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Vinyl To Signal the End for CDs?
PJ1216 writes to mention that vinyl seems poised to make a comeback in the music industry. Some are even predicting that this comeback coupled with the surge in digital music sales could possibly close the door on CDs. "Portability is no longer any reason to stick with CDs, and neither is audio quality. Although vinyl purists are ripe for parody, they're right about one thing: Records can sound better than CDs. Although CDs have a wider dynamic range, mastering houses are often encouraged to compress the audio on CDs to make it as loud as possible: It's the so-called loudness war. Since the audio on vinyl can't be compressed to such extremes, records generally offer a more nuanced sound. Another reason for vinyl's sonic superiority is that no matter how high a sampling rate is, it can never contain all of the data present in an analog groove, Nyquist's theorem to the contrary."
Forget vinyl - when can we get things recorded in Analog to Water?
Plus, when you're done listening to it, you can make Ramen noodles with Skwisgaar's solos, or maybe even coffee with Toki's Rhythm Guitar parts...
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...8 tracks are due to make a comeback in 5 years
In 3, 2, 1...
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Not until laptops come with a vinyl drive.
Not exactly; that's just a byproduct of their desire to replace all of the Mac's transistors with tubes.
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As I understand it, your dynamic range on a CD is proportionate to the depth (and thus width) of the groove. The wider the groove, the less audio you can fit on one disk.
Or crap cables (i.e. below $5,000).
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Actually, the sound is affected by quantum interactions between the atoms of the record needle and the atoms of the vinyl, and if you used an electron microscope, you'd be altering the quantum properties of the vinyl, forever destroying the pureness of the music :)
I can't wait to play Bioshock off an analog vinyl disk. I'll bet the graphics will be AWESOME.
Property is theft.
As we know from the excellent Spinal Tap documentary - loudness on analogue signals can be pushed to 11 (possibly further). We sometimes forget that CDs being digital can not pass 1.
And often overlooked fact.
I am not fucking going to replace my entire music collection yet again. I bought vinyl albums first. Was smart enough to skip the eight-track mistake. Then I went to cassette. Now I have CDs. I've paid for my music three times. More if you count the vinyl albums I had to replace become of excessive wear (Dark Side of the Moon never gets old!).
This is an evil plot by the RIAA to extract more money from us. They finally realized that we aren't buying the shit they try to pass off as music these days, so they looked at the income history, realized the switch to CDs was their biggest financial windfall ever, and are trying to repeat it.
I'm not falling for it. It's time we go string up some of those bastards! Get a rope and meet me in front of their office.
Hey, even if I'm wrong about the reason is no reason to not lynch those bastards. Let's do it. It'll be a hoot.
-- Will program for bandwidth
... for wax cylinders.
Have gnu, will travel.
"Even if your vinyl lasts forever each playing of it destroys part of the original recording."
If only this were true...I'd buy every Styx LP in existence and play them non-stop.
If moderation could change anything, it would be illegal.
Ever try to cut a line of coke on a vinyl cover?