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Ginsu Victim:

--- Quote from: RayB on August 26, 2008, 04:30:29 pm ---No hiss and pops on a new record. Play it on a laser turntable and you'll NEVER get any wear.


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They make LASER ones?!?

CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 26, 2008, 04:44:10 pm ---Why are you guys letting jim troll you again?

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Because you've been slacking ...

DaveMMR:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on August 26, 2008, 04:07:39 pm ---Oh yeah, vinyl's awesome.  Lots of hiss and popping.  Just great.  No loss of fidelity AT ALL.

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It's not a problem if you give even a minimum amount of care. Maybe you should try cleaning your records before playing them.   ;)   Storing them properly helps too!


--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on August 26, 2008, 04:48:04 pm ---They make LASER ones?!?

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Yes they do, but they are expensive.  Personally, I'll stick with the stylus until I win a lottery or something.

Level42, where do you buy your current release vinyl?  I usually go online to find them (my latest and favorite acquisition: Nirvana's Nevermind) but I see prices are getting a little out of hand for what I used to get for the price of a CD.  

There was a Virgin Megastore in my area near the mall (Westbury for you LI-ers) but they closed down.  They had lots of good recent releases on vinyl.  

DaveMMR:
Modern recordings that were mastered for CDs sounding better on vinyl?  Get real.

Modern recordings recorded digitally also exhibit limitations.   I pulled the ole "Bob Dylan" argument out before...

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/08/71636

...but it makes sense. 

But whatever, Jim.  If you dislike vinyl, whatever.  Have a nice day. 

Edgedamage:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on August 26, 2008, 04:07:39 pm ---Oh yeah, vinyl's awesome.  Lots of hiss and popping.  Just great.  No loss of fidelity AT ALL.



Get out of the 70s.  Being in love with vinyl isn't even retro-cool anymore.



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Maybe if you worked in professional audio you would know what you were talking about. You must pay Saint some good cash to still be here, any other forums you would have been tossed on your ass 2651 posts ago.
"The resurgence of vinyl centers on a long-standing debate over analog versus digital sound. Digital recordings capture samples of sound and place them very close together as a complete package that sounds nearly identical to continuous sound to many people.
Analog recordings on most LPs are continuous, which produces a truer sound -- though, paradoxically, some new LP releases are being recorded and mixed digitally but delivered analog."

"A digital recording is not capturing the complete sound wave. It is approximating it with a series of steps. Some sounds that have very quick transitions, such as a drum beat or a trumpet's tone, will be distorted because they change too quickly for the sample rate.
In your home stereo the CD or DVD player takes this digital recording and converts it to an analog signal, which is fed to your amplifier. The amplifier then raises the voltage of the signal to a level powerful enough to drive your speaker.
A vinyl record has a groove carved into it that mirrors the original sound's waveform. This means that no information is lost. The output of a record player is analog. It can be fed directly to your amplifier with no conversion. This means that the waveforms from a vinyl recording can be much more accurate, and that can be heard in the richness of the sound. But there is a downside, any specks of dust or damage to the disc can be heard as noise or static. During quiet spots in songs this noise may be heard over the music. Digital recordings don't degrade over time, and if the digital recording contains silence, then there will be no noise."

Like it or not as soon as you convert analog to digital you loose information. But PJ you are smarter than everyone here so I will just walk it off.

PS. For the record I do work in a professional audio environment.

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