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Speaker 1: It seems that vinyl revival is real. A lot of

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Speaker 1: noises past couple of years, as I'm sure you're aware

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Speaker 1: around vinyl records, who's buying them? The fact they've never

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Speaker 1: died out now Gordon Stevenson runs NAPY is just for

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Speaker 1: the record business apparently is booming and Gordon's with it's mate.

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Speaker 1: How are you?

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Speaker 2: Oh'm extremely well, thank you?

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Speaker 1: Good? Are you online or retail or both? We both okay?

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Speaker 1: And so how do you sell most of them? Is

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Speaker 1: it all online or people come in and have a

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Speaker 1: little flick through?

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Speaker 2: Probably the majority is online, but we do a regional

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Speaker 2: around and we've actually got a store around garage at home,

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Speaker 2: so it works quite nicely. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: And how many in the garage?

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Speaker 2: Well, how about for thirty forty thou?

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Speaker 1: Do they warp in the sun? Because mine warped. I

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Speaker 1: used to have a vinyl collection and it just the

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Speaker 1: whole thing warped, and I was heartbroken.

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Speaker 2: I can understand that because they're very difficult to direct

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Speaker 2: to a perfecture, they are warp But yes they do

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Speaker 2: if we keep them out of the sun.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. What do you pay for a vinyl album

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Speaker 1: these days? Roughly?

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Speaker 2: That varies because the records aren't just records. There's various

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Speaker 2: quality of records. We start at realistically about fifty dollars

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Speaker 2: and go through about four hundred.

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Speaker 1: See that's interesting, isn't because fifty is more than the CD,

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Speaker 1: and it's certainly more expensive than streaming.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and it sounds considerably better too.

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Speaker 1: Ah, so there's my great fascination, Gordon. When the CD

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Speaker 1: came along, as you'll well remember, the fixation was, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's so good that sound, and so we became fixated

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Speaker 1: with the quality of the sound. And yet when streaming

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Speaker 1: came along, no one seems to care about that anymore.

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Speaker 1: And the sound is crap.

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Speaker 2: Oh grin Tyley, you know you can, you can losing

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Speaker 2: up to forty percent of the music. I can't see

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Speaker 2: the logic of that at all.

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Speaker 1: But then again, the vinyl sound is different to a CD,

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Speaker 1: and could you argue not quite as good or would

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Speaker 1: we get into faciity.

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Speaker 2: I think fistic caps are coming up very quickly. No,

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Speaker 2: vinyl sounds considerably better. Because digital scenario, we can't listen

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Speaker 2: to a digital signal. It's got to be converted from

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Speaker 2: analog where we listen to it, then converted to digital

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Speaker 2: and then come back to analog so we can hear it.

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Speaker 2: All those steps to degrade the music.

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Speaker 1: Do you see an increasing variety of artists in vinyl nowadays?

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Speaker 1: Is that growing as well?

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Speaker 2: Dramatically good? I mean, to be honest, there's very few

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Speaker 2: artists that aren't on vinyl. I mean, for example, yesterday

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Speaker 2: or today we're releasing Pat Freddy's dropped new album. But

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Speaker 2: then the other interest thing, of course, is on the

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Speaker 2: other end of the scale. We've got The Animals with

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Speaker 2: the Animals, which is celebrating the sixtieth anniversary has just

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Speaker 2: been released on yellow vinyl.

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Speaker 1: No way, And of course you need a turntable, yes,

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Speaker 1: we do. Can you get turntables easily, very easily? Oh,

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Speaker 1: last time I looked at it was sort of they

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Speaker 1: had one or two and they were a bit cool

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Speaker 1: but trendy, and I thought quite expensive.

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Speaker 2: Well realistically, I mean I was in a Harvey Normand

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Speaker 2: yesterday and I was totally devastated because they had two

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Speaker 2: absolutely rubbish turntables. You go to a specialist. There's lots

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Speaker 2: and lots of good quality products around and some of

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Speaker 2: them are reasonable. I think you canpend a lot of

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Speaker 2: money on the turntable as same as you can spend

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Speaker 2: a lot of money on a CD player.

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Speaker 1: I guess, So what do you pay for a turntable? Roughly?

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Speaker 2: Oh, realistically you get have half decent about one thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars upwards. There's not a lot of money today, there's

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Oh god, but there you go, Gordon. You tell jeez,

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Speaker 1: I thought we're in the cost of living crisis. But

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Speaker 1: my apologies, it's not unlike Gordon seas and Gordon must

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Speaker 1: be right. Paying fifty backs for a year records, fifty

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Speaker 1: record a thousand for your turntable. Then you need another record.

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Speaker 1: Spotify subscriptions starting to sound pretty damn reasonable. Then you

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Speaker 1: need two records and that's one hundred dollars, and after

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Speaker 1: a while you get sick of that. You need three records.

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Speaker 1: But you can't beat the vin And that part is true.

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