What is vinyl? What are vinyls? (ft. Audio Phil)

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2 ай бұрын

Audio Phil fills us in on correct audiophile terminologies.
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@marxman00 2 ай бұрын

Vinyls = a collection of uniquely distorted recordings

@ac81017 2 ай бұрын

Snap , crackle and pop.

@iNuchalHead 2 ай бұрын

Is that your vinyl answer?

@AudioMasterclass 2 ай бұрын

Love that show. Won’t be going on and embarrassing myself though.

@philipkershaw7918 2 ай бұрын

Hahaha. No. I'd like to ask the audiophile.

@remcogreve7982 2 ай бұрын

Way back and in an other country we called them lp’s . Vinyl is a bit like calling cd’s polycarbonate’s

@taidee 2 ай бұрын

Here in South Africa we also call them LPs, guess it can get tricky when the LP is EP 🤣

@thefloop2813 2 ай бұрын

LP just means long play, and its a format of record. The record industry i believe still calls full length 8+ track albums LPs. And smaller collections of songs ep's. Im probably wrong but thats how i understand it here in hillbilly TN. LP can apply to vinyl discs, cd, or just a release of music in general from my perspective. I must sound like audio phil rn

@PeeOrbital 2 ай бұрын

@@taideeWe also called them 'plate' in Afrikaans.

@DeltaJazzUK 2 ай бұрын

We never called it vinyl back in the day. Classical and Jazz fans listened to LPs and rock fans listened to albums.

@markdecker2112 2 ай бұрын

You have just triggered half of discogs in your plural use of vinyl. Keep it up!

@philipkershaw7918 2 ай бұрын

Each vinyl record has its own unique history actually encoded onto its surface. And with the right replay equipment it is possible to hear this history. Although the underlying music can interfere with this process.

@humblestever24 2 ай бұрын

Was with you until the last sentence.

@ModernClassic 2 ай бұрын

I guess it makes sense... a tape is a tape, a vinyl is a vinyl. We were always misusing terms back in the day based just on what was popular. An "LP" was just a long-playing vinyl record. (It was not a synonym for "vinyl", which could also come in EP or SP forms.) A "record" itself was just a collection of music, but the format was unspecified (unless it was otherwise) - we just assumed it meant vinyl because that's what was popular, and that became kind of a shorthand. But CD, tape and vinyl are all formats in themselves, and if we say "CD's" and "tapes", there's no reason we shouldn't say "vinyls", with "records" meaning released recordings that could be on any of those formats, or others beyond that. There's a reason the Grammys give out "record of the year", not "vinyl of the year" or "tape of the year".

@Kr-nv5fo 2 ай бұрын

My collection of vinyl is 13 kilograms of pellets in various colours.

@ericdere 2 ай бұрын

They are called “records”

@zackreuter6344 2 ай бұрын

What about my collection of 8 tracks? Aren't those tapes? They may be crappy tapes (they are) but it was all we had for the car back in the day. They were awesome to a high school kid in the 70s. There was ample road noise to drown out the hiss.

@humblestever24 2 ай бұрын

Nothing to do with vinyl. Guess you are Gen Zzzzz....

@MarkThomas-hm3ju 2 ай бұрын

Actually 8 tracks were 8 tracked and they actually sounded very good.

@zackreuter6344 2 ай бұрын

@@humblestever24You just don't know what you are missing. Record a well used album onto an 8 track for the best of both worlds. You get all the distortion and pops of vinyl, squeezed through a medium full of hiss, squeaky rollers, the occasional dragging tape, dirty tape heads. Bliss!

@humblestever24 2 ай бұрын

@@zackreuter6344 Yep, the good 'ol days. They promised us flying cars and we got (anti)social media. That's a misquote of somebody. And compressed files.

@darryldouglas6004 2 ай бұрын

Agreed. Also any collection of songs on any form of record is also an album. 😃

@AudioMasterclass 2 ай бұрын

I have a feeling this might come from 78s when a long piece like a symphony would cover several discs enclosed in an album. Not that I remember that but I’ve seen plenty at boot sales.

@darryldouglas6004 2 ай бұрын

@@AudioMasterclass Hmm. Very good point. I think of it as a collection of similar things. Like a wedding photo album. But I like your pov.

@sguttag 2 ай бұрын

As I understand it, when it was a collection of records (more than one disc) then it became an "album." Growing up (in the 60s and 70s), Records, LPs and Albums were used interchangeably. 78s were still around though I don't recall ever seeing any new ones for sale. 45s were referred to as that, 45s and "singles." I never heard of a collection of 45s as an album as two or more of them didn't form a cohesive work like the LPs did. There were there to promote the "hit." And, if it became a hit, sell the LP. Of course, The Beatles mucked all of that up by having double-A sides on their 45s (setting aside the EPs) and excluding the singles from the LPs.

@darryldouglas6004 2 ай бұрын

@@sguttag Interesting. I grew up in the 70’ s. My oldest brother had 78s some of which came in a fanfold type box which is what you are describing as an album. I agree the terminology changed because we commonly referred to any record of multiple songs as an album.

@humblestever24 2 ай бұрын

Also photos.

@thexfile. 2 ай бұрын

$10,000+ of equipment for 5 dollar vinyl.

@SoundSignals 2 ай бұрын

This feels like this a troll video, but here's me taking the bait. The plural of Vinyl is Vinyl. We don't say look at the Sheeps do we 😅

@philipkershaw7918 2 ай бұрын

What's a sheeps???

@SoundSignals 2 ай бұрын

@@philipkershaw7918Exactly 😂

@philipkershaw7918 2 ай бұрын

Ok. What exactly is a sheeps?@@SoundSignals

@humblestever24 2 ай бұрын

Audio Phil is a respected industry figure living in the (higher) Hollywood Hills who does not appreciate irony. Nor does his white shoe law firm. Audio Phil does however acknowledge sheep and all creatures.

@BruceGrembowski 2 ай бұрын

I have a collection of vinyl albums or vinyl records, most of which are LPs. I could also say I have a collection of LPs and a few EPs. "Vinyl" is a category of raw materials; most vinyl records are made from PVC. "Vinyls" doesn't make any sense, unless you're an analog audiophile (analogophile? vinylphile?).

@PeeOrbital 2 ай бұрын

Vinyl is short for polyvinyl chloride, the stuff that these discs are made of. Since the term already contains the word poly, meaning many, adding an s to vinyl is redundant. EDT: 😉

@adamyelle4901 2 ай бұрын

Vinyls plural drives me nuts

@AudioMasterclass 2 ай бұрын

Vinyl plural drives you nut.

@hellomeatrobots 2 ай бұрын

"Vinyls" are what kids who don't own a record player call records.

@createdflat5034 2 ай бұрын

vinyl is an uncountable noun or a mass noun like beer or cheese or chocolate so it stays vinyl....i prefer LPs, singles 12'' or records

@jimhines5145 2 ай бұрын

Vinyl or Vinyls is not important. It's the sound that matters. Vinyl both excels and sucks, depending on the type of music,. For classical music, digital excels, Rock/Pop music on vinyl, well it depends.......