major artists whose work on the 12" canvas has never had the same recognition. Here are 10 of the best.

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Record sleeves designed by iconic artists explored in new exhibition

Art & Vinyl, a new exhibition looking at artwork created for vinyl over the past 70 years, has opened at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco.

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The most drool-worthy vinyl records of the 2017 - NME

From Ryan Adams' paper dolls to Lana's heart-shaped disc

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Discogs meets Match.com on Reverb's new online vinyl marketplace - The Vinyl Factory

“Ensuring that the right buyers and sellers find each other”.Music gear marketplace Reverb.com has launched new online marketplace Reverb LP dedicated to buying and selling vinyl and other physical music.Read more: Do bootlegs matter? What Discogs’.

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The 10 Best Funk Albums To Own On Vinyl

Like all genres, funk was a byproduct of circumstance. Not in the accidental sense of the word, but in the sense that art shapes and conforms to the context of the moment. For James Brown, funk was a divorce from the soul sound—and the band—that made him.

For those of you who need just a little bit more funk.

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Every crate digger’s nightmare: Record store has ‘Whipped Cream and Other Delights’ and nothing else | Dangerous M

  If there’s one thing all record collectors have in common, it’s the experience of running into Whipped Cream & Other Delights by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass innumerable times…. like literally, every time you go into a record store you h

Yeah. I've had the same experience. I don't think that there is a record store on the planet that doesn't have this. It was pretty creative of this guy to come up with this idea.

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STAX Celebrates 60 Years With Limited Edition 7" Singles Box Set | Analog Planet

Craft Recordings (a Concord Records imprint), which recently issued the 3 LP Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings just announced the Stax 7 Box Set, the first release in a year long celebration of the storied label's 60th

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This is the Lathe Miles Showell Used to Cut "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"

The lathe in the picture, located at Abbey Road Studios, is the one Miles Showell used to cut at 1/2 speed, the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band remix. It began life as a Neumann VMS82 DMM that according to Showell had been "...routinely strippe

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The Yardbirds Prep Jimmy Page-Produced Double-LP Compilation

Jimmy Page produced a double-LP Yardbirds compilation, 'Yardbirds '68,' featuring rare studio and live recordings.

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Home Grown: "There's this great sense of friendship and community with vinyl" - The Vinyl Factory

Because every record collection has a story.Home Grown is our series profiling you lot and your excellent record collections. Taking our cue from the brilliant submissions to the #VFRecordCollections thread on Instagram, we want to share a little of your.

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Vinyl’s boom is over as purists complain about low quality and high prices

“What people do nowadays is take a digital file and just run vinyl off that,” says Rawlings, a lanky musician who plays a 1935 Epiphone Olympic guitar. “In my mind, if we were going to do it, I wanted to do it the way the records I love were made—from analog tapes.”

I disagree that the boom is over because I don't think the market has reached the saturation point. BUT, it is extremely disappointing to find out that what is described here seems be common.

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The alternative top 50 records of the 1960s

50 years on from the Summer of Love, we take a fresh, sideways look at the extraordinarily diverse musical landscape of the most talked about decade in pop.

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This new machine uses lasers to determine the condition of your records

The RL Vinyl LP Laser is a turntable-like device that scans your records to trace what the surface of your record looks like.

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10 Turntables for Every Vinyl Enthusiast

As vinyl continues to drive music sales, here's a list of 10 turntables that cover any listening need, no matter your record player budget.

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David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ announced as latest, limited-edition 7” picture disc single series release

David Bowie’s Heroes has been announced as the 17th release in his 40th anniversary 7” picture disc series, which he launched on Record Store Day in 2012.

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Check out the exclusive vinyl releases at Comic Con 2017

Logan, Deadpool, Apes and more. Arguably the biggest day of the year for the nerdiverse, there’s more vinyl on offer than ever before at the 2017 San Diego convention. Running Thursday 20 July – 23rd July, here’s what’s been announced thus far...

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The Beatles Are On Top Of The Bestselling Vinyl List Of 2017 With A 50-Year-Old Album

Vinyl is cool again, but it's legacy acts that are still selling the most.

This is amazing. It still blows my mind that people will argue that the Beatles aren't just the greatest, but by far the most important, band in history. They have had incredible sales (and influence) in every decade since the 60s. What other musician or group of musicians can say that?

