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Not All iPods — Vinyl and Turntables Gain Sales

Posted by timothy on from the thirty-three-and-a-third dept.

Says the New York Times: "With the curious resurgence of vinyl, a parallel revival has emerged: The turntable, once thought to have taken up obsolescence with eight-track tape players, has been reborn."

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  1. Re:It's because of the ALBUMS! by mcgrew · · Score: 1, Troll

    45s and MP3s are records, albums are collections of records (like your photo album); LPs and CDs are albums.

    album (lbm)
    n.
    1. A book with blank pages for the insertion and preservation of collections, as of stamps or photographs.
    2.
    a. A phonograph record, especially a long-playing record stored in a slipcase.
    b. A set of musical recordings stored together in jackets under one binding.
    c. The bound set of jackets for such a set.
    d. A recording of different musical pieces.
    3. A printed collection of musical compositions, pictures, or literary selections.
    4. A tall, handsomely printed book, popular especially in the 19th century, often having profuse illustrations and short, sentimental texts.

    [Latin, blank tablet, from neuter of albus, white; see albho- in Indo-European roots.]

    I wish you kids would stop redefining common words just to fit your particular views of the world. If you want to know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary. Don't call your dog a "cat" just because you don't know the difference between a cat and a dog.

    And just because a thing sells well doesn't mean it's good, and just because it doesn't sell well doesn't mean it's bad. Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting in his life, and that was to his brother. You couldn't get twenty bucks today for any of the dreck that was in the art galeries in Van Gogh's time. Take an art history class and you'll see how abysmal the art that sold well was.

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  2. Re:Pfft... by mcgrew · · Score: 1, Troll

    You wrote that here in 2004: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/10/8/134958/152. ... the current release of Zep's "Presence" is digitally mastered

    Yes, from the analog source. There wasn't any digital recording when Zeppelin was out, digital didn't start until the very late 1970s.

    Someone else mentioned that Nirvana was digitally mastered; I'm not always correct. I didn't have an analog copy of that album, but the statement was illustrational -- an analog product from a digital master will be inferior to a digital product from a digital master. You still get the advantages of theither and the disadvantages of both.

    If you get ANY LP demonstrating better bass than the corresponding CD, you have a CD made by someone who didn't have a frickin' clue about mastering audio for a CD.

    I wouldn't argue with that. Bass should be a CD's strong point; the deeper the tone, the less aliasing there is.

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