Re:Sony plans to make vinyl records again
by bitJericho on Friday June 30, 2017 @01:25PM
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I agree, for sure. That said, there's a lot to be said about listening to an entire album. I'm a huge fan of CDs for this reason. It's a good mix of Vinyl vs Digital. I know I'm getting perfect, uncompressed digital audio. My setup is designed for involved listening if I want it, and I do that mostly with CDs, rather than records. At the same time, if I want something new, or a cd I don't have, I just put on Spotify. There's no reason why you can't have it all.
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I'm a huge fan of CDs for this reason. I know I'm getting perfect, uncompressed digital audio.
Ah, but you don't know! On Beck's Odelay Deluxe Edition release, for example, there are at least two tracks that came from a lossy source.
I don't think it's something that happens often. But through some combination of factors it has happened before, and probably happens more often than people might be aware.
Re:Sony plans to make vinyl records again
by bitJericho on Friday June 30, 2017 @03:52PM
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True. There's also issues with volume and with analog to digital conversions. But even still, almost any cd is better than it's analog equivalent in just about every measure.
Certainly true. Even some of the earliest CD masters are still very good, relatively. By most standards it took a fairly short amount of time for CD audio to reach a high standard for quality (loudness wars aside).