Archimago wrote: > Interesting commentary of the whole vinyl phenomenon from someone with > some background from the looks of it: > http://www.avclub.com/articles/has-the-vinyl-revival-gone-too-far,93610/ > > Interesting comment about sound quality: > "Owning a decent turntable does not turn your ears into trembling > flowers, unable to bear the bitmapped harshness of digital. It began to > dawn on meme, someone who had preached the sanctity of vinyl from my > record-store pulpit for so longthat I couldnt really tell the > difference between a 7-inch and an MP3. Or rather, I could tell there > was a slight difference, but it wasnt enough to justify the huge > portion of my income that I was spending on vinyl." > > He didn't say what this "slight difference" was - maybe the lack of > surface noise :-). However, mon dieu! Sacrilege! How dare this man > compare vinyl with MP3! > > IMO, good to see an article with a rational perspective.
Nice article, well thought out and well written. Thanks for the link. I've said this before and it bares repeating in this context. I have a very nice vinyl playback set up and around 2,000 LPs. Many times when I'm listening to vinyl I often wonder why so many people are so anti-vinyl because vinyl sounds very good. Sure there is surface noise to deal with, the ritual involved in playing (cleaning, clamping, etc.) and having to flip the damn thing every 20 minutes plus it is in no way portable but still vinyl can and does sound very nice. But like Mr. Heller I also have to admit that vinyl doesn't sound all that much better than digital, just slightly different. All told, streaming audio beats vinyl, CD, DVD-Audio and SACD playback because streaming audio can sound just as good as any of the others and is a whole lot more (orders of magnitude more) convenient. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98421
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