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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."
They aren't talking about that kind of compression, you fucking gibbon.
What a crock of shit. I don't know about what postprocessing people currently choose to use on vinyl but there is definitely no such limitation for the medium.
Any advantage of vinyl over a digital medium is lost due to the fact that the record would be digitally processed before being put to the vinyl. The current CD DATA format has some flaws and that's it.
This is just a bunch of people's wishful thinking. Audiophiles who want better sound who don't understand they'll get it from better digital formats. People who have become confused because they think CD's are actually an attempt to represent true sound in the first place.
RS
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
Welcome to the world of $4000 oxygen-free cables, where people claim that Soviet manufactured vacuum tubes sound better than active electronics, refrigerator-size ribbon speakers sound better than carefully designed waist-high speakers with 12" woofers, and vinyl, yes, that stuff that goes snap crackle pop, shick pop, shick pop, shick pop, shick pop, shick pop, BRRRRRRRPPPPP, sounds better than CDs.
I knew a mutant dude who in his 20s could hear 20 kHz. So vinyl was a good thing for him, at least until he hit his 30s. But aside from the ability to make sounds only dogs and cats and mutant humans can hear, vinyl is shit. So are those goddamn Russian vacuum tubes.
Have the standards for morons slipped drastically while I wasn't paying attention? Or is it just that the ganja from the vinyl section is way, way better.