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From:
g303
To:
IDM
Date:
Sun, 24 Mar 1996 00:44:23 +0000
Subject:
(idm) CD Vs Vinyl <- yes the taboo topic that won't go away! Was [Re: CDs (Re: (idm) Aphex Twin - On, Xepha)]
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At 12:40 23/03/96 -0800, you wrote:
quoted 13 lines On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, Sugatis actually turned not out to have wrote:> > >On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, Sugatis actually turned not out to have wrote: > >> >Vinyl just plain sucks, unless you're one of those hopeless romantic types >> >that thinks anything from the past is so much better than the present that >> >you can ignore the facts and convince yourself otherwise. >> > >There's a lot more to buying vinyl than sound quality. These days vinyl >has become an artpiece of sorts. You get cool music and a much larger canvas >for the artwork which is often stunning. CD artwork just doesn't do it >for me like vinyl, and the sound quality difference isn't all that great.
What everyone forgets is that quite a lot of techno stuff is cut from nothing more than TDK SA90s in the first place - so bollocks to people who say CD sounds better than vinyl - quite often it doesn't sound better than a good tape recording. You are limited to the crap frequency range on compact cassette ~50 -15,000 Hz. (hey even worse than 20-20k! Sorry, cheap shot, but I couldn't resist.) I find this thought quite amusing when people spend thousands of pounds at their end of things on hifi (me included (but not thousands alas!)). The artist has thoroughly buggered them before they even take posession of the music. g.