Am I a hipster? — Page 2

I rest my case.

CatBus said:

You are posting this question in a Star Wars forum, ergo no on the thread title. If what you’re really asking is if you spend too much time wondering what other people might think about you, the answer is yes. Is it more than most other people do, though? Doubtful.

Thanks for that.

DominicCobb said:

Isn’t this Star Wars forum specifically kinda hipstery at least a little bit? “I only watch the original Star Wars movies edited to their original theatrical releases using vintage film print sources by a former English teacher in the Czech Republic.”

lol 😄

I dress kinda like a hipster?

Yeah. Is that weird?

TV’s Frink said:

What am I, a tailor?

The long history of the threads you’ve made suggest so, yes.

Possessed said:

I might be. I listen to all my music at home on vinyl. But it’s because I legitimately like it and have since I was a little kid before I even knew it was cool. And on my system with hide cabinet speakers they legitimately sound superior and I’ve verified this through a/b testing of the same songs. Whether it’s because vinyl is actually better or if vinyl releases are just mastered better is irrelevant because the vinyls I have sounds better than the cds I have.

Do hipsters a/b test things to verify sound quality? I’m the type to do that too, but I always felt hipsters claimed things to be superior regardless of any proof… not that I really know much about hipsters. I’m 42, so i think I’m too old to be a hipster or to even understand them.

Oh… and I hate to do this, but the plural of vinyl is just “vinyl.” I worked at a record store for a few years and saying “vinyls” was forbidden. Wait a sec… maybe I am a hipster!?

I used to work with a chemical called acrylonitrile. In organic chemistry, there’s a new naming convention and an old naming convention. Using the old naming convention, acrylonitrile would have been called vinyl cyanide. Which became the name of my hypothetical band, if I ever had one. Our first album would have been called Acrylonitrile, and only chemistry hipsters would know the album was eponymous.

I actually am a chemistry hipster. I even burned my hand because I touched the reaction flask before it was cool.

Possessed said:

I might be. I listen to all my music at home on vinyl. But it’s because I legitimately like it and have since I was a little kid before I even knew it was cool. And on my system with hide cabinet speakers they legitimately sound superior and I’ve verified this through a/b testing of the same songs. Whether it’s because vinyl is actually better or if vinyl releases are just mastered better is irrelevant because the vinyls I have sounds better than the cds I have.

However, vinyl becomes worn and scratched over time. One wonders why you don’t then transfer them to FLAC for a digital copy and keep your vinyls pristine.

FLAC isn’t hipster. Picky, yes, but not hipster.

Also, I did once listen to an NPR segment about vinyl, and how encoding on vinyl is inherently superior because digital reproduction of an analog audio wavelength by its very nature removes information (while vinyl is already analog). However, I would think FLAC better at reproducing it than redbook audio. Plus, without a digital transfer, how else could you get comparable sound from a mobile device or from your car as you do from your entertainment center?