Facebook Twitter Telegram Youtube Instagram FlipboardCheck all the information in PDF on your favorite deviceVinyl is living its second youth thanks to nostalgics and analog loversFrancisco Aragón repairing a record player./ JAVIER ALBIÑANA (MALAGA)MARÍA JOSÉ DÍAZ ALCALÁ MÁLAGA, 15 January, 2022 - 06:57hIn the age of smart speakers and streaming platforms like Spotify or YouTube, it is becoming more common than it seems to play an LP from the past.And it is that although it sounds like the past, more and more music lovers are trying to flee from digital formats where many nuances are lost, and are encouraged to consume the music of their favorite groups in such a physical and analog format. like vinyl.“When you listen to digital music, you lose a lot of things,” says Francisco Aragón, a music lover and faithful defender of analog music.As a result of his passion, Aragón has spent more than 30 years dedicating himself to domestic electronic repair in his small business in the capital of Malaga, although with a special interest in repairing turntables.He explains that he has had "no choice" but to work with digital electronics in order to survive.However, “now that the turntable has become fashionable again”, he admits to enjoying himself."I'm getting back to work on what I always liked," he adds.The electronic luthier assures that vinyl is living its second youth thanks, in part, to the nostalgic."There's a generation in their 50s and 60s who threw away their turntables because they broke, but they didn't throw away their vinyl records, and when they reach a certain age, they want to listen to them again and reminisce about their youth."In addition, Aragón points out that the revitalization of analog is also largely due to the “quality” offered by this format, “far superior to that of any streaming or digital medium”.He specifies that with quality he does not refer to brightness or definition, but to the “realism of the music.That you are listening to a song and the closest thing to a live performance comes to you, ”he exemplifies.Francisco Aragón, who defines himself as passionate about all kinds of music -except reggaeton, he points out- inherited his fondness for arranging these devices from his father.Although he did not practice the trade, Aragón says that he always saw him with a welder in his hand."He built a tube radio," he recalls.From handling an oscilloscope to knowing how to read a resistor are some of the functions that an electronic instrument repairman must know how to perform.Apart from training, Aragón confesses that the most important thing is “experience”.Since 1989, this 21st-century luthier has run his small establishment - the oldest in the neighborhood, according to Aragón - located at number 15 of the Matadero corridor.Blanca Marín, a client of Francisco Aragón, told this newspaper that there has always been a record player in her house.Some time ago his father was damaged and his Christmas gift was to fix it, she explained.Although she assured that it was the first time she had visited the Aragón store, she had given him a lot of confidence.You have to be registered to be able to write comments.Content offered by Caja Rural Granada© JolyDigital |Rioja 13, Mezzanine.41001 Seville