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Darth Id

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#969783
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Lurkers Name suggestions (Come On Lurkers JOIN IN!)
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TV’s Frink said:

Redundant Post, is Redundant.

No. Necessary YHXW Chastisement, is Necessary.
He’s said it himself a weirdly large number of times: if we don’t meticulously document and deconstruct his errors and foibles, he will never learn. Gotta be mean, too. He craves the rough love of my throbbing pedantry.

Your post? Didn’t even notice it. Boring, unfunny. Fails to assign righteous blame. I mean, wtrf is a farmer framer, anyway? Stupid.

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#969569
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Random Thoughts
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Possessed said:

Actually my dad prefers CD’s. Otherwise he wouldn’t have them as he obviously bought the records first.

It’s the fact that everything made for vinyl is mastered in a superior fashion. If CD’s were mastered better then this would be an entirely different discussion. But I don’t like my music brick-walled.

That’s a bit of an overstatement, but I concede it’s essentially true.
My point, though, is that vinyl’s other massively distracting and distorting drawbacks usually make vinyl sound worse, even notwithstanding the more tasteful masters.

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#969453
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Random Thoughts
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Possessed said:

Nostalgia of things that came out before I was born? I don’t think so.

Yes. Sounds like it’s your father’s audiopheelie fetishism rubbing off on you, so nostalgia-by-proxy.

I’m saying most vinyls that come out are superior to their CD counterparts.

You are obviously saying that. And you are wrong, objectively and quantifiably. Because your subjective impressions are colored by the placebo effect and expectation-confirmation bias.

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#969423
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Random Thoughts
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Possessed said:

True. But my dad has a huge vinyl and CD collection. Lots of titles on both. Haven’t encountered a single instance where the vinyl didn’t blow the CD out of the water. Played on the same receiver and speakers. A good turntable and receiver with good receivers is going to sound better, you can quote as many articles if you want but until you’ve heard vinyl on the proper setup you haven’t heard recorded music.

Hahaha no.
The last third of EVERY side of EVERY record suffers from audible Inner Groove Distortion. It is a fundamental, inescapable limitation of the vinyl medium. As a partial ameliorative measure, the cutting engineers painstakingly REMOVE higher frequencies from the waveform gradually as they move into the center of the disc. This is a measurable, audible, undebatable LOSS of information and fidelity. And it HAS to be done on EVERY record.
And it sounds, frankly, like goddamn shit.

I say this as a compulsive vinyl collector.

Then, there is the unmistakable, rhythmic THWIP that happens, to some degree, on a significant minority of records due to minor disc warping, which happens during manufacture. Watch a record. Except for a very few lucky flat pressings, the tonearm will almost always bob up and down to some degree. This causes audible WOW on nearly every disc, and frequently (I’d estimate a quarter of new pressings that I buy) you get that nice THWIP as the tonearm takes a moment too long to dip back down into the groove.

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#969183
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Random Thoughts
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yhwx said:

One Last Note on Vinyl

A couple of weeks ago there was a discussion in the Albums forum about vinyl and CD. I forgot to mention a couple of things in more detail, such as the frequency response of vinyl versus CD. Most masters of records used various equalization techniques to alleviate the poor frequency response of vinyl. CD does not have these limitations of frequency response and other issues such as hiss, popping, crackle, and more. So, in general, well mastered tracks will sound better on CD than on vinyl. The problem is that most tracks are mastered worse on CD than vinyl. This is where the misconception starts. Through a game of telephone, the fact that tracks are worse mastered on CD gets bended to the misconception that vinyl is better at reproducing sound than CD. So, while you can say that you like the way that vinyl sounds better than CD and how you like the experience, you have a problem when you start to get into the objective terriorty when you start to say that vinyl is better than CD.

Rant over.

Holy shit…
I un-ironically agree with this wholeheartedly, and even think its clearly stated and not a waste of typing in the least.
And it’s even more or less appropriate for this thread!

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH THE REAL HXYW?!?!?!?!?!

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#968451
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Morality--read the first post before posting or judging my posts
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Lord Haseo said:

Jeebus said:

What do you consider to be a meager existence?

…I’m 21 years old and am merely a construction worker but I aspire to make some type of impact. I don’t know how I’ll do it but if I don’t my life will have been of no consequence.

You mean…other than the buildings you helped build that will remain standing after you’re gone.