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Vinyl, the salvation of the music industry in the digital age—in charts, audio and some cats

Companies that connect consumers to their music have been struggling to find a business model since the internet made freemium a thing, so two bits of news this week are curious: SoundCloud is laying off 40% of it's staff. And Sony Music is going to pres

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Broke? This French Company Will Press Vinyl for Anyone's Budget - Thump

Diggers Factory is a new French startup that presses LPs based on pre-orders from interested fans.

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The vinyl jukebox is coming back into production after 25 years!

Crosley is creating the first vinyl jukebox in 25 years.

This story actually makes me happy!

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Sony is bringing vinyl back, but the truth is it never went away

Sony is restarting production of vinyl records, which reminds us why the format will never die.

Why does it surprise people that vinyl never disappeared when analog books never disappeared (and aren't even slightly in danger of disappearing). The decline of vinyl was because the record companies made a fortune by forcing CDs on people by removing LPs from stores and attempting to convince people that CDs were a far superior format. Then people realized that they weren't, and at the same time, streaming doesn't totally cut it either. People want tangible examples of the art they own.

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Start the Presses: The Exciting Rebirth of Vinyl Production | Digital Trends

After decades of struggling with ancient equipment and ten years of insane annual increases in demand, the vinyl manufacturing industry is taking its first new strides in decades, and that means prettier, better-sounding, and more diverse records than eve

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The 10 best vinyl releases this week (26th June)

This week's best new vinyl releases features new music from On The Corner, Analog Africa, Static Shock and La Vida Es Un Mus.

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Third Man Records to release deluxe reissue box set of The White Stripes' 'Icky Thump' - NME

It's been ten years since the record was originally released

1. How is it possible that the White Stripes started 20 years ago? 2. How can it be 10 years since this came out?

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Vinyl gets its groove back: Hunger for vinyl means a chronic shortage of pressing machines | The Economist

FOR young hipsters and middle-aged sentimentalists alike, the resurgence of vinyl is cause for celebration. Since 2010 sales of vinyl records in America have tripled. Britain’s vinyl industry saw its biggest gains for 25 years in 2016.

No one saw this coming. BUT, this is not nostalgia, it's an acknowledgement that art has a visual/tactile component that makes a purely digital version less fulfilling. Also, since the 50s, this was how created the music to be heard. Albums are a self contained unit and listening music that was conceived that way is a much different experience in it's intended format.

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Record Store Day 2017 Broke A Lot Of Records | News | Clash Magazine

Record Store Day 2017 Broke A Lot Of Records

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Freaky Formats: The hypnotic world of moiré effect record sleeves

DJ Food continues his occasional column on the stranger world of vinyl artwork, with moiré effect sleeves and some of the best gifs you'll see all day.

I care a lot more about the music than gimmicky sleeves, or even vinyl, but the design is interesting to me.

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Record Store Day By Numbers: Prince To Cohen, Vinyl Sales Surge 321%

New figures just released by Nielsen Music before the 10th Record Store Day show how the annual event has boosted the vinyl revolution.

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Vinyl shop owners pump up the specials for Record Store Day

Record stores offer incentives, rare releases on day devoted to vinyl.

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The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band gets 50th anniversary reissue

The Beatles will celebrate 50 years of their landmark 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with a major reissue project, spanning digital, 2xCD, 2xLP and 6xDisc packages.

On vinyl I already have my original kid-hood copy, the copy I got AT Abbey Road, a copy of the mono version and a picture disc. I also have it on CD and MP3s. But I may have to spring for the news vinyl edition.

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Warner Music Group Launches Run Out Groove, a Fan-Driven, Vinyl-Only Label: Exclusive | Billboard

Today (Mar. 28), Warner Music Group is officially unveiling its new fan-driven, vinyl-only record label Run Out Groove.

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​Screw Bluetooth. Here’s Why You Should Buy a Record Player | Men’s Health

​If you haven’t already wiped off the dust on turntable stored away in the basement, here’s three reasons why it’s time to get spinning.

This isn't the most in-depth article about vinyl records and collecting-but it may be a good starting point for some people!

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Podcast #289: The Revenge of Analog | The Art of Manliness

“Software is eating the world,” or so we’re told. Products that once took up physical space can be contained in our smartphones and held in the palms of our hands. Instead of having a record collection, now we can stream any music any where

I out this under "Vinyl" because they discuss it a lot. This is really about the revival of analog things in general though.

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Your tracks on wax: How to press your own record - Blog - Mixmag

The steps you need to take to get your own vinyl out there

I've always wanted to write a book...and make a record. The first steps are always writing and producing actual songs. So if you want to make a record, and have made actual music, this is how you do it.

