How about vinyl?

Wish I could upload the experience of listening to LP vs SACD played thru my Wadia, but once digitized and compressed for YouTube the listeners wont be hearing the difference! With LP the sound fills the WHOLE LISTENING SPACE (yes, as in all caps!), but with even the best digital it forces me into upgrading something!
In short: Wish I Were There!!!

 

Yes! I know Paquito's wonderful channel (I think that's he's real name) and of course I am a subscriber. Good one!

 

Very well put Jorge!

 

I concur Vinyl is awesome.

 

Brilliant videos James! Man I miss my Vimeo channel! Can you believe they deleted my channel because I guess I had 3 strikes against me for copyrighted material? Honestly, like no warning like on YouTube? WTF? I would have gladly removed the offending videos if they had given me a warning.

Anyway I have created a new Vimeo channel using an alternate e-mail address but of course the free version can't really host a video of any consequence so it forces my hand to have to buy more space and I am not ready to give them my business because I am still mad at them deleting my other channel. Bastards!

 

Ok James problem fixed! With my new Vimeo account I just started to follow you so I will be able to get notices every time you upload something new. Cheers!

 

Oh Man thats horrible, I didn't think Vimeo would do that. How on earth can you demonstrate the gear without aligning it with the correct source material. Maybe we should run our own vimeo clone, I could easily set that up. It would be safer to our videos.

 

Vinyl, portable playing device, cassette - I think it fits this topic and this forum

So, I picked up a 1986 Sony UX-S, Type II audio cassette on a garage sale. The J-card says that it is a recording of WWOZ radio in New Orleans, 90.7 FM. This non-profit community-supported radio station was founded in 1980 and plays mostly the music from or related to the cultural heritage of New Orleans and the surrounding region of Louisiana, including Jazz, Blues, bluegrass and Gospel.

Much of the station’s programming has long been based on the large personal record collections of the various programmers, many of which were lost to the Hurricane Katrina.

The recorded radio broadcast includes a part where V-Discs were played, so I got interested what they were. V-Discs were records made for hand-cranked 78-rpm gramophones but pressed on vinyl. So, they were probably the earliest vinyl discs pressed in the U.S. Below is a copyedited and condensed snippet from savethevinyl.org, which is also included in the first three minutes of the video linked below.

V-Disc ("V" for Victory) was an initiative involving the production of several series of musical recordings for the United States military personnel during the World War II era.

The project began in 1941, and by 1942 the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) acquired the material from special recording sessions, concerts, recitals, radio broadcasts, film sound tracks and commercial records. The initiative was complicated by a strike of the members of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), which lasted from 1942 through 1944. In 1943, the striking musicians agreed to make records for the military as long as the discs were not sold and the masters were disposed of.

The 12-inch 78 rpm gramophone recordings were pressed between October 1943 and May 1949 by major civilian record companies like RCA Victor and Columbia Records and became an instant hit overseas. The selection included big band hits, swing music, jazz, classical performances from symphony orchestras, and military marches. Many V-Discs contained spoken-word introductions by bandleaders and artists, wishing good luck for the soldiers overseas.

After the V-Disc program ended in 1949, the original masters and stampers were destroyed. Leftover V-Discs at bases and on ships were discarded. On some occasions, discs were confiscated from the servicemen who had smuggled them home.

The video has the above intro, and then 22 minutes of uninterrupted radio broadcast.