People who actually listen to the music and has a good [meaning very expensive] sound setup to play LPs never rushed to switch to the oh-so-shiny digital disks or any other form of artificial depiction of a song. The nature is analog.


The sound difference between CD and vinyl may be questionable, but it is a fact vinyl has no DRM infections...

Vinyl records shouldn't sound better than CDs but all too often they do. Its not the medium, though, its the mastering. I thought this was nonsense until I replaced my copy of "Abbey Road" -- a CD made from a very old piece of vinyl -- with a proper CD. The difference was immediately noticeable, the real CD sounds nasty. You notice it on high quality kit, not so much with earbuds. Since CDs can't distort the sound (although some cheap players are a bit suspect) the conclusion is that they were carelessly mastered. This figures; cutting a vinyl recording requires a lot of TLC, you can't just fire and forget, so what's going on that disc will be what's acceptable to a trained pair of ears.

So don't laugh. A lot of CDs are crap. They shouldn't be, but they are.

LP sales are up because they play on any turn table and don't install root kits. ;)

Cheers,
John

...You wouldn't want to see how they're made.

I saw a TV show showing how they make LPs these days. The technicians loaded up the blank, arragned the cutting machine, and then tap a few keys ON HIS PC (!) to play back the (probably CD-quality, perhaps MP3...) audio file into the cutter.

"Better sound quality" my ass.


What?!? Are these people delusional?

But then, these are probably the same people that think that politicians are your friends and you can trust the government.

Oh, and that the Inq is a respectable news journal :)