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Re:The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at ... by Symbiote on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:54AM (#43220484)
CDs have better quality than vinyl in every way. If you want the sound of a vinyl, apply the modulation and record the result on a CD.

In practise, popular music recorded on CDs often had poor mastering (see "loudness wars") where the dynamic range was reduced to make the recording sound louder.

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Re:The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at ... by dijksterhuis on Saturday March 01, 2025 @11:02AM (#43220586)
> CDs have better quality than vinyl in every way.

that’s an entirely subjective statement which critically hangs on what “quality” means to the audience.

i don’t agree, but then i’m not limiting myself to define quality in terms of how some signal reproduces sounds.

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Re:The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at ... by sambapa on Saturday March 01, 2025 @11:55AM (#43221157)
That's why some deaf people feel superior
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Re:The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at ... by dijksterhuis on Saturday March 01, 2025 @12:46PM (#43221625)
huh?
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Re:The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at ... by card_zero on Saturday March 01, 2025 @02:11PM (#43222563)
Deaf culture, presumably.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_culture

"Refuge from the grinding frustrations of the hearing world", appreciation of the quality of no sounds, sort of like John Cage's 4'33" but quieter.

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