Post #915151
2026-04-01 19:33 UTC
Replies (29)
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@VE3RWJ@mastodon.radio 2026-04-01 19:34
@KydiaMusic Vinyl reader? :) I'm not surprised though. I've seen articles claiming 40% of the people buying vinyl don't own a turntable, and some articles say it's closer to 50%.
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@GGMcBG@mstdn.plus 2026-04-01 19:36
@KydiaMusic *flabberhoozled by the dumbfuckery* Gonna lose a $50 LP the first time they decide to 'skip' a song.
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@mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 19:41
@KydiaMusic Gatta start somewhere.
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@sindarina@ngmx.com 2026-04-01 21:13
@KydiaMusic Makes perfect sense if you do not speak the language of the olds, really 😂
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@em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 21:16
@KydiaMusic 🤣 wow I feel incredibly old now too 😹 my face would do the exact same thing 🫠
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@Thad@brontosin.space 2026-04-01 21:18
@KydiaMusic The other day I saw a headline use the word "stream" to describe a show airing on broadcast TV.
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@amazing_ces@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 21:25
@KydiaMusic My nephew has his Dad’s turntable but had zero clue how to work it correctly, fix the needle or clean the record to reduce static noise. My husband and I were more than happy to educate and even though neither of had used a record in sometime it was like riding a bike. Also fun to share the experience with someone who’s genuinely into music played on vinyl.
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@stevegis_ssg@mas.to 2026-04-01 21:51
@KydiaMusic At a party at our house once, a friend's daughter remarked to him how cool it was that our stereo had a thing on top that made it look like it was playing a vinyl record, and he blew her mind by explaining to her that in fact it was playing a vinyl record and that's where the music they were hearing was coming from.
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@nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social 2026-04-01 22:03
@KydiaMusic I think I felt my face slide off. 🤣
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@corbden@defcon.social 2026-04-01 22:30
@KydiaMusic @sindarina *needle scratch* (Funny story, but the post just below this one said *needle scratch*)
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@JamesWNeal@mstdn.social 2026-04-01 23:00
@KydiaMusic Issa Vinyl Reader where a woman in a turban gazes into the grooves of your disc, puts her hand to her forehead, then tells you what mood she feels as she reads the groove? Seriously though, I know there are kids who buy records just to display them, never get a "reader." Then there are those who like the pops and ticks and scratches because somebody told them that's the coveted old-school, vinyl sound.
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@deewani@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 23:03
@KydiaMusic I’ve heard them called “the big black CDs my dad had” but this was. 10 years ago….
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@SordidAmok@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 23:25
@KydiaMusic I bought a used turntable today for $25. I'm going to use it to listen to polka albums.
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@MrGamy@toot.kif.rocks 2026-04-01 23:25
@KydiaMusic well - maybe a vinyl "recorder"? 😂 https://nadelectronics.com/products/pp-4-digital-phono-usb-preamplifier
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@gotofritz@hachyderm.io 2026-04-02 00:05
@KydiaMusic Vinyl? I had to explain to a youngster what a DVD is...
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@ScriptFanix@maly.io 2026-04-02 00:09
@KydiaMusic I bought cassettes and have no cassette player. 🤷 You get the music some other way, and buy the physical medium to support the artist and have some kind of "token".
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@the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca 2026-04-02 02:13
@KydiaMusic Oh you mean an RRR - Revolving Recording Reader
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@dogiedog64@app.wafrn.net 2026-04-02 02:39
@KydiaMusic@mastodon.social Did you tell them how cheap record players are? They're only like $100-200 these days.
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@caitp@mstdn.social 2026-04-02 04:28
@KydiaMusic @synkr3tyk aren't they super cheap these days? those el cheapo 7" ones on amazon that only play 45s and only output through a builtin speaker and bluetooth, in order to protect people from the allure of golden cables
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@Hyperlynx@aus.social 2026-04-02 09:35
@KydiaMusic my mum's "vinyl reader" apparently has a USB port, which strikes me as very anachronistic. Apparently it's for recording.
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@Rubelicious@mastodon.ie 2026-04-02 09:39
@KydiaMusic total tangent, but that ALT text, is it bait? That's Private Ryan, not Benjamin Burton, isn't it? Sorry to kinda call you out, I'm just making sure I haven't skipped into an alternative timeline
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@mamapanda@zirk.us 2026-04-02 10:42
@KydiaMusic They don't have the LP machine I have the LP machine I still used I conected to my Sony sound system
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@Mark_Harbinger@mastodon.social 2026-04-02 18:53
@KydiaMusic Ouch. ...just Ouch.
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@notthatdelta@furry.engineer 2026-04-02 20:04
@KydiaMusic "vinyl reader" this has me *howling* Like it makes sense if you extrapolate backward (card reader) so they at least made an attempt but oh wow.
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@bouriquet@mastodon.social 2026-04-02 20:27
@KydiaMusic Astound them by using a paper cone with a pin in it to play old cheap vinyl spun around on a crude turntable. No codecs, decompression or other software needed. Pure analog sound (more or less and definitely less than what is impressed on the groove). When the apocalypse comes it will be considered a novel form of entertainment. Everything with a chip will be useless plastic and silicon.
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@HannahClover@mastodon.social 2026-04-02 20:42
@KydiaMusic I wonder if some people are buying them simply to function as a collectible and with no intention of actually playing them? Records look cool by themselves.
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@gw6kwm@toot.wales 2026-04-03 08:00
@KydiaMusic Humans are doomed.
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@Old_IT_geek@techhub.social 2026-04-05 07:28
@KydiaMusic I still love it when they say “play the tape” and hold up a iphone or press a button on their laptop.
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@pthane@toot.wales 2026-04-05 09:23
@KydiaMusic Much as I love modern tech I do sometimes think back to the old days when tech was mostly mechanical and easy to understand. Sometime in the '60s I made a record player (gramophone) from Meccano using a needle from my mother's sewing box to 'read' the vinyl.