SoundStage Direct Explains the Appeal of LP Records

Online, October 21, 2010 (Newswire.com) - What's in a vinyl record that a CD doesn't have? Even with the popularity of digital music nowadays, more and more people are still looking for vinyl album releases and reissues. SoundStage Direct talks about reasons behind the appeal of vintage LP records.

"Compact discs may hold a lot of digital information and can be easily stored and moved, but they are not worth preserving because they don't grow with the user as an LP record does. When you listen to a vintage album, its songs will take you decades back to distant places. You just get deeply absorbed by the music and the sheer beauty of the disc itself," explains Seth Frank of SoundStage Direct.

New York painter Munro Galloway, who works evenings as a DJ (under the pseudonym Blueski), shares a creed with many of his peers: "If you're serious about playing music, you've got to have vinyl. It lets you get closer to the texture of the experience, to form a physical relationship with the object itself."

There's magic and the mystery inside the precious, fragile, narrows grooves of the lustrous black vinyl. And when you play it on the stereo unit, the turntable, spindle, arm, and needle possess an enigmatic charm that the CD player don't have. There's no wonder why record purists, vinyl album collectors, audiophiles and new generation of music lovers continue to scour record stores, garage sales, bazaars to find the next valuable LP to add to their growing collection.

Nothing can replace the flip-flip-flip of going through record bins and pulling out treasures. Well, in some cases, scanning catalogs of vinyl records on the Internet," added Frank.