Comment by gwbas1c

4 days ago

An easy way to do this without needing to build a thing is to get into vinyl.

One of the nice things about vinyl is that historians will have an easier time figuring out what's on it than many of our digital formats.

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derriz  4 days ago

What's easy about vinyl? If you want a kid to have a physical copies of music, then CDs generally cost between a third and a tenth the price of the vinyl equivalent and are far more "kid friendly" - not just the CDs themselves but the playback equipment. Unless you want to have them listen on one of those novelty mass produced plastic turntables that sound absolutely terrible, a good stylus on a decent turntable is just a kid's innocent bump away from destruction.

  • gwbas1c  1 day ago

    Because you can see a lot of the moving parts and get involved in the actual reproduction of the sound by playing with the stylus, touching the record, slowing it down, speeding it up...

    Anyway, used vinyl is a lot more fun, and cheaper. Most of my collection was in the $2-4 range in the early 2000s.

UtopiaPunk  4 days ago

We have a record player and some vinyl records in the house. My three-year-old is starting to like them. Today, he even was holding the record carefully by the sides. Made me such a proud dad, haha.

My 1-year-old, however is pretty monstrous to the records. We have some little kid vinyl that I got for cheap off a friend, and we placed those within his reach. He thinks they're interesting, but grabs the record or sleeve and bends them a lot. It's whatever, it's fine. But I did make it a point recently to move my favorite records to another room for the time being :)