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Re:The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at ... by BoingBoomTschak on Saturday March 01, 2025 @02:03PM (#43222467)
Those are details not improving the music itself; even if cool auxiliary aspects, sometimes. You can listen to full albums intently even when using a digital system. In fact, do you truly care if you have to be physically constrained into doing so?

I'll sound very smug, but so be it: this is a trap very easy to fall in. Are you a "proper" christian if you only are because you fear hell? Do you care about software freedom if you had to be spoonfed baby duck software that looks and feels just like Windows to switch?

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Re:The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at ... by dylan604 on Saturday March 01, 2025 @08:09PM (#43226011)
Nothing I said implied improving the music, so I have no idea why you're trying to make the connection. The point I was making is that vinyl is about the medium. The physical nature of constantly changing the record means you're more involved.

I specifically said that claiming it to be a "better sound" is not what I like about vinyl.

So to be very smug, your second graph is absolutely pointless since you've missed the point of the comment you replied

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Re:The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at ... by BoingBoomTschak on Sunday March 02, 2025 @05:41AM (#43229152)
No, I didn't miss anything. If you need to be forced by a physical routine to be "involved", do you truly care about music? Why?
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