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The problem with vinyl is it degrades every time you play it and you have to be very careful handling it so you don't get fingerprints on it.
by woofyman 10y ago
The problem with vinyl is it degrades every time you play it and you have to be very careful handling it so you don't get fingerprints on it.
- jedimastert 10y agocassettes degrade as well
- AgentME 10y agoSomeone should make a media player that adds some noise to your MP3 files every time you play them. Or maybe it just lossily re-encodes it at the same bit rate.
- XorNot 10y agoIt's the hiss and scratch as you put vinyl onto play that does it. There's an anticipation associated with that sound, particularly the way the noise stabilizes as the needle moves into the recorded part of the track and quietens. To me it's always been very similar to the experience of when a live orchestra is about to play and the audience quietens.
- dTal 10y agoProduct idea: a vinyl record player with a built-in A/D converter, hard drive and label recognition. The first time you play a new record it records it. The second time you play it you hear the recording, and the player makes a show of spinning the record and moving the needle (without actually touching it). All the tactile pleasure of vinyl, none of the degradation. The needle would last longer too. If the hard drive runs out of space it can just drop stuff out of cache. Would also be fun to watch unsuspecting vinyl nerds gush over "superior analog sound".
- lb1lf 10y ago>Would also be fun to watch unsuspecting vinyl nerds gush over "superior analog sound". -When in university, I built myself a DAC (nothing fancy - a quad of PCM1704's and a very minor revision to the reference design) Anyway, I put a couple of tubes on top, connecting only the filament voltage. Lots of oohing and aahing as to how 'organic' and 'analog' it sounded.