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I think that they are not as reliable as they were originally claimed to be
i find that very worrying as i been ripping cds at variable bit rate and not as wavs. will try to find some links on the subject.
I think that they are not as reliable as they were originally claimed to be
It may well be that I'm lying to myself that I like that kind of thing to make myself feel better (though really it's not as bad as all that is it?). Ultimately, for a reason I can't really understand or articulate, I prefer vinyl and any reasons I do give are probably just post-justification or whatever you want to call it. I certainly don't proselytize for vinyl because I have no arguments for it being better."I'm not a big fan of sound degradation on vinyl (it does my head in that every time I play something, I'm making things worse for the next listen). Nor DUST."
slightly OT, but as a media how reliable are cds over long periods of time ? do they deteriorate ?
What genres explicity cater to Collectors?
Certainly industrial music does with all its "box set edition of 555 copies, with bonus 10 inch disc including recordings of the producer going to the toilet in a tibetan monsastery" hype.
IDM seems to in some forms, also black metal?
Certainly industrial music does with all its "box set edition of 555 copies, with bonus 10 inch disc including recordings of the producer going to the toilet in a tibetan monsastery" hype.
Definitely, isn't that why more people go to gigs (and pay more for the privilege), to "own" the experience of being there?"I think in the days of myspace there will still be people who want to own stuff that nobody else has - "
I'm not a big fan of sound degradation on vinyl (it does my head in that every time I play something, I'm making things worse for the next listen). Nor DUST.
Then get yourself one of those turntables that reads records by laser - no physical contact between the disc and the read mechanism!
No idea how much they cost, though.
I had to buy copies of that for three people - should have kept a few for myself..."this Malcolm Catto record came out in late March and people are already selling it for 2 or 3 times the retail price on the internet..."
I'm not a big fan of sound degradation on vinyl (it does my head in that every time I play something, I'm making things worse for the next listen). Nor DUST.
I think that they are not as reliable as they were originally claimed to be - but wasn't there some story about how you could increase their life expectancy by refrigerating them or something (even as I write that it sounds like bollocks)?
Re: record collectors. There's a chapter in Evan Eisenberg's The Recording Angel about an old guy who has spent so much on records over the years he can no longer afford to eat and lives in pitiful squalor in a house that creaks with the weight of tons of vinyl. Once he has acquired them though, he's happy to give them away to people. He refuses to sell any. Fascinating, if also sad.
Would there not be wear and tear from photons smashing against the vinyl?