All the benefits of digital are worthless if it doesn't sound as good as the LP version, the problem is most people have no clue how good the LP version really is/was, and THINK the CD digital is as good as it gets when often its just mediocre. You might be able to "live with" mediocre if you have never heard the originals, but if you have, you wanna take the CD and toss it in the garbage.
Regarding hearing, if you can tell the difference between a stereo and a real band live in front of you, and nearly everyone can, even with "poor" hearing, there is still room for improvement in your recordings and your playback system. The thing not to forget is with LPs you still need a good phono rig and good playback rig. On cheapo gear the difference between CD and phono disappears and everything sounds same/ bad/phony. -- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) Join the CD PLAYER & DISC Discussions : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdsound/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Francis Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 3:30 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Vinyl vs. Digital One of the minor benefits of deteriorating hearing is that I don't feel tempted to go back to vinyl - I couldn't hear the difference. In any case, vinyl is like using film; a little dust can all too easily negate any benefits. And digital is so much more convenient; I'm about to hop on planes for ten hours of flight time; an MP3 player is easy to slip into a pocket, and you can get an awful lot of audio into 8GB of memory (even without extra SD cards). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
