Canuck Audio Mart

I'm curious to see how the readership numbers breakdown in here wrt to what playback format was most prominent when you got started in this hobby and formed your reference?

Thanks

- Kerry

I started with Vinyl around 1980 and moved my way into cassette several years later.

VINYL....... in the 60's ......... ouch ! D.R.

I remember cleaning and spinning zep, jethro tull, fleetwood mac when I was 8 yrs old on my dads new system. What a good dad!

I guess you're looking to correlate these numbers with your other poll, Kerry. Intersting. My guess is you'll find the majority who grew up with analogue (the 45 to 55 and up groups) will still prefer it.

Maybe it's just a fondness for the good ol' days.....

I am in the above demographic but for me LPs just have that sense of depth that cds lack. I should says LPs played on tables like when I grew up - the better Duals, Thorens, good Japanese Direct Drives and the better UK tables (Rega, Linn etc). I am not as fond of the new style of clean and lean tables such as Clearaudio, Pro-ject etc (although they do amazing things). The young kids in our office that collect vinyl prefer these to the old style decks - because they sound like good cd players with added detail and a bigger soundstage.

I started my audio journey in the mid 90s, taping songs from the radio and creating my own mixtapes on the old Sony boombox. Lots of fun!

Actually, Tapes should have been separated from vinyl, as they are not from the same years. I'm 23 years old and tape was definitively the way to go when I was a child as vinyls seamed obsoletes. CDs did exist, but they costed more (remember I'm 10 years old) and you couldn't tape directly from the radio with them. I still own my old mixtapes and my musical tastes were... not that bad! Except for those years where dance music was cool.

With the cd as the new reference it's easy to see why the record player has had to change. I don't mind the new detailed type of sound - I prefer it. But I also want the dynamics that are lacking in so many of the newer recordings.

Plus, with a million different permutations possible with a vinyl rig, who needs to roll tubes?

I ticked the first one "Cylinder machine/Gramophone," but really, cylinders were a TINY part of the overall industry in the days of the 78s. The last cylinders were released in 1929, so anyone "influenced" by them would now be at least 90 years old! I was brought up listening to jazz, rock and roll, and classical 78s in the 1950s...

The choice should have been "78s/shellac." Then "Vinyl" would cover the 1950s onwards, as would tape. The remaining choices, somewhat properly laid out, are Hardware digital, such as CD and SACD, and software (PC/Mac) digital such as MP3.

And what about radio as the main influence? My other main window to the world of Rock was what I was hearing on the RADIO in the 1960s. Sometimes I'd record that to open-reel.

Ahh.

Cassette head.

Listened to vinyl. Rush. " Moving Pictures " Tom Sawyer was awesome.

But at my age. Heck... I was 11 maybe 12 at the time.

So tape decks did it for me. I still remember the power hour on the radio. Ozzy, Metallica, Priest, etc.. I used to Tape that stuff.

As i moved on...So many different audio curiosities.

Bought my first vinyl 45 in 1969, The Beatles - 'Yellow Submarine' - I was 4 years old! Used vinyl, alot of 8-tracks & cassettes, then CD's by the early 80's. Still haven't made the jump to computer or MP3 based music as I still prefer vinyl & CD's for playback & cassettes for recording stuff for my car.

Added 78/Shellac.

Was going to add radio but it spanned too many eras.

I think radio is a given for many of us.....
For me, it was LP and cassettes, my Dad got me into open reel tape.

I taped Moving Pictures on a mono portable cassette player off my clock radio . The tapes were `The Music Tape`by Capitol Records - truly awful.

Months later I bought an all in one stereo with turntable and got it on vinyl - still have my original copy and it still sounds great. I made lots of tapes on a proper machine of stuff I could not afford to buy, but have most of it on LP now.

I feel sad for the younger generation since there will not be much physical media in the future. Hard drives and ipods last 2-3 years, so what will they reminisce with.

back in 1970 my grandma gave me an old record player
my first record i bought was the stampeders..new day. think that was a couple years later. 72-73
took an old speaker dad had in the shop and hooked it up to the original inside the record player
sauldered it myself and set it up on the other side of the room
was only a tweeker at the time.. maybe 9 or 10
but still remember the folks hollering at me to turn it down

ah those were the days