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Depth of sound, long term storage, ease of navigation, there are lots of reasons people prefer vinyl that aren't based in nostalgia.
by nanna 4y ago
Depth of sound, long term storage, ease of navigation, there are lots of reasons people prefer vinyl that aren't based in nostalgia.
- foobarbecue 4y agoDepth? You mean like a large range in available amplitudes (loud vs soft)?
- alar44 4y agoProbably, and they're wrong.
- BitwiseFool 4y agoNo DRM and the fact that you actually own it is a big plus.
- tinus_hn 4y agoLike a CD?
- foobarbecue 4y agoOr an mp3, ogg, wav, flac
- jermaustin1 4y agoWhat do you mean by depth of sound? A vinyl record has a dynamic range of around 70db, where as a CD has a dynamic range of up to 144db, though in practice it is usually only 90-96db. Either way you shake that stick though, digital audio (uncompressed) has a much deeper sound. Even in the recording studio back in the days of vinyl pressings all ran on studio grade magnetic tape with a higher dynamic range (not by much, albeit), but the sound that the artist was going for was typically hindered by analog recording media in a way that isn't true today.
- jakedata 4y agoOften vinyl records are much more carefully mastered when compared to their CD counterparts. Many of us are survivors of the loudness wars. https://www.yoursoundmatters.com/vinyl-vs-cd-in-the-loudness-war/ https://www.yoursoundmatters.com/vinyl-vs-cd-in-the-loudness...
- Pet_Ant 4y agoUgh, this frustrates me. You are just saying that the _mix_ put on vinyl is better than the mix put on CD. That same mix put on CD would be even better due to higher fidelity of the format. Vinyl is a strictly worse format... unfortunately it's also an easier source of better mixes.
- Our_Benefactors 4y agoNot a vinyl purist, but the argument is that the same mix sounds different pressed into vinyl vs burned to disc because they reproduce the frequencies differently when read. You would have to engineer the CD mix differently to match the sound of the vinyl.
- foobarbecue 4y agoI mean... So you can't record high frequencies on vinyl... if you WANTED the CD to sound like vinyl you could intentionally alias the high frequencies. But why would you want to do that? It's not really a case of them "producing different frequencies when read." It's that CDs are capable of recording and reproducing a broader range of frequencies than vinyl.
- alar44 4y agoThat's backwards. You mix, and then master to your format. When you master to vinyl, you inherently lose data because the needle will pop off the track if it's too loud or there's too much bass. You literally don't have to do anything like that when you master for digital. You just make it sound good and you're done.
- rideontime 4y agoHope you aren't playing those records on un-conditioned cables.
- alar44 4y agoFuck no. Vinyl is inferior to modern digital media in every single measurable way. I cannot believe this myth won't fucking die! You literally have to roll off the low end in a vinyl master so the needle doesn't pop off the track ffs. Not to mention the vinyl literally wears down every time you play the record.
- silvestrov 4y agoLPs are really bad at "long term storage". You can read them without damaging them slightly. You can't make a perfect copy, so when the vinyl detoriates, you will not be able to "make a fresh copy". CDs can be copied perfectly and can be moved to superior tech, e.g. SSD. You can continue copying a digital version for the next 1000 years without any loss.