Vinyl

Paravion wrote:   I'd not suggest buying some cheap USB record player (it's a horrible invention)

Yes, the Planar 2 is better than the Project





Edited by oliverstoned - February 23 2011 at 13:39

The walls of your house may be made with vinyls piles, it doesn't mean that you've heard a real/well-setted vynil deck playing a good condition vinyl on a good system (lot of conditions isn't it?).


Edited by oliverstoned - February 23 2011 at 13:31

JLocke wrote: paganinio wrote: I've never heard anything on Vinyl and I don't care. Maybe it could sound better at times. It doesn't. The handling of the mix itself is the only difference. If done properly, the CD will sound just as good if not better than the Vinyl. Well, except it will be missing all of the hiss, pops and ticks that many here call that ''warmer'', ''richer'' sound.

You don't know what you're saying.

AbrahamSapien wrote: One thing, what about colour vinyls? I've bought a rare red reissue of ITCOTCK, but I think that the scratches are more often every time I listen to the vinyl (it's plastic). They have grown stronger after I (but REALLY softly) cleaned the vinyl with a tissue. Is there anything wrong with that, or is it the vinyl? I've done the same with my other "regular" vinyls but didn't damage them.

I would think that a dry [or even a wet] tissue [like Kleenex type tissue?] would/could leave tiny pieces of paper on the surface that would then get ground further into the grooves while your playing the record, causing surface noise. Try this;

the vinyl may not have a superior sound to cd, but the experience is. you'll take out a beautifully packaged vinyl and carefully take out the inner bag, place the record on the turntable, drop the needle down, study the inserts, sleeve and lyrics and stuff while listening, and change side after 15-20 minutes. with cd you just take it out from an ugly jewel case and hit play, then often start doing something else and the listening is not the main activity. with vinyl you'll most likely put more emotion and ambition into listening.

Vinyl probably sounds better than CD, with a better frequency-response, due to the techniques involved with 'cutting' the album, and the physical nature of the vinyl, itself, (it just sounds 'warmer', to me),  but easily gets damaged.....cassette and 8-track were inconvenient as the tracks were usually 'staggered, or left no space for 'artwork'....... CD cases are just WAY too small to skin-up on......I guess they ALL got their drawbacks........I DO miss 'album-art', tho......it's just not 'definitive' enough for me, on anything smaller than a 12" vinyl album. Mp3 seems to be the way to go, these days, but even then, you lose some of the audio spectrum (ok, you cant hear 12Hz bass in isolation, but when its propping up a 100-200Hz signal, you DO notice it when it's gone). I prefer vinyl, personally, but where are you gonna get 'new' vinyl of older albums from, these days????

Mr ProgFreak wrote: elder08 wrote: JLocke wrote: elder08 wrote: I'm only fourteen and enjoy vinyl more than cd's and the only way i can distinguish the vinyl sounding better is while listening to cd's you can here a slight digital sound that does not appear on vinyl You've got to be kidding me.  What? i dont get it I guess he's wondering what that "digital sound" sounds like.

Its probably the lack of pops, hiss, crackling and other extraneous sounds.

Be warned that the reissues are almost absolutely remasters, and don't have the original mix that most get the vinyl for anyway.

Edited by himtroy - April 26 2010 at 17:07

One of my bosses has gone on a vinyl collecting frenzy.  He doesn't care about the content so has started asking strangers he runs into if they have any and has met with some success.  He said only one guy he's asked said he did have some but that he wasn't parting with them.  One of the more amusing acquisitions was a '50's music for bachelors record with really sexist liner notes on the back.  I'll see if I can post it sometime.

Edited by Slartibartfast - April 12 2010 at 07:27