Vinyl is experiencing a boom like never before. So much so that it's possibly beginning to overtake the figures from it's prime, as this years vinyl sales have been at their highest in 18 years. Why?
Well, at the moment in time anything a bit vintage and retro is cool. Be that mom jeans, polaroid cameras, or 90's velvet crop tops. And with this surge of vintage styles, someone somewhere must have brought their old record player back to life.
With this, they would have rediscovered, what, in my opinion is a superior listening experience that you just don't get from an ipod nano. There's something about going to the store and picking up a record, and then taking it out of it's fresh sleeve with beautiful artwork on which makes you much more invested in the music you're listening to. And as well as that, the sound quality is actually better too, and the general image of a record spinning on your turntable is a cool one.
If you're one of those people who thinks that records are just for trendy people from shoreditch or old men who still use their turntable from their teens then you're wrong! I used to be cynical about them myself, thinking they were just accessories for the indie to try and make themselves more indie, but I couldn't have been more wrong! Once I tried vinyl I never looked back, and with more and more genres of music now being produced in vinyl, it really does have appeal for everyone!
A turntable I can recommend if you don't want to splash the cash and just see what records have to offer, while not compromising too much on sound quality, is the one I have which is the ION Pure LP (pictured below) for just £59.99, and it comes in 4 finishes!
Another I can recommend if you want to spend that bit more for high quality sound and a sleek look is the Rega RP1, which my dad has and is amazing! It's pictured below and is around £230 but in my opinion totally worth it.
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Emmy x
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