Vinyl

I have a turntable that can play 331/3 RPM vinyl albums. It can also play 45s and 78s.  As my parents aged, they "purged" a lot of their things, and that included their records.  My siblings were offered their choices, but I ended up with everything else.  One of my sisters did not get the Peter and Gordon albums she would have liked, so I sent those to her.  But I have the rest.

The turntable I have is connected to a recorder, and I have recorded some to CD.  But, this is a slow process, and I have not been very diligent about doing it.

I was at Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ tonight, and I noticed a display:  They were selling vinyl albums, including some remastered albums (Beatles, Rolling Stones.)  They were also selling Crosley http://www.rockinrecordplayers.com/ turntables. My turntable is a more elaborate one than they were selling, and it is a Crosley.

I am told that vinyl has a richer, more mellow sound than digital.  I guess I am tone deaf, because I cannot tell.  And all of the records I own are scratchy, and the scratchy transfers when I record to CD.