THE record that woke you up to how wonderful vinyl can sound......

B y that I mean a record you had always liked,maybe loved...and then via serendipity or good advice,arrived at a system that could do the medium justice. My road to Damascus choice? "Mysterious Traveller",courtesy of Weather Report. Cross rhythms in abundance,unexpected key changes,layers from Zawinul plucked from the ether.I have been warned that this hi-fi hobby can become addictive

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Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill

Warm and immersive, the CD can't compete.

 

Led Zeppelin II

 

It was a particular song - "Kiss" by Prince. I'd heard it before but never really taken any notice of it, but when a friend played it on his Rega Planar 3 it just blew my socks off.

That was the song that made me want a decent separates system, and as soon as that happened my taste in music just exploded in all sorts of interesting directions that I never would have considered with my Pioneer midi system.

 

Quincy Jones - The Dude.

Immaculate sounding. It uses the same master as the CD, but it is perfect on both formats. No one can beat Bernie Grudman and Bruce Swedien. Nobody.

 

Maybe I was not clear..my intention was to discover what record you thought you knew "inside out" that suddenly took on a completely different life when heard in all its glory

 

There hasn't been one. I recently got a stereo receiver and realized that vinyl doesn't sound as bad as I thought it would, but I still prefer the perfect sound of CDs to the warm and imperfect sound of vinyl.

 

Steely Dan - Aja

 

For me it was The Kinks' Lola vs the Powerman and the Moneygoround.

 

About 10 years ago I was out doing my daily run, and I thought I'd like to listen to Clapton's Just One Night set which I only owned on vinyl. While sitting there and listening I kept looking at my system and thinking "Why does this sound so good, so much more detailed?" Answer > vinyl! This lp set is not at all even considered to be a bastion of great sound, but since then 90% of my listening time has been records. FWIW, I started buying records in 1954.

 

Pet Sounds from the Carl & the Passions 2fer.

 

Lots of 'em:

LZ II - RL cut
Steely Dan - Aja
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
Boston - Wally cut
AC/DC - Back in Black RL cut
List goes on...

 

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks Steve's cut
Cat Stevens - Teaser and The Firecat Lee Hulko cut
LZ IV - porky/pecko duck cut

 

I got back into vinyl in 2012. It was The Police Synchronicity (RL) and Robert Plant's Shaken N Stirred that sealed the deal for me.

 

Neil Young's Sleeps with the Angels shows how wonderfull a digital recording can sound on vinyl format

 

In the early 2000's I only used my turntable for albums that were not yet on CD. As soon as I purchased an album on CD, I usually sold off the LP. I had a handful of albums that still weren't available on CD so I listened to them on vinyl. One such album was John Renbourn's Live in America. It is a great sounding live recording. Very lifelike. When I bought John Renbourn's Live in America on CD, I was surprised at how flat it sounded compared to the LP. This was the first moment of epiphany for me. I began to go back and listen to all my LPs with a critical ear and was surprised at how great some of them sounded.



Another album that I still listened to on vinyl because the CD wasn't available was Peter Michael Hamel's Nada. Again, when I finally got the CD, I was surprised at how good the vinyl version sounded in comparison.



I really credit these two albums for making me see the light.

 

I collected vinyl from 'way' back in the 70's (well my first LP was a Beatles album in the 60's that the babysitter left on my dad's tube amp and it warped - so maybe that doesn't count - although I have not forgiven her).

My musical interest waned in the 90's, but I got back into vinyl around 2009.

I upgraded my TT and cart and got a good valued int amp along with some re-issued vinyl.

I played a pristine copy of Heart's Dreamboat Annie...and wept at the sonic goodness.

 

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium

 

There wasn't any 'one.' I remember how good most vinyl sounded back around 1975 when I started to upgrade my stereo system. Elton John, Eagles, Black Oak Arkansas -- I thought how wonderful to hear a pick on a guitar string, a sense of space around the instruments, etc.

 

Back in the late '90s, my cousin played this for me on his Dual turntable, hooked up to a Marantz 2215B, through Advents. Superstitious sounded so damn beefy! And of course, a bit before that, I owned Black Sabbath Vol. 4 on the white '80s WB label, and wondered why it sounded better than my cassette and CD. Of course there were more experiences with records, but all of that culminated to the purchase of a VPI Classic.

 

Do needledrops count? I was blown away by Fleet Foxes S/T on vinyl.

 

Supertramp MFSL

jerol

 

Do you mean an album that came alive and sounded more realistic with a system upgrade? That can happen with digital or analogue.

I mean I listened to Thin Lizzy on a crappy trebly Craig car stereo and then on a boombox before I ever heard a stereo system. I also listened Elvis 45s on a cheap Sears fold away TT. Later when I got the money to buy a decent system, sure, it was a difference. Hearing Thin Lizzy blasting over some wattage and big old Klipsch horns was much different. Same when I heard the DCC Elvis stuff. It was more exciting, more realistic and the groove factor went up.

But, did I enjoy it more? I doubt it. Nothing can replace hearing those Elvis EPs for the first time as a little kid and imagining your a cross between Brando/Dean/Elvis/Alice Cooper and Nugent. Nor will the fun of sticking my hand out the passenger car window of my brothers Nova as "The Boys Are Back In Town" blasted while we road down the black rolling ribbons of highway to some friends house. Thats the real excitement. The thrill of music. Not some audiophile nirvana. And no sound upgrade can out do that time.

 

Then what's the point of your posting on a thread titled "the record that woke you up to how wonderful vinyl can sound..."?
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