Vinyl VS. CD...the winner needs a needle!

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Sunday, May 24, 2009 17:43
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BEATLESFAN

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 10:34 AM

It's kind of a trade-off. In pristine condition vinyl sounds worlds better than digital. BUT digital is a million times easier to maintain. It's one reason I love indie bands that offer their albums on vinyl with a free digital download included.

KWICKO

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:52 AM

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I really miss the nice big booklets in the albums, with words and pictures,...compare that to the tiny 3x3 booklet.

Yeah, I *DO* miss album cover art...

Mike

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day...
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

FLATTOP

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:54 AM

IIRC part of the problem 'back in the day' was the distributors making the vinyl albums as thin and cheap as they could, hoping to make their money in sales volume, and towards the end there, the quality was getting to be pretty bad and the records even harder to take care of.
Now, HiFi aficionados, have carved out a niche for themselves, and the few places that still make records are making them well, and buying excellent systems to play the records with.
Teens and folk that are living a "highly mobile" lifestyle are much better off with digital media for its reduced size, durability and portability. More settled people may indeed enjoy the enhanced sound quality (our ears are analog devices, just like the records are) available on good vinyl. If you can find the music you want, recorded in an analog studio...

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AURAPTOR

Friday, May 22, 2009 2:16 AM

One reason I kept all my good LPs.

And speaking of 'Album art', I still have my BEATLES Magical Mystery Tour LP, which came complete w/ a pull out photo mag of the Fab 4.

CALHOUN

Friday, May 22, 2009 5:08 AM

I cant wait for the 10 stacker Phonograph to come out for my automobile!

2BY2GINGERBLUE

Friday, May 22, 2009 9:08 AM

Vinyl, Oh how I long for the days of Real DJ's!!!!!!

BORIS

Sunday, May 24, 2009 3:29 AM

I still play my old Vinyl records on my well maintained 1970's Sanyo portable record player. they sound better to me than Digital stuff or CD's....then again that could be the nostalgia effect.

KWICKO

Sunday, May 24, 2009 3:37 AM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
One reason I kept all my good LPs.

And speaking of 'Album art', I still have my BEATLES Magical Mystery Tour LP, which came complete w/ a pull out photo mag of the Fab 4.

Yup, I've still got all my old vinyl - well over a thousand albums. Haven't heard any of them in over 20 years... I'm thinking about picking up one of the little USB turntables and software to rip the vinyl to MP3.

Mike

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day...
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

BIGRICHARD

Sunday, May 24, 2009 7:22 AM

Well. I'm only 20...so I pretty much missed all this stuff, and only have now what my parents have managed to hang on to for all these years (which isn't much, due to many reasons, along with the fact that when they came to Australia, they didn't have room to bring their whole record collection.)

But I'll tell you one thing.

Disraeli Gears.
The sound, the cover art, everything about that LP is brilliant.

RALLEM

Sunday, May 24, 2009 10:07 AM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
My Wife just got a wrecka playah for Mothers Day, and I swear, the notes I hear coming out of it beat the piss outta CD's...I'm not kidding.
Anyone else notice that?

The laughing Chrisisall

The reason for this is that record players are analog and they follow the entire sound wave while cd players are digital and only hit certain parts of the sound wave along the sound wave so their sound tends to lack the full range of the original. On the other hand, while a record player will give amazing sound on the first play, its own quality will degrade quickly due to the affects the needle has on the record, and cds will sound pretty much as they did new for the life of the cd.

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