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   From: ksi@koi8.net   
      
   In sci.electronics.design Trevor  wrote:   
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   > "Sergey Kubushyn"  wrote in message   
   > news:ikhu7r$542$1@speranza.aioe.org...   
   >>   
   >> These days most of it is like SPAM. There is no difference what brand it   
   >> is   
   >> or what color the label is, it is SPAM. And there is no need for a french   
   >> chief for this, everybody would do. It is no longer needed that one can   
   >> sing   
   >> or play a musical instrument to become a "musician" or a "singer" -- 99%   
   >> of   
   >> all, sorry for an expression, music is just dancing to a phonogram an   
   >> showing boobs. They can be deaf and dumb but still be "singers." No voice   
   >> required.   
   >   
   > While your opinion is shared by many, I fail to see how that makes vinyl   
   > better than CD. ANYTHING can be released on either format, and frankly I   
   > prefer a format which is technically superior, more convenient, cheaper, AND   
   > allows ME a far greater choice. That you prefer your choices to be limited   
   > to what is put on vinyl these days is your right, and you are welcome to it.   
      
   I do _NOT_ claim vinyl is better than CD. What I claim is _music_ put on   
   vinyl is _USUALLY_ made (mixed, processed, whatever you call it) to higher   
   quality. There are exceptions, of course, both ways but usually it is what   
   happens.   
      
   That creates a paradox -- better sound comes on a worse media. But that is   
   _sound_ I personally care for, not intrinsic media quality. And that   
   paradoxically makes vinyl a better media for me and a few like me despite   
   the fact it is actually worse physical media...   
      
   That does _NOT_ mean I personally cut my own LPs :) No, I do use CD as a   
   media for everyday listening and 24/96 digital files for archival purposes.   
   But if there is a choice of getting some recording in either form I will   
   always choose vinyl as my primary source. Then I'll make 2 copies of it, one   
   as 24/96 file and--oh horror!--another one as analog tape. And I will   
   downsample that 24/96 to 16/44 and burn CDs for everyday use with selected   
   songs or whatever.   
      
   Those CDs will even have some preprocessing done like noise elimination etc.   
   But 24/96 and analog tape will be full original copy, uncompressed raw   
   format with everything that was on that LP, one side at a time from start to   
   finish.   
      
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