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Lynx33 
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 Topic: Which format do you prefer?
Posted: October 11 2010 at 06:10 |
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There are formats with traditions, there are formats with atmosphere and there are formats with practical reasons. In which one do you prefer listening to your progressive music?
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Mindez elmúlt. Ma már tudom köszönteni a szépséget.
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Vompatti
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Posted: October 11 2010 at 06:12 |
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Vinyl.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: October 11 2010 at 06:18 |
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CD or wma.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: October 11 2010 at 06:32 |
Vinyl and CD for me... with a preference for the later under the mini Lp format... for user friendliness reasons
WTF are APE& FLAC??
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king
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Posted: October 11 2010 at 06:33 |
Once you've heard good vinyl, you won't be happy with anything else.
But it's not very convenient!
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friso
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Posted: October 11 2010 at 06:35 |
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Vinyl. Then comes a very long period of nothing. Some more nothing. Distand rumblings... some more nothing.. and then 320 kb/s mp3.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: October 11 2010 at 07:07 |
 king wrote:
Once you've heard good vinyl, you won't be happy with anything else.
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You are wrong.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: October 11 2010 at 07:16 |
Snow Dog wrote:
king wrote:
Once you've heard good vinyl, you won't be happy with anything else.
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You are wrong. |
 I grew up with vinyl and it ain't all that. When Cds came out it was good bye needle noise. I hate the "jewel" case. Wish the original format had been put in cardboard mini-LP sleeves. There really should be a moratorium on these threads until the next new format comes out. So now I have to post the obligatory Jen Sorenson cartoon: 
Edited by Slartibartfast - October 11 2010 at 07:36
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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chopper
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Posted: October 11 2010 at 07:39 |
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What about wax cylinders?
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chopper
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Posted: October 11 2010 at 07:41 |
Sean Trane wrote:
Vinyl and CD for me... with a preference for the later under the mini Lp format... for user friendliness reasons
WTF are APE& FLAC?? |
Don't know about APE but FLAC is a lossless format.
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Shevrzl
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Posted: October 11 2010 at 07:49 |
Sean Trane wrote:
WTF are APE& FLAC?? |
FLAC all the way. Both APE and FLAC are lossless formats, but with different compression levels. Also FLAC is open source.
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javiprog
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Posted: October 11 2010 at 07:52 |
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vinyl of course
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cacha71
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Posted: October 11 2010 at 08:03 |
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All formats have their charm (except MP3 128) but I prefer lossless or CD because the sound quality is so much better
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http://www.last.fm/group/Progressive+Folk
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VanVanVan
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Posted: October 11 2010 at 08:04 |
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320 MP3s. Cheaper than CDs/vinyl, easier to organize, and to my ears there's no difference in sound quality.
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"The meaning of life is to give life meaning."-Arjen Lucassen
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Snow Dog
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Posted: October 11 2010 at 08:08 |
Slartibartfast wrote:
Snow Dog wrote:
king wrote:
Once you've heard good vinyl, you won't be happy with anything else.
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You are wrong. |
I grew up with vinyl and it ain't all that. :
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So did I and I agree. When Cd came along I never looked back. The only loss for me was the big covers.
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RUSHMANIAC
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Posted: October 11 2010 at 08:41 |
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1.Vinyl
2.CD
3.-
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Show Don't Tell
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Posted: October 11 2010 at 08:46 |
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1. CD
2. FLAC
3. MP3 at variable bit rate (set at V2, V1, or V0)
P.S. MP3 128? Yuck.
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JD
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Posted: October 11 2010 at 08:54 |
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I prefer Vinyl without a doubt, but my turntable has a bad habit of skipping when I drive over railway tracks so I had to trade it in for a CD player. Even vinyl transfered to CD sounds better than the same title released on CD. Don't ask me why, but it's true. All the other formats...CRAP!
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Thank you for supporting independently produced music
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Jörgemeister
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Posted: October 11 2010 at 09:02 |
MP3 320.
I have a pretty decent set up to listen music and i have never notice any difference between MP3 320 kbps and flac (but the difference in mb is noticeable)
someone prove me wrong with tangible facts.
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octopus-4
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Posted: October 11 2010 at 09:05 |
It depends on the kind of music and year of release and also on the quality of the original recording. For me vinyl is better. I remember the first time I've listened to Atom Heart Mother on CD. The sound was cleaner with a lot of dynamics, but it wasn't the same. The fact is that starting from mid-80s artists and producers started thinking the sound for the "new" digital support. In this case digital is better.
But I vote for vinyl, anyway.
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