Why vinyl and CD's still sell.

[Muhammed]

Most of us have been there. You're working away on your computer, listening to your favorite music on You Tube, 3 1/2 minuets in the music stops, and a noisy bimbo in an apron starts chattering about car insurance, or some idiot who just OD'd on caffeine starts bellowing mindlessly about a restaurant chain (which is nowhere near where you live) You quickly hit the mute button and wait for the verbal vomiting to stop and your music to resume (as thoughts of automatic weapons dance through your head) 3-4 minutes later you're treated to the same "enriching" experience. This leaves you with 3 options:

1. Put up with it.
2. Buy a streaming service
3. Break out your old vinyl or CD's and tell You Tube to go and F**K itself!

Yes, Vinyl and CDs are old school, but many of us still have them, so let us reduce our blood pressure a bit by using them.

YouTube compression is lossy anyways. You'll get better quality sound from CD's or tape. The problem with vinyl is that there was physical limitations on the lower ranges. That's why old vinyl albums get remastered when they are put out in digital format.

I ripped all my CD's onto hard drives. Raw uncompressed PCM audio straight to WAV. That's lossless.

 

[August West]

Vinyl sounds the best of all if played through a good system. I have an old Bang & Olufsen 3000 turntable I bought new back in the 1980's. Linear tracking arm, magnetic induction drive, simply an incredible piece of equipment that performs better than turntables costing thousands.

Vinyl does sound best, but it doesn`t travel well. When the weather breaks I`ll be listening to Spotify outdoors on a Bluetooth speaker. It`s worth an extra $2 or whatever it is to go commercial free.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Most of us have been there. You're working away on your computer, listening to your favorite music on You Tube, 3 1/2 minuets in the music stops, and a noisy bimbo in an apron starts chattering about car insurance, or some idiot who just OD'd on caffeine starts bellowing mindlessly about a restaurant chain (which is nowhere near where you live) You quickly hit the mute button and wait for the verbal vomiting to stop and your music to resume (as thoughts of automatic weapons dance through your head) 3-4 minutes later you're treated to the same "enriching" experience. This leaves you with 3 options:

1. Put up with it.
2. Buy a streaming service
3. Break out your old vinyl or CD's and tell You Tube to go and F**K itself!

Yes, Vinyl and CDs are old school, but many of us still have them, so let us reduce our blood pressure a bit by using them.

If you're paying for it sirrus for the car you can download the app or stream from a computer no commercials.

Amazon has a higher quality sound.. if you have prime still might be free unless they're charging for it now