XPost: rec.music.gdead, sci.electronics.design   
   From: ksi@koi8.net   
      
   In sci.electronics.design Trevor  wrote:   
   >   
   > "David"  wrote in message   
   > news:ikg6er$76h$1@news.eternal-september.org...   
   >>>> Even if the source material was marginal, you'd still have sonic   
   >>>> advantages with a CD. For example, the elimination of ticks and pops,   
   >>>> wow-and-flutter, and rumble. But I miss my anti-static gun, dirt   
   >>>> brush, and Yamaha direct-drive turntable nonetheless... :)   
   >>>   
   >>> Gee I sure don't!   
   >>> And I certainly don't miss the ticks, pops, wow, flutter, and rumble   
   >>> either. Nor the cost of replacement stylii or cartridges. Or trying to   
   >>> find decently made vinyl records in the first place! In fact I can't   
   >>> think of one thing I miss besides the bigger cover art. But the storage   
   >>> hassle more than negates that IMO.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Yet another person that hasn't listened to a recent release on vinyl and   
   >> compared it to the same release on CD then?   
   >> You'd be eating your words if you had.  For some reason the sound   
   >> engineers that mix vinyl, in general, don't compress the hell out of the   
   >> dynamic range like they do CD.   
   >   
   > Which of course has absolutely *nothing* to do with the pro's and cons of   
   > vinyl Vs CD, only the mastering choices.   
      
   The problem is people don't listen to CD or Vinyl. It is _music_ they listen   
   to. All the wonderful technical parameters don't make music any better.   
      
   Sure, CD looks better on paper. But it is already rule of thumb that almost   
   everything that goes on CD is of inferior quality while those who make LPs   
   take great care to do the best job possible to overcome media shortcomings.   
   That makes the resulting _music_ from LP beating CD by a huge margin despite   
   CD being better media on paper.   
      
   Just try to listen to e.g. Bob Marley "Uprising" on a CD. It is a worst   
   nightmare I ever heard. That is why I have all his records on LPs. CDs don't   
   even come close to those. But they are better on paper, yes.   
      
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