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Everyone knows vinyl is better, so why do people buy cds?
I have a great hi fi stereo at home and play records only. They sound so much warmer and richer than compact discs. You can hear the music the way God intended with the mid range frequencies being more prominent.
CDs are harsh sounding and you only get the high and low end.
Plus, CDs compromise the fidelity of older recordings.
I would imagine that vinyl records are hard to come by these days, there is no other choice but digital downloads and cd's. I still have a lot of my old vinyl record albums that I refuse to part with. They are the classics of rock!
I'm glad I still have my turntable and vinyl, but CDs and MP3s are a heck of a lot more portable.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm ashamed to say that I don't know how I lived without my Ipod before ... can't put a turntable in a car. Plus, with vinyl, there are issues with upkeep.
Everyone knows vinyl is better, so why do people buy cds?
I have a great hi fi stereo at home and play records only. They sound so much warmer and richer than compact discs. You can hear the music the way God intended with the mid range frequencies being more prominent.
CDs are harsh sounding and you only get the high and low end.
Plus, CDs compromise the fidelity of older recordings.
Vinyl is the way to go !
Actually what you are hearing is vinyl's inability to record and reproduce frequencies on the higher and lower end. With a CD(if a digital recording), all frequency reproduction is determined by the DA converter, not the media itself. Yes, there are SOME issues, but mostly with bad remastering. That's why you want CD's which are "DDD", which means the original recording was digital. Elton John's "Live in Australia" is one of the best representations of this type of recording I've heard, you may want to listen to that one.
As far as putting Jimi Hendrix on a CD, yeah, that can sound pretty bad. The original recording was analog, so anything you hear beyond a certain frequency range has been artificially added to the recording. It's kind of like colorizing black and white movies. It never looks right, the same way digitally remastered music never sounds right.
The answer is to keep the vinyl for the old stuff, and buy the new stuff on CD's.
A bit off topic, but I'm a tad...jealous, of those of you who kept your vinyl collections!
I sold my late 70's/early 80's punk/hardcore collection as a young mother (needed the $$$ for baby stuff). I really regret losing my complete original Big Boys collection and I hope whoever has my translucent BLUE vinyl "The Faith" album is a deserving owner. ~sigh~
Brighter news: I recently picked up Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Benny Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert at a thrift store for 50 cents a piece. Luckily I still have a turntable.
So, for you vinyl fans: best place (on line) to purchase needles???
A bit off topic, but I'm a tad...jealous, of those of you who kept your vinyl collections!
I sold my late 70's/early 80's punk/hardcore collection as a young mother (needed the $$$ for baby stuff). I really regret losing my complete original Big Boys collection and I hope whoever has my transluscent BLUE vinyl "The Faith" album is a deserving owner. ~sigh~
Brighter news: I recently picked up Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Benny Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert at a thrift store for 50 cents a piece. Luckily I still have a turntable.
So, for you vinyl fans: best place (on line) to purchase needles???
J & R Music World in New York City is an excellent store. Joe Freidman is a bit of a !@#%(the J in J & R), lol, but the store his wife mostly runs is pretty good (Rochelle, the R).
Actually what you are hearing is vinyl's inability to record and reproduce frequencies on the higher and lower end. With a CD(if a digital recording), all frequency reproduction is determined by the DA converter, not the media itself. Yes, there are SOME issues, but mostly with bad remastering. That's why you want CD's which are "DDD", which means the original recording was digital. Elton John's "Live in Australia" is one of the best representations of this type of recording I've heard, you may want to listen to that one.
As far as putting Jimi Hendrix on a CD, yeah, that can sound pretty bad. The original recording was analog, so anything you hear beyond a certain frequency range has been artificially added to the recording. It's kind of like colorizing black and white movies. It never looks right, the same way digitally remastered music never sounds right.
The answer is to keep the vinyl for the old stuff, and buy the new stuff on CD's.
-TT
Let me put it this way:
I only buy CDs for convienence, not sound quality. CDs lack the mid range frequencies which are most pleasureable to the human ear.
If I can find a new release on viny, I will definitely get it
I got The Killer's Sam's Town on vinyl and CD. The vinyl sounds much better.
Of course it depends on what you have. If you have a portable record player with a run of the mill needle, your records wont sound as good
I have a deluxe strereo consol
CDs are just too cheesy for me. But I do use CDs. Just not as often.
Dont get me started on "digital remastering". They totally ruin the recording that way.
I get so miffed when I see these misleading ads on TV for CD collections claiming they sound better than they originally did because they have been "digitally remastered". When they digitally remaster anything, they ruin the fidelity of the recording. Records sound closer to the way its supposed so sound in the studio.
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