Right on. Vinyl is cool if you don't care about preserving your music. I
mean every time you play a record, you are basically erasing it little by
little. When I buy vinyl, I play it once into my computer and then Burn it
to CD-R and file the vinyl away in a safe place. That's all it's really
good for it seems, to collect. Because it wears out so easily.
Peace,
-AL
quoted 66 lines From: "M Mercer" <vletrmx@hotmail.com>
>From: "M Mercer" <vletrmx@hotmail.com>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: Re: [idm] recording formats
>Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 17:00:48 EDT
>
>never could get into vinyl. too much care involved.... it scratches very
>easily, it warps with time and needs very particular storage methods. also,
>CDs never get weather-worn by humidity, etc., or at least not in my
>experience. also, it's less portable, takes up more shelf space (depending
>on which way you look at it)....
>
>as for the sound, i would rather listen to digitally recorded music on a
>digital format. i assume that if someone recorded his/her music on a nice
>digital computer system and mastered it with studio monitors then more
>often
>than not the desired sound is the cleaner, more "perfect" production
>quality. if i wanted pops and clicks on my music, i'd put them there
>myself.
>
>then again, i suppose like anything else, it always goes back to personal
>preference. that and i couldn't possibly afford to buy vinyl on top of the
>large amount of CDs i buy every month ;-)
>
>my .02
>matt
>
>
>
>>From: Josh Davison <yoshi@enteract.com>
>>To: rebecca263 <rebecca263@netzero.net>
>>CC: idm <idm@hyperreal.org>
>>Subject: Re: [idm] Kid A
>>Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 09:28:12 -0500 (CDT)
>>
>>vinyl every time. it sounds better, it looks nicer, and if you're an
>>intellectual property nazi, they're much harder to rip into MP3's...
>>
>>the only possible benefit of cd's is convenience and the slight
>>increase in durability. personally i'd rather use minidiscs than cds
>>since they are more portable, come in a very fancy dustproof shell, and
>>therefore more durable. oh yeah and they are re-/recordable
>>
>>anyway watch for minidiscs to replace the aging cassette tape format.
>>
>>josh
>
>
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