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Dawgz Rule:

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My first thoughts exactly.  My second thought was, "What does this guy do for a living?"  Love the pin collection.
boardjunkie:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on May 30, 2012, 09:49:35 am ---
--- Quote from: DaveMMR on May 29, 2012, 10:44:11 pm ---Whenever possible, I'd take the vinyl over the MP3, the cartridge over the ROM, and an arcade full of original cabinets over MAME anyday.

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Personally I prefer 128KB MP3s and won't even consider downloading VBR or *gasp* 320KB MP3s. 

128 just sounds 'warmer'.



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I sure hope yer kidding....

Even 320s can sound bad. MP3 is the 8 track of this generation....all convenience and no quality.
boardjunkie:
This guy really has the hot setup. Seems like a cool guy to hang out with over some beers. Bonus points for be'n a Pacman freak.

MAME is a nice "workaround" for not having access to the real thing, but the real thing is *always* better. For those of us who played all that stuff when it was fresh on the scene, its a pretty big deal to own it all. Thats part of the reason I got into the amusement industry (back when it still existed), to get the downlow on how to start obtaining the games I wanted to own. Since there was no collector scene back then, just about anything you wanted could be had for chump change or free. It was "junk" to the ops. But I really enjoyed my time as a game repair tech. It was fun while it lasted....
BadMouth:

--- Quote from: boardjunkie on May 31, 2012, 11:57:25 am ---
--- Quote from: pinballjim on May 30, 2012, 09:49:35 am ---
--- Quote from: DaveMMR on May 29, 2012, 10:44:11 pm ---Whenever possible, I'd take the vinyl over the MP3, the cartridge over the ROM, and an arcade full of original cabinets over MAME anyday.

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Personally I prefer 128KB MP3s and won't even consider downloading VBR or *gasp* 320KB MP3s. 

128 just sounds 'warmer'.



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I sure hope yer kidding....

Even 320s can sound bad. MP3 is the 8 track of this generation....all convenience and no quality.

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Everything sounds bad now, no matter what the format.  There's no dynamic range anymore.  It's all mixed to sound loud on an ipod.
boardjunkie:
Ya got that right. Even the 30 year old CD standard wasn't all that great. 44.1khz sampling just kinda guesses above 15k or so. You only end up with a sample or 2...not much to go on.

DVD audio coulda been the "fix" for it, but MP3 had already begun its tenure and 90% of "music fans" didn't care about the increase in sound quality, so it died quietly. Damn shame...

I used to transfer vinyl to quarter inch tape (3M 226) on a Revox A77. Now *that* was quality sound.
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