I have Vinyl Records I play .. Katy Perry Teenage Dream is my newest LP
I like the sound of Vinyl Records..I get it more then CD's
I'm in the hunt for
Transformers the Movie
Metallica Load
Metallica Reload
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I have Vinyl Records I play .. Katy Perry Teenage Dream is my newest LP
I like the sound of Vinyl Records..I get it more then CD's
I'm in the hunt for
Transformers the Movie
Metallica Load
Metallica Reload
Do heterosexual adult males actually listen to that ? J/k, man. I like Load and Reload.Quote:
Originally Posted by KnightWarrior
I like all kinds of music Pop, Metal or Rock
It's VINYL.
I had a big collection a few years back. Sold it to pay for school. Now school is done I'm slowing rebuying what I had before. Nowadays the vinyl usually cost more than the CD. I'm picking up killer CDs for $1-$5 nowadays. I don't mind because at least with CDs you can copy them and play them in your car and etc.
Crap, I change it, damn you google
I don't get why someone can't change the Title
I've been collecting Vinyl since I was 4 years old. I always listened to my parents/grandparents old LP's & 45's, and have purchased many more at yard sales. I estimate I have about 700 in total by now.
I just picked this vinyl up a week ago or so.
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I have a good bit of house music, as well as some old disco and funk. I really like listening to music on vinyl, but I don't do it much because at the moment I don't have room for my turntables to be set up.
Ive actually started getting into vinyl records a while ago. I went to the local Flee Market a few days ago and picked up some pretty good finds for $0.50 each, I got Blondie, The Erythmics, and a bunch of disco. I also have a record store nearby "Solo Records" that sells some records very cheap, Foreigner, Heart, Bee-gees and more are exactly 1$ each but other things cost much more. And most of the singles are $1 too. They also sell tapes, CD's and VHS but lets not get too off-topic...
I've got a small collection of vinyl. It's a mixture of old favourites that I grew up with which I keep for the awesome cover art, and stuff which has never seen a CD re-issue.
I enjoy the hands-on mechanical aspect of reproducing music with them. But I don't for a minute believe that records are fundamentally superior to CD when it comes to audio quality.
I'd argue that whatever advantage they may or may not have is almost certainly outweighed by the losses from less-than-perfect turntables, styluses, cartridges, tone arm designs, linearity, weighting, motor smoothness, etc. Plus the fact that every single time you play a record, you rub away a little bit of the sound.
So for my every day listening I very much prefer CDs.
lol Do heterosexual adult males actually listen to Load and Reload? ;) I like to buy vinyls for the sweet cover art some of them are sporting. A lot of them have more suff on the back and insert. One of my favorites:Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkDragon
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It was one of the many albums I remember my dad having before they all burned in a house fire. My sister also collects Journey albums.
I'm slowly building a collection, only wanting 45rpm 12" singles from certain people such as Giancarlo Pasquini, Gino Caria, Mauro Farina, Giuliano Crivellente, Fernando Bonini, Gianni Coraini, Clara Moroni etc. etc.... all italians :P
I do prefer CD over most vinyl, who says vinyl has better sound is in denial. 45rpms do have higher freq range but 33rpm ones are shit, noise is of course high but depends on your player and stereo separation is rather poor... But the giant sleeves full of artwork are awesome ^^
I got 4 more discs coming in mail, 2x italo, 1x spacesynth and 1x eurobeat
My current collection : http://www.discogs.com/collection?user=TmEE
My wantlist : http://www.discogs.com/wantlist?user=TmEE
...so if you happen to have anything in my wantlist I'm all ears ^^
A lot of the older music I listen to sounds better on vinyl because it was poorly remastered when released on CD. A lot of stuff from the 50's and 60's sound better on vinyl, especially my copy of "Neil Sedaka Sings his Greatest Hits". I've listened to the CD version, and it sounds horrible, they really messed up on the remastering with that one.
When I'm not listening to Vinyl, I usually just download and play music on my computer. I haven't listened to an actual CD in years.
There's a reason why equalizers exist :P
You can fix up nearly anything with a 10 band+ setup
Yeah, but when they remaster some older stuff, sometimes they change the volume of certain instruments, and sometimes instruments become completely inaudible, which can't be fixed with an equalizer.Quote:
Originally Posted by TmEE
I cases like that I get both, unless CD is really fuxxed up. I do prefer nice crisp sound, even if it means some stuff is not quite right... very subjective matter
The myth that vinyl somehow sounds better than CD or any digital format comes from a combination of factors. The most relevant today is how old releases are remastered on principle when they're re-released digitally, the music will be run through compressors and equalizers (at worst even multiple times in succession) which will most of the time just make it sound worse than the original. But this is simply due to human error and not the medium itself, which is what a lot of people think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jax184
The second comes from the early 80's when CD was getting established on the market. The quality of the playback equipment for CDs wasn't really great back then due to general inexperience (which has been rectified for a long time now). Then there was general ignorance on how PCM works, thinking the digitization would degrade the quality of the sound at clearly audible levels for humans, which isn't true. That was pretty much a moot point anyhow, seeing as the majority of vinyl music had already been digitized during the recording/production process before being put on vinyl.
