Re: Question

On Fri, 15 May 2009 21:53:33 -0700, "The Mighty TB"
<XOXOXO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Tarkus" wrote:

What I really love is the vinyl cult who constantly preach about how much
warmer and natural the sound is than digital, and then rip their LPs and
proudly upload them to torrent sites, as if it's something special.

When they rip them, they're converting them to digital, but not using a
multi million dollar studio and the original source material that the CD
producers use.

So instead of that "warm, natural" sound, you're getting snap, crackle and
pop on digital from an inferior source.

To be fair, some studio albums produced in the past few years ( and even a
few "classic" albums remastered recently) have horrible sounding, maxed out
mixes for cd where you have massive clipping while the vinyl counterpart
sounds much better with no clipping. I agree with you it's silly to use
typical consumer hardware/software to re-encode a vinyl album for digital
format but there *are* some cases where a vinyl record album *does* sound
significantly superior to the cd counterpart.

T.B.


First intelligent, contributory post I think I have ever seen you make.
Congratulations.
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