Records, LP's or Vinyl?

Discussion in 'Audio Hardware' started by Om, Jul 23, 2014.

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  1. Ortofun

    Ortofun Well-Known Member

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    Ah.... :love:
    i loved those old Capri's, was it a v6?
     
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  2. Colin M

    Colin M Forum Resident

    No just 1600
     
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  3. ssmith3046

    ssmith3046 Forum Resident

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    rekerds.
     
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    ssmith3046 Forum Resident

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  5. Thurenity

    Thurenity Listening to some tunes

  6. tyinkc

    tyinkc Senior Member

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    Vinyl, records, LP's equally.
     
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  7. Jim in Houston

    Jim in Houston The Godfather of Alt-Country & Punk

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    The albums/LPs in my record collection are made of vinyl, and the shiny silver discs are albums/records of the recording session at which they were made
     
  8. theron d

    theron d Forum Resident

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    hot wax
     
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  9. Defdum&blind

    Defdum&blind Forum Resident

    Great! Now the hipsters will participate.
     
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  10. Bill Hart

    Bill Hart Forum Resident

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    I think I used to call them records. But, when the CD came out, 'vinyl' became a necessary distinction. At that point, it was "oh, you are still using vinyl?" (as in, you poor soul).
    Now, it's like "Oh, vinyl, cool." (like, dude, you must be very hip, what's your favorite handcrafted beer?)
    They're still just records to me. (And I've still got records I bought in the 60's when I was a teen).
     
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  11. Michael Ries

    Michael Ries Forum Resident

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    in the interest if being all inclusive, "hot stampers" should also be on the list to get the affluent audiophile involved.
     
  12. Robin L

    Robin L Musical Omnivore

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    Nobody calls CDs "Polycarbonates" right? And the inventors of the 12" 33 1/3 rpm vinyl record chose to call that object an LP. So they're LPs, end of story.
     
  13. Om

    Om Make Your Own Kind Of Music Thread Starter

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  14. tman53

    tman53 Vinyl is an Addiction

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    All three for me. Why would you call them anything else?
     
  15. druboogie

    druboogie Maverick Stacker

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    Because "Sizzle Platters" is cooler. LP is for the establishment maaaaaaaaahhhnnn!
     
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  16. tman53

    tman53 Vinyl is an Addiction

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    Call me the maaaaaaaahhhnnn!
     
  17. ElizabethH

    ElizabethH Forum Resident

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    Call them 'Zombies' because the came BACK from the dead. :whistle:
     
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  18. phish

    phish Jack Your Body

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    want to know about italo-disco?
     
  19. Slick Willie

    Slick Willie Decisively Indecisive

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    I voted "vinyl", but use "LP" just as much. I also use records and plastic platters.
     
  20. drh

    drh Talking Machine

    Well, except that they didn't, really. As best I can tell, it was the contemporary press/advertising establishment that did--admittedly, very promptly. Originally, it was "Long Playing record." In a record guide of the day, one of the big-name critics (Harold Schonberg or Irving Kolodin, one of the two, I think) remarked rather sniffily on the adoption of the "solipsism LP" for the full title.

    That said, I prefer "LP" to "album" and either to "vinyl(--shudder--s)" for 33 1/3 records.
     
  21. Robin L

    Robin L Musical Omnivore

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    Judging from the appearance of the label—the label Columbia used when the Long Playing Microgroove discs first appeared—Columbia used the "LP" logo right from the start:

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  22. The Entertainer

    The Entertainer Forum Resident

    I have, reviewers do it all the time.
     
  23. Pinknik

    Pinknik Senior Member

    I call them by the first three choices.
     
  24. drh

    drh Talking Machine

    Yes, but not as the "name" by which one would refer to the product--"LP" was just the trademark for a "Long Playing Microgroove record." Leastways, as I understand it, that was the intent. Of course, naturally, people promptly took "LP" as much easier and quicker to say than "Long Playing Microgroove record" and adopted the two letter mark as the name of the product proper. Rather in the way "escalator" quickly displaced "moving staircase."
     
  25. Josquin des Prez

    Josquin des Prez I have spoken!

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    I call it my album collection, which isn't in the poll. Always have, ever since I started collecting some 40 years ago. So did everyone else I knew then. Of course, in those days an album meant a vinyl LP automatically. There wasn't any of this new fangled CD or other digital stuff.
     
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