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There are some technologies that are just completely dominated by others. Encoding audio on vinyl seems to be one them. From a pure sound perspective its hard t
by college_physics 4y ago
There are some technologies that are just completely dominated by others. Encoding audio on vinyl seems to be one them. From a pure sound perspective its hard to think why one would want to use a sub-par option (ready to stand corrected if true audiophiles have an argument besides nostalgia / retro feeling = valuing the scratches and jumps of the needle).
BUT. Vinyl is not just the audio experience. Its the tangible artifact: the artwork, supporting information, a physical place in a music library etc. For a period CD's/DVD's provided a limited emulation of those attributes but even those are now deprecated. An mp3 or even worse, a stream is not quite the same, is it.
Maybe what we "need" is a reincarnation of a some sort of LaserDisc [0], with the exactly the same form factor as vinyl but dramatically larger storage (including e.g. videos from band performances or other audiovisual material)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc
- hugg 4y agoOne major thing for me as well is that Vinyl doesn't really degrade the same way as a CD or LaserDisc eventually will
- college_physics 4y agoit does degrade when played a lot, though I would imagine new materials could prolong expected life. but indeed as storage its rather more robust / purely "mechanical"
- empyrrhicist 4y agoI listen to a lot of digital music, and also vinyl records. Using laserdiscs sounds like less fun than both IMHO.