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Sony said this week it will begin pressing vinyl records again, ending an almost three-decade hiatus. A dramatic increase in demand for vinyl music in recent years prompted the move, the company said.
After a 28-year hiatus, Sony announced this week that it plans to open a new facility in Japan dedicated to pressing vinyl records. It's a back-to-the-future announcement at a time when the true digital music revolution, downloaded and streaming via always-on Internet connectivity, has quickly grown to dominate listening habits. According to Japan's recording industry association, the country produced nearly 200 million records per year in the mid-1970s. That's unlikely to return. But while many of us have been content to wirelessly download our music, a surprising number of people are going to the store, or Amazon.com, let's be honest, and purchasing a vinyl record, sleeve and all.

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To tell you the truth, I am absolutely excited about this, I love vinyl records and I wish I had never sold my collection(that damn Motley Crue Theater of Pain is still growing in price and mine was autographed).

[zorrophreak]

Pretty excited with this, I've been in loved with vinyl but now I don't have anything to do it with, one day.

To tell you the truth, I am absolutely excited about this, I love vinyl records and I wish I had never sold my collection(that damn Motley Crue Theater of Pain is still growing in price and mine was autographed).

Rip.

[mothered]

This Is awesome news.

I grew up with vinyl records and still have a lot stashed away. Now everyone needs to hit eBay and purchase the good old record player/turntable.

[BurritoBeans]

Awesome.

I love collecting records - I grew up listening to records that used to be my dads, they sound nice, and they're just a really fun format - and I know there's a nice community for them as we sell a lot of records at work so that's cool to see that Sony is going to do discs again.

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This Is awesome news.

I grew up with vinyl records and still have a lot stashed away. Now everyone needs to hit eBay and purchase the good old record player/turntable.

Walmart is ready to supply the player if you got the records https://www.walmart.com/c/kp/record-turntables

[Oni]

I know a couple people that collect vinyls, they'll be happy.

[mothered]

Walmart is ready to supply the player if you got the records https://www.walmart.com/c/kp/record-turntables

Thanks for that.

I don't have a Walmart In my locality, but there Is an equivalent.

[BurritoBeans]

Walmart is ready to supply the player if you got the records https://www.walmart.com/c/kp/record-turntables

Thanks for that.

I don't have a Walmart In my locality, but there Is an equivalent.

Just a warning from experience at home/with the cheaper tables we sell at work like the Crosley Cruisers that you can find in most big-box stores (which is what I'm assuming you'd be able to find if you have a wal-mart equivalent or got something from the online wal-mart store) that if you want a turntable that's going to not wear your records quick, is operating at the right speed, is reliable, and sounds nice on a set of speakers then the Crosley/Victrola/Jensen options like what are sold at a Wal-Mart/Target/Aldi/whatever aren't very good.

They're cheap to buy, and there's good reason - they use very cheap,- just barely sapphire-tipped - styli on a 50s-style cartridge and tonearm, and are known to either track a bit too hard and sound fine until the record wears out and you have to put coins on top, track too light and require pennies on top which in turn makes them track too hard, and sound bad compared to a table which cost $40 more. One feature that people find cool - the 78RPM mode - works if you're interested in 78s, but the stylus is a bit too thin for 78s so there's usually a good bit of jumping. They're made of fairly cheap parts, some of them are all very cheap plastic that could break if you touched the wrong thing at the wrong time. Finally, the in-built speakers aren't very good either, generally sounding about the same as a cheap and well-used Type I tape with no noise reduction on a low-end cassette deck at best. The cheaper-end tables do work if you just want something to play the records, but if you care about said records then by all means find something with at least a bit of quality behind it that won't run the risk of ruining your album or going up in smoke.

If you want a modern option, it may be more of the $100+ range but even the lower-end Audio-Technica players like the AT-LP60 will give you better quality (Mind you the LP60 doesn't have anti-skate controls or any of that, you need to step up to the AT-LP120 for that) and some even have a USB output option if you don't have a hi-fi setup. If all else fails and you do have a hi-fi setup or at least a receiver/amp then going for an older record player from a good brand like Yamaha, Pioneer, Technics, etc. that was known to be good and pairing it with a decent cartridge on can be a great option - I've been using a Yamaha P-300 at home and two Technics SL-1200s with the band for main turntables, and there's really good reasons that the Yamaha sounds better than any Crosley will and the Technics is sought out by DJs who still spin records.

It's cool to see the format doing so well nowadays but man I hate it when I see someone buy and use one of these as their main turntable as all they're doing is ruining their records - the only reason these cheap things exist is to leech on the hipster market, and you really get what you pay for in their case.

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@BurritoBeans, you've provided some very beneficial material.

I had no Idea on the different types and quality of turntables.
Much appreciate your In depth feedback.