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How To Build A Record Collection

Everything you need to know about vinyl

The best way to start a record collection is to have been born before about 1975. But if you aren't fortunate enough to have grown up when vinyl (which we called, surprise, "records") were the norm when you wanted to listen to music, now is definitely a great time to start collecting: vinyl is back baby. This article has some decent advice.

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Inside Jack White's New Vinyl-Pressing Paradise - Rolling Stone

Read how Third Man Records' new Detroit pressing facility is raising the bar for modern vinyl production.

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Long Play: Analogue photos that capture the essence of record culture

Photographer Arne Reimer has spent over ten years capturing the essence of vinyl culture on analogue film for new photo book, Long Play.

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Pro-Ject announces five more special edition Beatles turntables

Pro-Ject and Universal Music Group have announced that five further special Beatles-themed decks will be rolled out in the coming months.

When I was about 15 I would have been obsessed with having one of these!

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The Vinyl Revival: Why Music Lovers Are Going Back - KVRR Local News

FARGO-MOORHEAD -- Many music hobbyists here in the Valley are trading in their newer CDs for older records.

There are LOTS of articles about the vinyl revival, and most of them have the same cliches. This one does have some of that, but I also think it captures what it is for a lot of people.

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George Clinton among artist curators for new vinyl subscription service

Experience Vinyl, a new vinyl record subscription service, is launching in April with a series of artist curators, including George Clinton.

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How Do I Convert Vinyl LPs to Hi-Res Audio? | Sound & Vision

Are there any devices I can connect to my turntable to make hi-res transfers of my record collection?

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10 weird and wonderful hi-fi adverts from the 1970s | What Hi-Fi?

Featuring AKG, Bose and Mission, this is a selection of the more surreal and surprising advertisements featured in What Hi-Fi? magazine in the 1970s

I love these old hi-fi ads. There are much better ones than these, but these are good.

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The 10 best vinyl releases this week (23rd January)

President Trump is dominating world news but here in the vinyl world, the headline is Mica Levi's masterpiece score to the new Jackie Kennedy biopic.

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Retro record: Vinyl sales to top $1bn for first time since the 1980s | The Independent

A retro record could be in sight for the music market. According to a report out Wednesday, annual sales of vinyl records will surpass $1bn (£820m) for the first time since the 1980s this year, fuelled by music lovers’ nostalgia.

Vinyl sales topped $1 BILLION last year, yet (some) people still insist that it's just nostalgia or a hipster affectation. It isn't, records are a different, and superior, listening experience to digital music (which is more convenient and has its own advantages) and CDs.

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The Origin of The Rarest and Most Sought After Pressing of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" | Analog Pl

AnalogPlanet reader Bill Wright interviews Australian mastering engineer Don Bartley, who cut lacquers back in 1983 for what many consider to be the best sounding and certainly the rarest pressing of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, produced by EMI

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Weird wax: The strangest stories from the world of vinyl in 2016

We collect the oddest occurrences of 2016, from deaf cats and electricity pylons to jigsaw records and a nude John Malkovich.

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Vinyl records top the popularity charts - CNET

From CNET Magazine: The demand for vinyl records -- from hipster millennials, retro-fans and musicians -- is spinning up faster than ever.

" You might say what's old is new again. Last year, vinyl record sales hit $416 million, the highest since 1988.

There are two big surprises about who's doing the buying. First, 72 percent are younger than 36. And second, almost half of the people buying records don't even listen to them. For that group, a record collection is a fashion statement, and hipster Urban Outfitters is one of vinyl's biggest sellers."

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Essential Gifts For Music Lovers

Vinyl. Lots and lots of vinyl.

I am not saying that this is a hint, but it may be a hint, I mean, useful...yes, "useful," that's the one!

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The 50 most collectable records of the 1950s

The first in a new series picking out the rare and revolutionary recorded artefacts of the last sixties years of recorded music. We start, with the 1950s.

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The 10 best vinyl releases this week (21st November)

Relive the horror of the Upside Down as the first volume of the analogue-heavy soundtrack to Stranger Things, Vol. 1 finally lands on vinyl.

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6 Vinyl Subscription Services Perfect For The Music Lover In Your Life

Vinyl clubs are the cool new thing, and these are the best of the best.

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Music Subscription Service Pairs Craft Beer With Vinyl

Hurd offers monthly record releases along with four independently-made brews.

It's a beer and vinyl kind of day!

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