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geomartin:


--- Quote from: vanrose72 on May 31, 2012, 04:32:41 pm ---I hope this guy's arcade isn't eventually taken down by his significant other (à la Peter Hirschberg's wife).  :'(

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From the looks of this guy (age and demeanor), my guess would be he's already had a first wife, learned his lesson, and pre-nupped this one.  God I hope so!

molton:


--- Quote from: DaveMMR on June 01, 2012, 12:15:45 am ---Who spends a fortune on vinyl? I get great stuff for next to nothing (sometimes free) and new vinyl is often the same price as a CD...

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a fortune on the rent for the warehouse you'd need to have a vinyl collection equal to your average hard drive full of mp3's.

mp3's and mame cabinets are for all us struggling in the lower middle class who haven't lost our minds.

DaveMMR:


--- Quote from: molton on June 01, 2012, 08:06:00 am ---
--- Quote from: DaveMMR on June 01, 2012, 12:15:45 am ---Who spends a fortune on vinyl? I get great stuff for next to nothing (sometimes free) and new vinyl is often the same price as a CD...

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a fortune on the rent for the warehouse you'd need to have a vinyl collection equal to your average hard drive full of mp3's.

mp3's and mame cabinets are for all us struggling in the lower middle class who haven't lost our minds.

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A warehouse? An Ikea bookcase will hold more records than most people would ever listen to. Maybe a milk rate for smaller collections. Bags Unlimited even sells some sturdy boxes. 

Yes, you will always hold more on a harddrive, but at what point are you having songs on your computer that never get played?  I only have 40 Gigs of music on my drive and I feel that half of it coul be erased and I wouldn't notice. That's the main problem; media has been devalued when there's no effort in obtaining it and it's intangible.

It's like roms. Saying you have 5000 games is really nothing to brag about; anyone can have that. Show me 50 original arcade machines, and it's intimately more interesting and rewarding.

But I'm not downing MP3s or MAME. I use them both lots and love. But a physical collection and digital files are very different.





molton:


--- Quote from: DaveMMR on June 01, 2012, 08:27:25 am ---...Saying you have 5000 games is really nothing to brag about...
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that is f**king beautiful.  That is why roms and mp3's are great, 100 games, 5000 games, who cares, it's just information.

boardjunkie:


--- Quote from: molton on May 31, 2012, 08:22:54 pm ---first of all digital music is still heard in it's analog form, it's not like we hear a bunch of high pitched noise that we convert to music in our brains.

that being said, 128kbps mp3s sure do have that vintage 1996 sound too them  :lol



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Digital "music" is an approximation of analog. Once you chop it all up, throw some of it out the window, then convert it back to analog....its not the same. MP3 throws a *ton* out the window, so you end up with something that really has little in common with the analog source material. FLAC is an improvement, but hardly optimal.

I have good ears and have been a musician all my life. I can tell the difference. Most people can't, and this is why we have the whole digital format(s) today. Convenience over quality always wins.....cassettes and 8 tracks are past examples of this trend.

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