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To: Mariner
"I buy only albums. Why kids settle for the sh!t sound of digital downloads is baffling to me. It’s unlistenable."

That has more to do with the music and the playback devices. Digital music is not inferior to vinyl. Just the opposite. Mechanical reproduction cannot and does not fully recreate the original sound because of its physical limits.

Studies have shown that you can trick people who prefer vinyl because it's "better" into thinking a digital track is vinyl, by distorting the sound.

19 posted on 05/16/2018 9:40:00 AM PDT by mlo
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To: mlo

If you think MP3 offers superior sound, to either vinyl or CD, more power to you.


20 posted on 05/16/2018 9:49:11 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: mlo

Digital doesn’t HAVE to be inferior to vinyl. But thanks to compression (signal compression to get it on a CD and data compression for MP3) it is.

That sound distortion is to “trick” people into thinking its vinyl mostly revolves around bringing up the bottom to make up for the compression. Which just shows how much the industry has decided it’s OK to ship inferior product.


26 posted on 05/16/2018 11:30:37 AM PDT by discostu (It's been so long, welcome back my friend, to the show, that never ends.)
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