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Vinyl is imperfect, heavy, fragile, and difficult to maintain. The sound is objectively less precise than digital, and playback comes with surface noise, pops,
by futurecat 3y ago
Vinyl is imperfect, heavy, fragile, and difficult to maintain.
The sound is objectively less precise than digital, and playback comes with surface noise, pops, and all.
Choosing a cartridge affects the quality of the sound so much that it can be an expensive part of the setup (and needles need to be regularly changed!).
Vinyl has a lot of drawbacks but vinyl is offline, private, and a cherished possession. The lack of dynamic is actually what I love about it.
I have 2 20years old record players (Technics MK2), a mixer (Rane TTM56) and Taruya Cartridges.
I love to play vinyls selections with very little mixing technique. I record each little session, and broadcast them on my very own little icecast server.
The Vinyl culture is a great one. We don’t always need what is the most convenient or the most precise. We just need what feels good to us.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoI laugh at the fragile part. What's fragile are turn of the 20th century Soviet 78's and wax records. The only things that will fuck up regular records are: sitting on them, leaving them in a hot car, or pilling them up outside of sleeves. If you're not a careless slob, regular records are pretty damn forgiving.
- futurecat 3y agoFragile might not be the right word. But you need to clean them and care for them.
- worrycue 3y ago> vinyl is offline, private, and a cherished possession But so are CDs without any of the drawbacks.
- dymk 3y agoVinyl records are a way to display the album art in a large-ish format. CDs are tiny and not as good for displaying.
- potamic 3y agoWonder why CDs never came with ginormous jackets
- gweinberg 3y agoThey did. When CDs first came out, they were in these ridiculous long boxes so they would fit in with vinyl lps.
- rufus_foreman 3y agoIt also made them harder to shoplift.
- sjm 3y agoOne thing all these comments bringing up "so are CDs" miss is the open physicality of vinyl. The above poster is talking about mixing vinyl records, which with CDs all becomes digital. With vinyl, you're physically placing a needle on top of a section of the disc, changing the physical speed of the rotations, etc.