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For the Older Generations 40+. How do you feel about mobile devices?

Superfly said:
Couldn't agree more. I love the technological changes that we've gone through since I was a kid. I love having 1,000 books in my purse, or 1,000 songs in my pocket. I love not ever having to worry about forgetting somebody's phone number, or not being home to get that crucial phone call.

One thing I do miss - records. I am on the hunt for a record player, and records. I don't know - I just miss the crackling, popping sounds that come with listening to records, plus I miss the richness of listening to a record, that is hard to find anywhere else.
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Gawd I HATED that vinyl records scratched and popped! (LOL)
I was one of those obsessives who cleaned and cared for my records to the point where NOBODY wanted to so much as take them out to even LOOK at them...I would be on them and watching like a hawk and nobody was allowed to PUT one of my records on. I never allowed anybody to touch my turntable or my vinyl unless they had proved they could be incredibly careful.

If I were to invest in a turntable today to replace my current one I would have to spend an enormous amount of money because I would want one of those laser units that don't actually touch the disc at all.
Most of them go for around ten large! (YIKES!)
 
Superfly said:
Couldn't agree more. I love the technological changes that we've gone through since I was a kid. I love having 1,000 books in my purse, or 1,000 songs in my pocket. I love not ever having to worry about forgetting somebody's phone number, or not being home to get that crucial phone call.

One thing I do miss - records. I am on the hunt for a record player, and records. I don't know - I just miss the crackling, popping sounds that come with listening to records, plus I miss the richness of listening to a record, that is hard to find anywhere else.
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Oh yeah, if you DO transfer your vinyl to digital yourself, don't use the typical consumer mp3 settings, use MP3-320 instead, because the higher bit rate and bit depth will give you a much richer listening experience with a lot of the "warmth" of analog. That is the problem with consumer mp3.

And the industry standard for PCM WAV isn't much better due to the lousy bit depth which kills off the highs too much.
But since mp3 seems to dominate everything but commercial CD's I do recommend MP3-320 at 48 khz sample rate.
The typical consumer mp3 setting is 128 at 44.1 khz.

Now, this MIGHT be problematic if you stick to consumer software to load and archive your music. I don't use typical consumer software like iTunes or whatever.
I usually load everything from the software I transferred it from, which in most cases for me happens to be Sony Vegas Pro.

So I guess you have to sort of "get your geek on" a little bit if really want a better mp3 listening experience, but it is definitely worth it.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
Gawd I HATED that vinyl records scratched and popped! (LOL)
I was one of those obsessives who cleaned and cared for my records to the point where NOBODY wanted to so much as take them out to even LOOK at them...I would be on them and watching like a hawk and nobody was allowed to PUT one of my records on. I never allowed anybody to touch my turntable or my vinyl unless they had proved they could be incredibly careful.

If I were to invest in a turntable today to replace my current one I would have to spend an enormous amount of money because I would want one of those laser units that don't actually touch the disc at all.
Most of them go for around ten large! (YIKES!)
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Yikes. :lol: I'll stick with one of those cheapy console ones that double as a piece of furniture. That reminds me of my childhood, anyway. I almost bought one at a thrift store a few months back, but the clerk was rude, and I don't give my money to rude clerks.

You can buy cheap, crappy record players at Target. I may just get one from there until I can find the kind I want to get, and then throw the cheap one on Craigslist.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
Oh yeah, if you DO transfer your vinyl to digital yourself, don't use the typical consumer mp3 settings, use MP3-320 instead, because the higher bit rate and bit depth will give you a much richer listening experience with a lot of the "warmth" of analog. That is the problem with consumer mp3.

And the industry standard for PCM WAV isn't much better due to the lousy bit depth which kills off the highs too much.
But since mp3 seems to dominate everything but commercial CD's I do recommend MP3-320 at 48 khz sample rate.
The typical consumer mp3 setting is 128 at 44.1 khz.

Now, this MIGHT be problematic if you stick to consumer software to load and archive your music. I don't use typical consumer software like iTunes or whatever.
I usually load everything from the software I transferred it from, which in most cases for me happens to be Sony Vegas Pro.

So I guess you have to sort of "get your geek on" a little bit if really want a better mp3 listening experience, but it is definitely worth it.
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Sounds like it's a trade off. WAVs take up a lot more space than mp3s. Better sound = bigger file, maybe?
 
Definitely but not as large as a WAV file.
Again, it's very much worth the extra trouble.

Put it this way, I produced a national radio call-in talk and interview show last year and
our format used two different hosts in two different cities at two different studios and a call in interview guest.

The entire show was recorded in and edited as an mp3-320 file and we posted it to air as such too.
Never a complaint from network whatsoever, they loved it and said it sounded wonderful, so it passed network quality control.

Technically it's NOT a lossless format but the losses are usually negligible.
 
Superfly said:
Yikes. :lol: I'll stick with one of those cheapy console ones that double as a piece of furniture. That reminds me of my childhood, anyway. I almost bought one at a thrift store a few months back, but the clerk was rude, and I don't give my money to rude clerks.

You can buy cheap, crappy record players at Target. I may just get one from there until I can find the kind I want to get, and then throw the cheap one on Craigslist.
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We had one of those, complete with a radio built in, back before TV reached our little town. I can remember listening to the Lone Ranger on it. How's that for nostalgia? Oh, the good old days. You can keep them.
 
Dittohead not! said:
We had one of those, complete with a radio built in, back before TV reached our little town. I can remember listening to the Lone Ranger on it. How's that for nostalgia? Oh, the good old days. You can keep them.
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:lol:
 
Baralis said:
Do you feel that some people today over use technologies that allow them to stay connected to others?
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No doubt about it. It's hard to hold a conversation with co-workers, especially younger ones, on breaks. They spend all of their time on their phones, playing games or talking to or texting their friends. So usually I just head to a quiet-room to read a magazine or newspaper, until someone enters the room and starts talking on their phone. No etiquette whatsoever. I remember walking through a Target a few months ago and-- I kid you not-- this woman was recounting a visit to her gynecologist.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
If I were to invest in a turntable today to replace my current one I would have to spend an enormous amount of money because I would want one of those laser units that don't actually touch the disc at all. Most of them go for around ten large! (YIKES!)
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Our youngest son (He's 25) recently bought a late-1970s-vintage Technics turntable on eBay. I was shocked to find out that the needle (a Shibata stylus) was worth more than the rest of the unit. Now he's dropping some major bucks on vinyl records. (E.g., he just spent $80 on a limited edition version of the soundtrack to Frozen.) Now he's got me interested in starting a vinyl collection again. (I just gave all of mine to him. :lol:) I'm thinking about British rock bands from the 1960's-'70's-- The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, etc.
 
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