• Vinyl record sales hit 18-year high
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[QUOTE=sirdownloadsalot;46610723]I'm not arguing that :v: Digital sampling is much higher quality, as I've said before in this thread.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=sirdownloadsalot;46609868][t]http://www.electronicproducts.com/uploadedImages/Digital_ICs/Video_Graphics_Audio/1.png[/t][/QUOTE] Then...what does this image have to do with anything?
[QUOTE=Splarg!;46610743]Then...what does this image have to do with anything?[/QUOTE] Its just about how computers process music. An analog soundwave is etched into vinyl identical to the original, while computers use binary data, which is formed of blocks. They're just two different ways of processing music and there's no real audible difference between them.
[QUOTE=sirdownloadsalot;46609868][t]http://www.electronicproducts.com/uploadedImages/Digital_ICs/Video_Graphics_Audio/1.png[/t] All digital formats compress audio into binary form. It gives you a more perfectly clean audio, but vinyls do have a smoother sound to them. It's just how computers work dude.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=sirdownloadsalot;46610765]They're just two different ways of processing music and [b]there's no real audible difference between them.[/b][/QUOTE] ???????
I'll be honest, I own the MP3s for all my vinyl (I have a box of old rock, mostly Zeppelin), and I don't even own a turntable. What does that say about me?
[QUOTE=sirdownloadsalot;46609868][t]http://www.electronicproducts.com/uploadedImages/Digital_ICs/Video_Graphics_Audio/1.png[/t] All digital formats compress audio into binary form. It gives you a more perfectly clean audio, but vinyls do have a smoother sound to them. It's just how computers work dude.[/QUOTE] there's this fancy little chip in your computer called a DAC that fixes that problem
[QUOTE=sirdownloadsalot;46609868][t]http://www.electronicproducts.com/uploadedImages/Digital_ICs/Video_Graphics_Audio/1.png[/t] All digital formats compress audio into binary form. It gives you a more perfectly clean audio, but vinyls do have a smoother sound to them. It's just how computers work dude.[/QUOTE] No, please watch Xiph's "Digital Show & Tell". It goes over "stair stepping" [vid]http://downloads.xiph.org/video/Digital_Show_and_Tell-720p.webm[/vid] [url]https://www.xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml[/url]
[QUOTE=sirdownloadsalot;46610401]Most modern music producers now a days use digital recording methods. So when they release Vinyl, it's made from flac file or some other uncompressed audio format. But there are still music producers who use tapes and non-digital formats when releasing vinyl albums.[/QUOTE] no actual professional will touch flac, WMA (lossless) and WAV is king in the studio world
[QUOTE=sirdownloadsalot;46609868][t]http://www.electronicproducts.com/uploadedImages/Digital_ICs/Video_Graphics_Audio/1.png[/t] All digital formats compress audio into binary form. It gives you a more perfectly clean audio, but vinyls do have a smoother sound to them. It's just how computers work dude.[/QUOTE] this image is basically useless. Humans can only perceive so much
[QUOTE=sirdownloadsalot;46609868][t]http://www.electronicproducts.com/uploadedImages/Digital_ICs/Video_Graphics_Audio/1.png[/t] All digital formats compress audio into binary form. It gives you a more perfectly clean audio, but vinyls do have a smoother sound to them. It's just how computers work dude.[/QUOTE] do you even know what a DAC does??? if something digital plays sound it has a DAC
I like buying vinyls on amazon because you get the MP3 downloads too.
[QUOTE=Handsome Matt;46584975]hipsters[/QUOTE] Disgusting. I love myself a vinyl as not only does it make quite the art on the shelf, The sound quality, even tho' I buy them second-hand, is still absolutely amazing, And in the end of the day, I encode the files off the vinyl to MP3's so I can hear it's glorious quality on my phone as well.
Why can't a novelty be revived without getting called "hipster" or "pointless"? A badly compressed CD will sound worse compared to a brand new vinyl remaster, and vice-versa for records ,as well. But regardless I enjoy vinyl more because it's [I]fun[/I].
[QUOTE=Incoming.;46613179]Why can't a novelty be revived without getting called "hipster" or "pointless"? A badly compressed CD will sound worse compared to a brand new vinyl remaster, and vice-versa for records ,as well. But regardless I enjoy vinyl more because it's [I]fun[/I].[/QUOTE] Because fuck you for having fun, that's why. Now go back to your corner and put a box on your head.
[QUOTE=hydrated;46611054]no actual professional will touch flac, WMA (lossless) and WAV is king in the studio world[/QUOTE] FLAC is lossless. You're right in that they probably wouldn't bother using FLAC to reduce the file size by 20-40% because storage is so cheap, but the quality would be identical if they did.
[QUOTE=sirdownloadsalot;46609868][t]http://www.electronicproducts.com/uploadedImages/Digital_ICs/Video_Graphics_Audio/1.png[/t] All digital formats compress audio into binary form. It gives you a more perfectly clean audio, but vinyls do have a smoother sound to them. It's just how computers work dude.[/QUOTE] this is literally not perceivable, and nobody who knows anything about digital audio listens to vinyls because of "superior sound quality", in fact vinyls often sound warmer because it is physically not possible to record certain bass sounds like a thump or thud on a vinyl record
[QUOTE=Zeke129;46613333]FLAC is lossless. You're right in that they probably wouldn't bother using FLAC to reduce the file size by 20-40% because storage is so cheap, but the quality would be identical if they did.[/QUOTE] lossless compression just doesn't add noise. the quality is the same but it still has problems. the major problem with flac is that until recently almost nothing supported it
I collect vinyl yet I don't have a turntable :v:
[QUOTE=Eric95;46603963]yeah and then you put it your cd player and don't see it while it plays what's the point then[/QUOTE] There's a few really nice players that have glass fronts where you can see the spinning disc, then there's [url=http://i00.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v0/376373244/Shanling-font-b-CD-b-font-T100MKII-font-b-Vacuum-b-font-font-b-Tube-b.jpg]the audiophile ones[/url] where the drive just has a metal weight that sits over the spindle to keep the disc in place. I knew someone once who had a CD that had a series of black and white stripes that circled the disc. They looked like timing marks. In a way they are. As the laser tracks across the disc the disc speed changes. As that happened the rings of black and white bars went in or out of sync and acted like some were spinning one way while others were spinning the other direction and would be constantly changing.
I would love to collect vinyl just to frame it and hang it on my wall.
[QUOTE=pentium;46617795]There's a few really nice players that have glass fronts where you can see the spinning disc, then there's [url=http://i00.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v0/376373244/Shanling-font-b-CD-b-font-T100MKII-font-b-Vacuum-b-font-font-b-Tube-b.jpg]the audiophile ones[/url] where the drive just has a metal weight that sits over the spindle to keep the disc in place. I knew someone once who had a CD that had a series of black and white stripes that circled the disc. They looked like timing marks. In a way they are. As the laser tracks across the disc the disc speed changes. As that happened the rings of black and white bars went in or out of sync and acted like some were spinning one way while others were spinning the other direction and would be constantly changing.[/QUOTE] But really, who would buy that?
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