Sound Matters
Making sense of our vinyl passion in a wireless world
As some of you know, I’m a proudly disgraced audiophile.
I know my fair share of audio tech, but I can’t stand the snobbery surrounding the field.
One of the reasons I started this newsletter was to make vinyl accessible to ordinary people. People like you and me, who love music and records, but who also happen to have jobs, responsibilities, packed schedules, and just generally live insanely busy lives.
In today’s video, I weigh into the endless debate of whether bluetooth is incompatible with, or “less worthy of”, our beloved analogue format.
While at it, I also bring you a lesson or two from the legal industry, make my best attempt at a posh Victorian accent, blow kisses at a predominantly straight male audience, and suffer a minor domestic mishap because… well, you know how we roll: unscripted, impromptu, one-take-or-die, true Vinyl Room style!
(Please excuse the occasional strong language and my sports attire… I certainly don’t look very afternoonified here, but ideas for videos come when I least expect them, and I believe you deserve to see my most authentic self).
Links as promised:
The secret to great vinyl sound
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See you in the comments. Happy spinning!
This was all pretty educational to me! I didn't know that since 1989 vinyl has been created digitally. It makes sense but I never thought about it that way. I usually hook up my turntable and play it through my Mac speakers. I know, not the best sound quality at all. I need to explore using bluetooth. You are always inspiring Andres!
I started (or restarted) back in 2020 with one of the cheap suitcase record players that I got off amazon with a Covid stimulus check! LOL 😂 The speaker on that wasn’t great, but it worked for what money I had. I added a Bluetooth speaker, which definitely helped!! But, once I realized records were skipping on it, but not on a nicer turntable (at a local brewery), I got a cheap starter kit (turntable and speakers) from my local record store for $299 with my tax refund. The speakers it came with can either be connected directly to the turntable with wires, or can be used through Bluetooth. I connected them with the wires, but I’m imagining they would sound just as good with Bluetooth. I feel like it’s more the quality of the speakers? If I can figure out the Bluetooth I may have to experiment 😂
I’m super happy with my inexpensive set up!