XPost: rec.music.gdead, sci.electronics.design   
   From: trevor@home.net   
      
   "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.   
      
   Trevor.   
      
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