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What are you listening to?
Tova:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 17 Oct 2020, 22:41 ---Thing about vinyl.... it's better than digital, once.
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Debatable.
hedgie:
I have a turntable plugged directly into the computer, and yeah, the first thing I do is make a copy. I know that the medium degrades with use, but I do like having something physical and the cover art is so much nicer with vinyl than it is for CD.
Gyrre:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=dixIdOlhqOU
The second track (at 18:40) seems to have gotten into the attic of my mind and won't leave.
This whole performance has a subtle sense of foreboding about it. But that makes sense being that it uses samples from various endangered animals.
Honestly, if I ever DM a game where the party may end up in the Fey Wild, I'll be using this to set the mood.
[Skipping past the parts where Cosmo explains the sounds being used.]
EDIT: fixing url
N.N. Marf:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 16 Oct 2020, 22:02 ---Divided States of America
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I see your Laibach, and raise you Bad Religion
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 17 Oct 2020, 22:41 ---Thing about vinyl.... it's better than digital, once. Maybe twice or three times. Okay, being fair, modern turntables really run the needles very very light, and if you have good modern equipment maybe even a dozen times. But once, for sure.
If you buy a vinyl record, you've spent your money on those first few plays. If you fail to capture the first play in the highest-bitrate lossless audio codec you can, then what you're doing is paying the band tribute. You're making a small but extravagant sacrifice to show your loyalty, or making some kind of statement about the fleeting impermanence of all experiences, or something artistic like that.
But if you're like me, you want it (or a very close approximation to it) to listen to again and again. My first play is always a vinyl-to-digital conversion that results in files far too big for them to ever have sold on CD. Is the recording as good as the record's first play? No. Is it better than the record's tenth, or twelfth, or twentieth play? Yes. Is it better than the CD of the same album? Absolutely blowing-away better.
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Removing any quibbles individuals have about what 'sounds better', this is all pretty valid stuff but it also relies pretty specifically on peak fidelity being the only thing that matters, and I do not agree with that.
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