Vinyl Vs Digital

I come up the days of 8track, LPs, Cassettes .. The very first song I heard on CD was Pink Floyd Fearless- I had just purchased the latest pioneer stereo..
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must of been my virgin ears, speaker placement or whatever it was. I remember the CD sound was a cosmic euphoria. I was just blown away by it. no hiss, noticeable air, snaps, pops. But somehow in very short time I hated the CD, the very first scratch was stuck on stupid. I had record albums that had scratches but they would keep playing over the pop. What else I noticed that the CD wasnt the sound I enjoyed the most of, because for the longest time I had boom box radios with either 1 speaker or 2 speakers .. I was use to listening to that simple system in the yard and now Im tied up inside a house -pttf 150watt stereo just wasnt the same. now we have a surround sound tv, and my other stereos are really not that important to me .. Im content with the desktop speakers and my guitar amps. Its rare I even sit in the livingroom watching a movie , if so I tend to go with the VHS instead of the DVD...

 

of course with digital you're never going to be able to reproduce the signal 100% accurately, just a very close approximation since the signal is more or less samples at discreet intervals. CDs sample at 44.1kHz which is above the nyquist rate and places any quantization noise outside of the human range of hearing anyway.

analog would be perfect only if you could perfectly reproduce that signal with 100% accuracy. in a realistic world, a good digital recording is going to be far more accurate than an analog one.

just in case anyone is wondering, im not talking about mp3 files or any other lossy codec that throws away entropy from the signal to increase compression rate. i am however, pretty amazed that these algorithms are actually as good as they are but i prefer the recording with all that so called imperceivable audio left in the signal. lossless codecs like FLAC are just as good as a CD or whatever source they came from since they don't throw any of the signal away and simply compress the file in a similar manner to other data compression algorithms like zip/gzip/bzip2/lzma, however FLAC and other lossless audio formats are more efficient than these algorithsm since they are designed and optimized for audio data specifically.

 

do it. i mean i did it out of habit because i tend to buy the same thing, a lot, for slight artwork differences.

i have a heap of dvds and cds never opened because i have the original already and it was either just a re-release, or an artowork variation. I realised thi was a waste of money so i catalogue all those sorts of things dvds, cds, vinyl so i don't buy the same thing twice.

 

Just remember me when you think of throwing them out

Love the combi of black metal, CCR and the Doors, Sabbath and Jimi :cheers2: That's a music collection I could have too (well I have, but not on vinyl)

Btw: I did already claim the worthy records of my parents and it includes that Meatloaf album too Best stuff are the lp's from my mom though, which include british folk rock like the Pentangle, Steeleye Span and Fairport convention. Magna Carta - Lord of the ages. Freaking love that stuff, especially the Pentangle's first 3 albums...

My own self bought vinyl includes mostly stoner rock from 2000-2010, a lot of swedish stuff: Dead Man, Siena Root, Greenleaf. But also Orange Sunshine (one of my fav dutch bands), Dzjenghis Khan, Nebula, first 2 Atomic Bitchwax albums. Just listing my favs of course

 

Yes my parents also have vinyl I want to claim ASAP when the time comes.
I think a lot of people are waiting for that opportunity.

 

I just finished cataloging my LPs. I created a Filemaker database. My collection has 317 LPs, almost all in excellent condition. The oldest one is from 1962 (Peter, Paul, and Mary) and the newest one is from 1987 (Tunnel Of Love, Springsteen). The rarest one is probably Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka (1971).

PM me if you would like to see the list.