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Doesn't matter what you play a vinyl on, vinyls are just going to be worse than CDs, despite what proponents tell you. When you extract the audio by literally
by Aelius 8y ago
Doesn't matter what you play a vinyl on, vinyls are just going to be worse than CDs, despite what proponents tell you.
When you extract the audio by literally scraping a piece of metal across the surface- every time you play a vinyl, you degrade it. The "warm" quality of the audio proponents talk about is just noise introduced by the degrading material.
When CDs were new, many of them were mastered poorly. So there is a very specific few years where you want the vinyl instead of the CD. That's the most you can say for vinyl.
/tangent
- sosborn 8y ago> vinyls are just going to be worse than CDs, despite what proponents tell you. In terms of pure measurements, absolutely. In terms of experience? Well, it really depends on the person (and I am someone who much prefers modern digital music formats over analog).
- setpatchaddress 8y agoI fully agree with the argument that digital can sound better than vinyl when properly mastered, but nothing you say here is correct. You’re not scraping metal across the surface unless you’re using a phonograph with steel needles to play 78’s, which are not “vinyl”, and you hit the arm such that it goes perpendicular to the grooves, which is not a good idea, because it will make an unpleasant sound and badly damage the surface. Digital material is still often mastered poorly. Some older material is still not properly mastered, despite multiple “remastering” releases.