With the right sound stereo, vinyl will sound better then CD
What does better mean exactly ? There's some aspects where it is better, such as possible freq range of 45rpm disc, but noise floor, stereo separation etc. are inferior and cannot be made better.
Some people say "warmer sound", but that generally means muffled... in which case you go to your EQ and tone down the 16KHz slider
Nice to see the Vinyl myth out in full force.
I collect Vinyl simply because its physical, and I love the artwork of a full sized Vinyl disc. The sound? I likey but I'm under no allusions as to its limitations. I mostly used to collect late 70's/early 80's New Wave, Punk, Post-Punk etc, one of my favourite periods in music. Still have them at my Mothers but I have no space in my tiny flat!
I collect metal vinyl but that's about it. I frame them and hang them on my wall since the covers look great in a frame, like a mini poster. if I want to listen to something I'll buy the cd version since I don't want to wear out my vinyl.
My dad has a collection of 11,000+ 45's (he hasn't bought any since the early 90's) boxes and boxes and boxes insanity.
Sad part is the sleeves for a lot of them have a good amount of wear which devalues the collection big time.
Space.
The vinyl frontier.
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Got them in mail today :D
I find all sorts of odd Vinyl when dumpster diving. I love vinyl but it is not the most convenient format. I have been listening to it more lately since I found a Toshiba SR-V10 which slides out like a CD player and fits in my entertainment center very well. With a good clean record with a decent needle they can sounds fantastic.
Awesome, now sega-16 has a vinyl records thread, two of my biggest hobbies combined in one place : D
LP records sound really good if you have the right setup. The difference in sound quality is astonishing, especially the needle is very important.
In the end, it's more work than with CDs, but I like the way how records are mastered. It makes for more dynamics (which is ridiculous, CDs have almost unlimited dynamic range in comparison to the LPs). But the theoretical advantages of the CD do not prevent people mastering their music with very low dynamics, so LPs actually have more of that... What a strange world.
I think the problem is people are turning toward Vinyl and older music on the basis that the format is inherently superior, when really its there minds telling them it is. The real issue is the heavy compression used in the mixing of most modern music which really limits the dynamic range CD's can produce and really gives CD's a bad rap.
Theres also a psychological impact of vinyl, sitting down to put a record on due to the associated size of the disc and the Amplification equipment required to reproduce the sound. The art of listening to music has been entirely undermined by how much easy access we have to it, MP3 players, Tinny Speakers in shops, and equally Tiny Laptop speakers do not belay the quality of great music. Of course if you sit down at a vinyl deck, slowly pull a record out and slap it down its already an investment of time, your already making a statement you want to listen to that album to yourself. I'm sitting on my laptop right now as I type this, I could open iTunes and listen to some music on crap speakers and it would drift into the background. So of course Vinyl will "seem" better because its generally through decent audio equipment and it becomes a listening 'experience', your indulging yourself in sound.
What is the definition of a "Vinly" record? :/
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Only took 5 days to arrive... from Japan, EMS is awesome !
lack of activity in this thread disturbs me :P
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Vinyl is cool. I prefar CDs... But there is just something cool about Vinyl. Watching a record play as the needle tracks along the groove is pretty cool. You can littery see it as the album plays. The only format where you can see a laser through the disc is DVD (but at that point I probally watch the movie as audio varients are not really common) and it's not super instersting to watch or involving providing you get past the safety mechinalisms. CDs it's invisable.
I think that as of now we have no fair way to prove if vinyl is better or not I think to do a fair test we need to get an audio cable spliter have one goto a vinly record recorder and the other going to a digital cd recorder also the audio amps and capacitors in the vinyl recorder or cd recorder should be the same value or same ic chip to eliminate the possibility that one has a better ic amp or heavier filtering on the audio.After that the audio will be played on the same speakers with the same volume settings and again the playback circuitry should be the same the only difference is one uses a needle and the other a dac. Also remember digital and analog are different analog is like a ramp and digital is like a stairs. But when there are 2^16 (65,536) stairs that take you up 5 feet and a ramp also takes you up 5 feet the stairs will look like a ramp because each stair is only 0.0000762939453125 feet tall I got that by doing 5/(2^16). 2^16 (^ meaning the power of) is a way to calculate the max value of a number with x amount of bits in this case 16 bits.
It's not like a digital recording. You comparing something that could have time domain differences. It's not possible to keep both perfectly sync. The record has wow and flutter and the CD has jitter. Plus, records and CDs have to be mastered differently, because of the limitations of the former format. Too much bass and the needle skips. Square waves, enjoy the skip. You also need the RIAA curve. Their two different mediams.Quote:
Originally Posted by sega16
CD is much better on everything but freq range and can sound much nicer... but when you go buy a CD and lookat a rip of it you'll see how compressed crap it is in many cases... fuck loudness war, 0db is not meant for crossing on digital media !
Now lets discuss those artworks, players, needles, HiFis and stuff :P