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What's Up With Vinyl?
McTaggart:
Playing vinyl is to playing mp3s as making leaf tea in a nice round, small pot is to throwing a teabag in a cup. The ritual is really the important part for me. The media is nicer too, vinyl and leaves are just prettier. The other bonus is that records double as posters.
Vinyl is just nice, and I don't really care about your reason.
snowball:
--- Quote from: PECOAE on 03 Feb 2008, 17:51 ---Does vinyl really sound better?
I dunno, I've always thought of vinyl as the crackly, old, easily scratched records of lore.
--- End quote ---
common misconception due to the fact most people treated their records like shit (non-music loving friends scratched CD's anyone?)
if cared for IE carbon fiber brush, stylus cleaner, and wet record cleaner fluid or cleaning machine.
if its clean and not damaged vinyl will not crackle or pop.
a local Hi-Fi shop should be more than happy to do a demo for you, many Hi-Fi shops are still turntables as their main source. You can make the decision if it sounds better yourself.
doing an A/B test with the same record and CD is alot of fun.
EDIT: a good shop should have a library of Vinyl and CD's for people to walk in and listen to.
PECOAE:
Apparently, digital recordings are inferior by definition. My dad showed me a diagram about it.
It's approximated and sampled to digital from analog and back.
Jackie Blue:
Yes, of course digital vs. analog is provably different and there is some "loss" in a digital format but people who claim to be able to hear some kind of massive difference are, I think, deluding themselves.
Either that or a decade of playing in loud rock bands has dulled me to the finer nuances. Still, I really don't think the sound difference is that big if you have a good stereo, especially since CD technology has come a long way.
michaelicious:
I buy old used vinyl records because I like the way they smell.
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