Exactly. With a decent turntable and a good cartridge, you would be surprised how much detail you can extract from vinyl records. Japanese vinyl sounds better than a lot of CDs. You can’t hear clicks or distortion. I’m glad i held on to a lot of my vinyl, especially the imported vinyl. There’s nothing like it. Digital is compressed to death, especially on MP3 players.
NOT WITH YOUR FINGERS! You SLIDE the album out and gently hold it by the edges. (Sorry…pet peeve; i still have all of my 45s and albums from my teen years…hundreds of ’em)
The advantages of digital are that the signal to noise ratio is much better than vinyl (no hiss) and that CDs don’t wear down like vinyl does even with the best turntable and stylus. Also, store-bought CDs are not MP3 compressed. No information is lost. You can program a CD player to play only certain tracks and repeat as often as you like; that’s not possible with vinyl. Even moving the stylus by hand to skip to a track you want puts you in danger of a scratch. But if vinyl sounds better to you, it’s your privilege. I still have my magnificent Technics SL-1300 with diamond stylus (which will eventually wear down, unfortunately).
Music has to be portable now. Vinyl and turntables aren’t portable. They can’t go in the car. I can take 5000 cd’s with me to work on my laptop. You can’t do that with vinyl.
Then there’s the issue of WHAT it is you’re listening to. They haven’t made any music since the mid ’90’s that isn’t cobbled together through a computer. Of course, nothing that’s come out since then is worth listening to either…
BTW, for those who might want to repeat the experiment, it was most noticable with Santana’s Supernatural CD. And I’m not sure if the difference would be noticable over earbuds or cheapy boombox, but it was on at least 3 systems I heard it on (the lab, a musician’s, and my dad’s which is custom)
This is the wrong place for me. I love many kinds of music, mostly to dance to (I can dance anywhere if I hear something catchy) or as background for anything else I had quite a good collection od records that I gave away in 1998 when I moved.
There are some I’d like still, just as my old VHS and 100s of great Beta Videos that I recorded when there were good shows worth saving (still save all my cooking decorating and dress design) but then, there were great foreign films and operas (and even a free adult channel).
Sprung from cages out on highway 9, Chrome wheeled, fuel injected,and steppin’ out over the line h-Oh, Baby this town rips the bones from your back It’s a death trap, it’s a suicide rap We gotta get out while we’re young `Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run
I can. There is a grand difference, depending on the microphones used to record the music in the first place. Digital is convenient, but there is nothing cooler than having 12" graphics on the album cover of the original pressing to look at, plus having a white vinyl copy of the British pressing of the Beatles “White Album” on white vinyl with the Apple label playing on a cool Dual CS 1245 turntable w/a Ortofon Diamond cartridge with no pops or clicks to listen to. Digital is okay, but it has a tendency to sound cold and hard. Analog has a much warmer sound. When you listen intently, and especially on headphones, it will become all the more apparent.
Ottodesu over 10 years ago
Of course. That’s the rare Friesian Cow pressing.
Swalb%515 over 10 years ago
Exactly. With a decent turntable and a good cartridge, you would be surprised how much detail you can extract from vinyl records. Japanese vinyl sounds better than a lot of CDs. You can’t hear clicks or distortion. I’m glad i held on to a lot of my vinyl, especially the imported vinyl. There’s nothing like it. Digital is compressed to death, especially on MP3 players.
rhtatro over 10 years ago
Ears work in analog, not digital.
Wren Fahel over 10 years ago
NOT WITH YOUR FINGERS! You SLIDE the album out and gently hold it by the edges. (Sorry…pet peeve; i still have all of my 45s and albums from my teen years…hundreds of ’em)
Contessa Carrington over 10 years ago
I just wonder if Jimbo has ever met Vicky or if Jimbo has an alter ego as well. Might be nice to see his, if he has one.
Ray_C over 10 years ago
The advantages of digital are that the signal to noise ratio is much better than vinyl (no hiss) and that CDs don’t wear down like vinyl does even with the best turntable and stylus. Also, store-bought CDs are not MP3 compressed. No information is lost. You can program a CD player to play only certain tracks and repeat as often as you like; that’s not possible with vinyl. Even moving the stylus by hand to skip to a track you want puts you in danger of a scratch. But if vinyl sounds better to you, it’s your privilege. I still have my magnificent Technics SL-1300 with diamond stylus (which will eventually wear down, unfortunately).
timrinaldo over 10 years ago
The Telecaster has too many pickups and not enough strings…
duffer37 over 10 years ago
Music has to be portable now. Vinyl and turntables aren’t portable. They can’t go in the car. I can take 5000 cd’s with me to work on my laptop. You can’t do that with vinyl.
Then there’s the issue of WHAT it is you’re listening to. They haven’t made any music since the mid ’90’s that isn’t cobbled together through a computer. Of course, nothing that’s come out since then is worth listening to either…
water_moon over 10 years ago
BTW, for those who might want to repeat the experiment, it was most noticable with Santana’s Supernatural CD. And I’m not sure if the difference would be noticable over earbuds or cheapy boombox, but it was on at least 3 systems I heard it on (the lab, a musician’s, and my dad’s which is custom)
Hawthorne over 10 years ago
I don’t need an alter ego for that – I just prefer vinyl, all else being equal.
vldazzle over 10 years ago
This is the wrong place for me. I love many kinds of music, mostly to dance to (I can dance anywhere if I hear something catchy) or as background for anything else I had quite a good collection od records that I gave away in 1998 when I moved.
There are some I’d like still, just as my old VHS and 100s of great Beta Videos that I recorded when there were good shows worth saving (still save all my cooking decorating and dress design) but then, there were great foreign films and operas (and even a free adult channel).
Rose needs her alter-ego to dance (I don’t).
FireMedic over 10 years ago
Sprung from cages out on highway 9, Chrome wheeled, fuel injected,and steppin’ out over the line h-Oh, Baby this town rips the bones from your back It’s a death trap, it’s a suicide rap We gotta get out while we’re young `Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run
Swalb%515 over 10 years ago
I can. There is a grand difference, depending on the microphones used to record the music in the first place. Digital is convenient, but there is nothing cooler than having 12" graphics on the album cover of the original pressing to look at, plus having a white vinyl copy of the British pressing of the Beatles “White Album” on white vinyl with the Apple label playing on a cool Dual CS 1245 turntable w/a Ortofon Diamond cartridge with no pops or clicks to listen to. Digital is okay, but it has a tendency to sound cold and hard. Analog has a much warmer sound. When you listen intently, and especially on headphones, it will become all the more apparent.