I’d rather shoot them with a .45.
And they still mail them out–I got one yesterday, in fact.
Because we back then we’d all thrown out our turntables. And I don’t think a dwarf disk could hold the entire the “1812 Overture,” or “Inagodadavida.”
78s begat the 33 1/3, begat the 45, begat the 8-track, begat the cassette, begat the CD, begat DVD, begat the MP3, begat the blue ray…
We gotta keep America’s planned obsolescence going here, buddy!
So, Austin Powers wasn’t really confused when he tried to play that CD on the turntable? He was actually ahead of his time?
Cute. But even though I still have a turntable, it’s a legacy medium, rather than something I really want to keep. If the LP Fairy would appear and magically convert my hundreds of LPs and my handful of 45-RPM singles to MP3’s for me, I’d be happy to toss the turntable and the phonograph records.
This is what I always wanted to do with them.
Endless fun for small children: put them in the microwave for a few seconds.*
JRB
*Adult supervision recommended. Not responsible for damage to microwave incurred during this activity.
The thing of it is that even with all of our advancements in the audio medium over the years, we’ve only really moved backward in quality as we moved forward in convenience. The LP remains the pinnacle of audio sound quality, and the closest that we’ve managed to come since has been DAT.
Oh, Bosh!
You can say it as often as you like, but that will never make it true.
Appar…POP…ly it’s beecrackle a while sihissssce you’ve list…POP to acrack LP.
Sorry, but it is. The Lp is an actual cut of the waveform; it is the music. All digital medium is merely a digital representation of the wave form. Admittedly a poorly cared for LP on a cheap turntable will sound like garbage. Give me an EAR reference, Teres, Redpoint, VPI, Krell, etc. with a new record and Grado cartridge and it will walk all over anything digital out there.
Of course electronics factor in and speakers as well, but I’ve never found, IME, that this was a debate at all.
No, it isn’t. It’s merely an analog approximation of it. And not even a particularly good one at that.
Well, I can see that this will end up in GD.
The groove in an LP is no more an “actual cut” of the waveform than the pits on a CD. The audio signal has been transformed by the microphone, pre-amp, mixer, equalizer, power amp, cutter head, etc. just because it’s analog, that doesn’t mean it’s superior. All my listening experience has shown that CDs are not only more rugged, but better sounding also.
Although CDs have a wider dynamic range, mastering houses are often encouraged to compress the audio on CDs to make it as loud as possible. Since the audio on vinyl can’t be compressed to such extremes, records generally offer a more nuanced sound.
Another reason for vinyl’s sonic superiority is that no matter how high a sampling rate is, it can never contain all of the data present in an analog groove, Nyquist’s theorem to the contrary.
And I’d be more than happy to continue this in another thread if someone would like. I think I’ve hijacked this one enough.
The analog groove in an LP is similarly limited in its information-carrying capacity for the simple reason that you cannot have an infinitely thin groove. In addition, stereo recordings on vinyl have terrible crosstalk issues in the recording medium itself, whereas a digital recording can have absolutely perfect channel separation. Both media have some degree of crosstalk inherent in the playback circuitry.
You need a large microwave, or a small child.