The only reason vinyl wasn't scrapped altogether in 1987 ...
A good vinyl pressing played on my half-decent deck sounds better than CD
in my ears. We are talking normal "What Hifi" type of kit - not "Audiophile".
One of those heavyweight hi-fi magazines recently did some testing -
vinyl versus SACD and DVD-audio (the new "super CD" formats).
Vinyl still came out tops.
CD/MP3 - sure more convenient and portable and all that. And good enough. But not better.
Much like photography - digital cameras are good
enough and very convenient, but analogue ones are still better.
HowStuffWorks has some simple stuff on this -
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question487.htm
Do we really have to return to battery-guzzling machines
The exact reason I have never bought a laptop. A computer with 2 hours battery life?
What's the point?
ps anyone have that record by pete shelley, rushen production xl1 which had a zxspectrum game. you had to tape it off the vinyl onto a cassette and sync it up with the record
XL-1. Sure - I can tape it from vinyl to MiniDisc to MP3 and send it to you so you can convert from MP3 to
casette to play it on your Spectrum ... ;-)
MiniDiscs - still have two working Panasonic MDs. The problem with the first one was the remote
cable, wear and tear (it would have to be military spec to not be worn out).
The second one is still going strong though after 3 years of heavy use (although I do have one of
these white things I carry iRound now - but I absolutely refuse to wear those white headphones.).
Also on MD - I reckon they might be very good for "field recordings" - much like DAT in the olden days.
A couple of times lately (last seeing Moebius/Roedelius) I wish I was that guy in the movie "Diva".
I met a guy at Fabric (the Norwegian gig, not the grime-do) who
said that his "private MD recording" of Molvær live was much better than "Streamer", MP3 recordings are still crap from what I read compared to MD.
Sony basically killed the MD format themselves, a useless corporation - bound to get even
worse with their new Welsh chairman. Not because he is Welsh, just because he comes
from the content division (read DRM) - not the electronics division within Sony ...