Russia in color, a century ago

Re:Russia in color, a century ago by robbiep on Sunday September 09, 2012 @07:29PM (#4497450)

This always makes me wonder whether there isn't something about the imperfections from these analog copies (not to mention various analog playback mechanisms) that 'adds' to the richness/perceived value of the music... Perhaps on some level some percentage of us prefer to know that we have a copy of a copy, or some level of imperfection, in our version that we play, vs a straight up 100% clone

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Re:Russia in color, a century ago by sjwright on Monday September 10, 2012 @01:07AM (#4498389)

That's completely fine.

What I object to is the unqualified use of 'better'. You can't claim that vinyl is somehow 'better' when what you mean is that vinyl is perhaps more 'satisfying' on a personal level.

I personally disagree; vinyl's imperfections irritate me just as much as a low bitrate MP3 does.

To me vinyl's upsides are the large cover artwork, and the lack of an easy 'skip' button. Less exiting is the knowledge that every subsequent play will sound worse than the last, even if by a tiny bit.

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Re:Russia in color, a century ago by robbiep on Friday September 14, 2012 @08:47AM (#4521332)

i agree with you about unqualified use of better - I think it applies to lots of areas of technology, and even areas of culture, etc... It would be nice if people were more understanding that a person's opinion on something is in fact influenced by all of their various value judgements and an enormous level of subjectivity; of course given that people in similar networks will have similar experiences and likely hold similar value judgements this leads to the tendency to 'circle jerk' on an issue, and then something becomes 'better'.. The first time they meet someone who doesn't share these judgements a flame war errupts

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