“I don’t get it,” my Dad told me as I unwrapped his graduation present, an ION Pure Audio Record Player. A gift that had been sitting atop my wish list for over a year. “Enjoy the pops and crackles,” he said as I thanked him.
He had grown up in the golden age of vinyl in the ’60s and ’70s and happily upgraded to CDs when they came along, and now his CD collection is only used when it’s contents needs to be uploaded onto a hard drive.
He warned me that the vinyl comeback is just a marketing craze. The notion that vinyl produces a warmer, less compressed sound may be true scientifically, but the difference isn’t substantial. The issues that have always plagued vinyl records; their tendency to deteriorate over time and use, the extreme care that one must employ when using and storing them, remain unabated.
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