Never had my own records, I copied quite a few of my parents' to tape so I could listen to it on my bike to school. I do have quite a CD collection, and I did rip quite a few of them to MP3/FLAC.
I was at a book store the other day ( Barnes and Noble, so no an Indie ) and they had a Huge assortment of vinyl, and some cd's. Not a record store ( anymore ) , but also a reversal in stocking over the last 10 years.
The popping and scratching may give it a bit of character, sure, just like the handling of vinyl. But I'd rather have the clean sound of a CD, I could add the popping, scratching and decreasing dynamical range near the end with a bit of software. Can't do that the other way around π
Unfortunately, someone took away the scratches and gave this a muddy sound. The Internet Archive used to have a recording directly from the shellac, with no retouching. That was before the recent attack by the record industry.
I'm sure someone has already written an open source free software to take a ultra high resolution picture of vinyl and process it into the highest quality audio tracks...
There have been 'no touch' laser 'needle' turntables. I'm not sure if it is anything other than a gimmick. Sound quality has never been up to anything other than okay. Wikipedia - Laser Turntable
Hans van Zijst
in reply to πππππ π³οΈββ§οΈπ¦ • • •Never had my own records, I copied quite a few of my parents' to tape so I could listen to it on my bike to school. I do have quite a CD collection, and I did rip quite a few of them to MP3/FLAC.
But I refuse to buy a subscription. Hard pass.
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in reply to πππππ π³οΈββ§οΈπ¦ • • •Oh yes, vinyl is becoming popular again. Not sure why. Again, it's not the quality.
Must be a kind of melancholy, I think.
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in reply to πππππ π³οΈββ§οΈπ¦ • • •Yeah just tell this boomer all about it!........
What a pain in the ass. But I just ripped all my CD's to FLAC and down load them to my phone.
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in reply to πππππ π³οΈββ§οΈπ¦ • • •First: not GenX but all of us who are old enough to have owned phonograph records.
Second: I also prefer the bright, clear sound of CDs.
Third: My favorite records of all time were released on shellac records, not vinyl. Of course they were recorded before I was born.
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Unfortunately, someone took away the scratches and gave this a muddy sound. The Internet Archive used to have a recording directly from the shellac, with no retouching. That was before the recent attack by the record industry.
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in reply to πππππ π³οΈββ§οΈπ¦ • • •I'm not sure if it is anything other than a gimmick.
Sound quality has never been up to anything other than okay. Wikipedia - Laser Turntable
turntable that plays records using laser beams
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