Amplesamples
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Recently been listening to a lot of dubstep, and since I have a working record deck again, have been buying lots on vinyl.
Now to be honest, the only reason I buy it on vinyl is because I like the whole tactile thing with vinyl and music, and the end product. Given the choice over downloading an mp3 album of 2562 or buying the same on vinyl, I'd plump for the latter.
When reading a lot of stuff about dubstep (I have been obsessing a lot over it at the moment, after discovering and getting into it very slowly), I'm always told about the importance of vinyl, and the claim that bass always comes out better on vinyl over CD or MP3. Is this true?
Given that dubstep is probably produced inside people's computers (inside the digital domain), the fact that it gets transferred to vinyl (going through digital-to-analogue conversion, thus compromising the signal, even with the best equipment) surely adversely affects the end result? Surely CD is a 'purer' medium for a lot of dubstep (and other electronic music)?
MP3 is a compressed aiff or wav file, so I can understand that the quality is lower there. But surely these days, CD is sonically superior to vinyl (even if it is far less cool)?
What do people think?
Now to be honest, the only reason I buy it on vinyl is because I like the whole tactile thing with vinyl and music, and the end product. Given the choice over downloading an mp3 album of 2562 or buying the same on vinyl, I'd plump for the latter.
When reading a lot of stuff about dubstep (I have been obsessing a lot over it at the moment, after discovering and getting into it very slowly), I'm always told about the importance of vinyl, and the claim that bass always comes out better on vinyl over CD or MP3. Is this true?
Given that dubstep is probably produced inside people's computers (inside the digital domain), the fact that it gets transferred to vinyl (going through digital-to-analogue conversion, thus compromising the signal, even with the best equipment) surely adversely affects the end result? Surely CD is a 'purer' medium for a lot of dubstep (and other electronic music)?
MP3 is a compressed aiff or wav file, so I can understand that the quality is lower there. But surely these days, CD is sonically superior to vinyl (even if it is far less cool)?
What do people think?