Metal Pet Peeves

[Barnacle Billy]

Absolutely 

The absolute sweet spot for most genuine music enthusiast's very good audiophile vinyl set up is between €2000 to €3000...
You've got a music collection worth €20,000 to €30,000 and you're lashing it onto a €200 to €400 set up? Ah c'mon now 

[Bürggermeister]

Records are a fucking terrible playback medium for audio signals, lads. There's nothing which involves "vinyl" audio which isn't bleedin' morto. Big artwork, rituals, etc, yeah grand but it sounds fucking terrible if what you're looking (and you really should be) for is an authentic recreation of the music as envisaged by the artist and producer.

But, yeah, it's the only thing selling at the moment so, yeah, amazing vinyl, keeping the music business going into 2026 

[Thorn]

I'd agree with that, cd is my preferred format but a cool cover art will always have me eyeing a vinyl purchase. Maybe if I had that elaborate set up referred to there by Bill I'd think differently but fuck that, I grew up with ghetto blasters, double deck stereos and 3 in 1 Hi-Fi's and paying exorbitant amounts for a turntable set up is totally out of the question and completely needless for me . #notanaudiophile

[Barnacle Billy]

Records are a fucking terrible playback medium for audio signals, lads. There's nothing which involves "vinyl" audio which isn't bleedin' morto. Big artwork, rituals, etc, yeah grand but it sounds fucking terrible if what you're looking (and you really should be) for is an authentic recreation of the music as envisaged by the artist and producer.

But, yeah, it's the only thing selling at the moment so, yeah, amazing vinyl, keeping the music business going into 2026 

and you... are talking bollix

[Bürggermeister]

Nah

[Sworntothecans]

Absolutely 

The absolute sweet spot for most genuine music enthusiast's very good audiophile vinyl set up is between €2000 to €3000...
You've got a music collection worth €20,000 to €30,000 and you're lashing it onto a €200 to €400 set up? Ah c'mon now 

The one I saw was suitcase job with OG Japanese Slayer records.

Stupid cunt was humble bragging "paid a small fortune for these but worth it".

On a €100 turntable connected to a feckin' Bluetooth speaker.

[Barnacle Billy]

Absolutely 

The absolute sweet spot for most genuine music enthusiast's very good audiophile vinyl set up is between €2000 to €3000...
You've got a music collection worth €20,000 to €30,000 and you're lashing it onto a €200 to €400 set up? Ah c'mon now 

The one I saw was suitcase job with OG Japanese Slayer records.

Stupid cunt was humble bragging "paid a small fortune for these but worth it".

On a €100 turntable connected to a feckin' Bluetooth speaker.

Me bleedin eyes are bleeding after reading that 

I've absolutely no doubt in my mind that each rotation of that 'deck' was literally destroying every single groove on those records...

[Sworntothecans]

If they can Google "First pressing vinyl" they should be able to Google a decent affordable setup that won't kill your records.

[Carnage]

Records are a fucking terrible playback medium for audio signals, lads. There's nothing which involves "vinyl" audio which isn't bleedin' morto. Big artwork, rituals, etc, yeah grand but it sounds fucking terrible if what you're looking (and you really should be) for is an authentic recreation of the music as envisaged by the artist and producer.

Correctamundo. Vinyl sounds objectively shite. I want to hear the music, not the pops and clicks from a flawed, imferior format.

[Barnacle Billy]

Keep your records and stylus clean then   

[Bürggermeister]

You can keep it clean as a nun's gowl but it still sounds shite 

[91/30]

You can keep it clean as a nun's gowl but it still sounds shite 

   I have hundreds of LPs but yeah you're 100% right, always some spittin and fartin going on with records

[Eoin McLove]

Tired argument, lord jaysus.

[ochoill]

None of it matters anyway since it was proven that technically the best possible way of listening to music was through a CD played in the early runs of Playstations that still had the aux out on them (before they moved to scart and some other proprietary connector).  I am not even joking there is a write up on it online.  I think I even posted it here before somewhere.  Anyway it makes no odds

[Barnacle Billy]

Yeah, I had an old Sony surround sound (5 speaker) DVD player and the sound playing CDs on it was next level.
I gave it to a mate last year before I emigrated. I hope he's enjoying it as much as I did...
God bless Sony...