Big BIG News! For The First Time Since 1987, Record Sales Have Over Taken CDs!

[Harry Dresden]

not interested. i'd rather listen for free on spotify or youtube. i'm a spoiled brat like that. enjoy your vinyls grandpas lol

you are also a mommas boy who lets mommy buy everything for you....you told me that....

 

[Harry Dresden]

i don't want to pay because i don't want to work

post 21.....and this guy is 34 years old....he should be ashamed....

 

[excalibur]

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RECORDS RULE FOREVER

CD sounds as good. And no vinyl BS to worry about.

 

[excalibur]

Vinyl sounds better.

Nah.

 

[toobfreak]

CD sounds as good.

Maybe better when all you got is a Sears hi-fi with a crappy phono playback system which harms and restricts the playback quality of the record!

You see, phono playback is a very complicated and difficult thing! Even if you have a good table (many hundreds to thousands of dollars) and a good cartridge (many hundreds or thousands of dollars), then hopefully after you get the 20-some arm and headshell adjustments and tracking and bias all set up just right (requiring special tools), then you either need to use a specal strainguage pickup (requiring a bias voltage supply (see arrowed box)

or a 400 volt Class-A RIAA equalization preamp (preferably low feedback tube driven:

with a line level preamp to bring the low output of the cartridge up, before you can even feed the signal into the main stereo! This is where all the damage is done and the sound quality lost as no stereo you have ever seen, owned or heard did all that--- all that Kenwood, Radio Shack and Sansui shit you were raised on likely did all of that with just some small, dirt-cheap transistor op amp circuit stuffed into the corner of your receiver costing about $5.95.

So you see, inventing the CD wasn't about better sound, it was about bringing better sound made cheaply to the listener without requiring them to invest a lot of skill, patience and effort to get it in a medium that was a lot cheaper to make so they could increase their profit margin!

CDs and most CD players are DIRT CHEAP to make! It is all about the industry making more money while giving the consumer a superficially more hi-fi sound that required no skill and effort by the user so that any dummy could buy one.

Done right, a good LP played back can sound close to or even better than a live performance because the record is a direct analog of the original musical performance.

And the proof in all of this is the fact that 37 years after trying to ween people onto digital, consumers are choosing to go back to vinyl. Digital music hurts my ears and gives the user listener fatigue.

 

[basquebromance]

Metallica Just Bought an Established Vinyl Pressing Plant + Jack White Is Stoked

.... And vinyl for all.

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