[lmilhan]

Vinyl fans may have a reason to get excited!

Interesting article.

I am still trying to talk myself into getting a decent Vinyl rig, but main problem is that most of the music I like just isn't available on Vinyl. Maybe that will change one day soon...

I will not hold my breath.

 

[JadeEast]

CDS WILL NOT GO WITHOUT A PHIGHT!!

 

[ericj]

I'm pretty sure i read almost the exact same article 10 years ago.

 

[lmilhan]

Quote:

Originally Posted by JadeEast /img/forum/go_quote.gif CDS WILL NOT GO WITHOUT A PHIGHT!!

LOL, that's classic!

 

[stewtheking]

Damn, now I need to clean the coffee out of my keyboard. That was a lol, for sure. Love it.

 

[Zanth]

I read this article and throughouth I kept nodding my head in agreement.

So many indie lables that I enjoy, have a nice code to allow me a one-time-use downloading of the album at 192 and sometimes FLAC "free" with the purchase of the LP. This works for me perfectly as I get to have the album on my DAP, get the vinyl I so love and heck if I REALLY want to, I can burn a CD (particularly if it is FLAC). I get to have the music completely at my fingertips however I want it whenever I want it.

As an "anti-theft-device" vinyl is the best format, even though technically it would not be protecting theft, but copyright infringement...but regardless, with the legitimate coupon for a legitimate download...everyone would be happy!

Still, I doubt many want to go back to vinyl. It's big, bulky, heavy and cumbersome. It does sound awesome though so if more bands are willing to go that route, I'm in for sure.

 

[Rock&Roll Ninja]

In 2043 my grandchildren will be all-a-tither about a new music format. It will be smaller than vinyl, its "laser" will not damage the medium like a needle, and it will be able to skip between cuts with the press of a button.

 

[Trippytiger]

And we'll all throw away our calculators for abacuses too!

 

[goldenratiophi]

Maybe they can put the lousy compressed masterings on the vinyl and the "audiophile" masterings on CDs/SACDs

 

[Arjisme]

Here's the Slashdot discussion about that article.

 

[FalconP]

Quote:

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: It's the so-called loudness war. Since the audio on vinyl can't be compressed to such extremes, records generally offer a more nuanced sound.

This is nonsense. The sound, which these days is almost always recorded digitally, are subjected to compression before it is pressed onto a carrying medium. Whether the medium is CD or vinyl makes no difference.

 

[ericj]

Quote:

Originally Posted by FalconP /img/forum/go_quote.gif This is nonsense. The sound, which these days is almost always recorded digitally, are subjected to compression before it is pressed onto a carrying medium. Whether the medium is CD or vinyl makes no difference.

Just more evidence that the author has no flippin idea what he's talking about.

 

[Sarchi]

It's pretty hard to extrapolate anything from the 'stats' put forth in that article. Maybe there's a global "trend", maybe not. In 2000, there were between 100,000 and 130,000 records listed on eBay at any given time. Today that number is consistently over 150,000. If I had to bet, I'd wager that the increase is largely coming from Asian markets, especially China (lately).

There's no shortage of vinyl if you're into it -- unless you want current classical releases, then forget it. If you want to tell me that Wal*Mart is gonna drop CD's and stock vinyl, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in...

 

[FalconP]

The trend I see is that teeny-boop idols -- the kind of people as far away from music as imaginable -- are putting out collector-edition vinyls. Whether their target customers own vinyl decks is, of course, beside the point.

 

[LawnGnome]

How many people into the indie scene will own decent vinyl rigs?