Roxbrough
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Well it isn't the first time I've heard the argument about vinyl vs CD / digital. I have had a number of people lecture me on the benefits of vinyl and quite honestly I'm not on the side of a nostalgic clinging to the past. Logically I entirely fail to see how the imperfections of a vinyl recording can be better than the purity of digital especially if you also take the improvements in recording equipment into account as well, but I have never bothered to get a 'professional' opinion on it.
I have blindfolded many of my family and friends and played them a piece on vinyl and then on CD. Vinyl won every time. Before you mention crackles, it was an 180gram virgin vinyl record. There are no crackles on a good LP played on a turntable.
A turntable is not a record player. Record players damage the record with vinyl footprint.
Turntables do not.
Vinyl is and always will be the best source of music, as everyone in the music industry says, that is why all classic LP's are now being repressed and re-released.
Vinyl cannot hold a candle to a properly mastered digital source. The "warmth" claimed by the audiophiles is nothing more than self delusional anachronism.
There, that outta do it.![]()
Have you ever owned a turntable?
Not a record player, a turntable.
This is the sort of thing that people who have only ever owned a record player think. They have not ever heard a record.
Remember dial-a-disc; when you could listen to a record over the telephone, that is like listening to a record on a record player.
Listening to a turntable feeding a choke regulated pre/power amp, biwired into monitors is a completely different experience.
Speakers are not monitors, stereo amplifiers are not mono power blocks.
Once you heard the difference you would realise what you had been missing.
Hey hey play nice. I personally think any time some one mentions all this separate tracks, vinyl, special turntable stuff there is an implied criticism of digital. Why not just listen to the thing on youtube to see if you like it? What is wrong with that? Why must I buy separate track stuff etc etc to appreciate music?
Because it is the only way you will actually hear it.
Go to a concert, does it sound like mp3?
Seperates fed by vinyl sounds like the concert in your room.
You have never actually heard music.
Roxbrough did say that the music in question wasn't on youtube and he just so happens to like hi-fi separates which you don't need in this instance because the music's on CD...
You need seperates if you want to hear the LP.
CD is like painting over the MonaLisa, artificially altering the master tape.
Coheed and Cambria record using analogue equipment as do all artists of musical integrity.
I did not understand that to say it was not on Youtube. He is saying do not listen to it on youtube, listen to all the frequencies on separates.
Especially as it is in fact on Youtube:
or if you prefer a shorter version:
Shorter version????!!!!
mp3 is not the LP the artist made.
What ever 'version' someone looks at on You Tube, is not the same exerience as listening to the album.
Free Lossless Audio Codex gets closer, but the vinyl is still best.
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