This is a dumb debate, and it comes up periodically on IDM and on
nearly every other mailing list I'm on, except for the Quaker-L
listserve.
So don't go there.
FYI I'm old enough to remember before CD's so I have first hand
knowledge of dealing with needles that wear out, records that skip,
and records mastered too tight on the inner grooves so the sound
goes all compressed and tinny. As a DJ tool I don't mind vinyl, but
hellfire man, who wants to deal with a turntable for listening?
That being said, the CD copy of 'Rubber Soul' by the Beatles doesn't
skip where my mono vinyl copy has for the last 30 years, and it still
disorients me every time the damn CD plays through that skip. As Ian Shoales
said, a CD without the surface noise and pops and clicks sounds like
music being played by ghosts.
Derr...did I just argue both sides of an issue that I told people not
to post about?
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