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What's Up With Vinyl?
snowball:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 03 Feb 2008, 18:13 ---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.
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cd players have come a long way, but CD technology is still the same 16bit red book setup as always. it would be nice if the switch to SACD had worked... maybe a new Blue ray music format. I can dream i guess. something 24 or 32bit. 5.1 and 2 channel stored on the same disk...
EDIT: in that same pattern new turntables are worlds apart from things made in the 60's-80's. The new SME tonearms are brilliant and far better than their old ones. My friends VPI scoutmaster is way better than any of my old decks.
Inlander:
Another "con" for M.P.3 players: they're set up for earphone or headphone listening. Sure, you can get bits and pieces to add to them so that you can hook them up to a sound system with speakers, but you have to spend extra money for that and it can be annoying to have to set up and it's just not as easy as taking a C.D. or a vinyl record out of its case and slipping it into the player. This is an important point because some music just flat-out sounds better when heard in the open air through speakers, rather than in a closed-off environment through headphones straight into your ear.
snowball:
--- Quote from: Inlander on 03 Feb 2008, 18:37 ---Another "con" for M.P.3 players: they're set up for earphone or headphone listening. Sure, you can get bits and pieces to add to them so that you can hook them up to a sound system with speakers, but you have to spend extra money for that and it can be annoying to have to set up and it's just not as easy as taking a C.D. or a vinyl record out of its case and slipping it into the player. This is an important point because some music just flat-out sounds better when heard in the open air through speakers, rather than in a closed-off environment through headphones straight into your ear.
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hmm... a con for MP3 players. but a dedicated music server is the easiest way to pick songs in the world.
build a music server out of a computer or buy something like
http://www.slimdevices.com/ (wireless, can use pandora and internet radio)
or if you have money to blow
http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/audiovideo/1330/qsonix-q100-music-server.html
http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/sooloos-to-store-your-lossless-tunes/
i use my old laptop with http://www.fooblog2000.com/ as the user interface
then output is into a USB to SPDIF converter box, then to my modded zhaolu DAC (sounds good for the cost)
RallyMonkey:
Would vinyl still have superior quality if the music was digitally recorded?
snowball:
--- Quote from: RallyMonkey on 03 Feb 2008, 18:48 ---Would vinyl still have superior quality if the music was digitally recorded?
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i don't know what the recording setup for the albums i listen to is.
but because of the limitations of the red book CD standard, i going to say in general yes.
we really do need higher quality digital media, its been far too many years. Some sort of 24bit 192khz DTS download format would rock.
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