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Amestafuu (Emeritus) said:
People believing Vinly sounds better didn't start with the youngins. I was going to all Vinly parties in the 2000's. People can hear and most importantly feel the difference. Studies done on the best format to preserve music for future generations concluded that Vinly would be used to make what will essentially be vaults of music for future humans.

The nostalgia element came late with the hipsters. For the novelty and the cover art but the quality is why it stayed...

Hell we used to go to parties back in the day and you could tell when the DJ was spinning vinyl from the sound system even when they didn't advertise it. It's something you can feel, especially in the low end. Hence why people say it sounds warm. Sound is waves.
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Appreciate the history lesson. I don't have any qualms about Vinyl and I hope it prospers and continues to live on forever. I was speaking from a technical standpoint and why I feel like it's popular today. I'm not entrenched enough with the medium to argue about it. I gathered from what I've heard from audiophiles is that the warm sound was distortion or "coloring" to the record. From my understanding, the CD is more flat-sounding audio because it doesn't have those distortions.
 
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N*E*R*D said:
Appreciate the history lesson. I don't have any qualms about Vinyl and I hope it prospers and continues to live on forever. I was speaking from a technical standpoint and why I feel like it's popular today. I'm not entrenched enough with the medium to argue about it. I gathered from what I've heard from audiophiles is that the warm sound was distortion or "coloring" to the record. From my understanding, the CD is more flat-sounding audio because it doesn't have those distortions.
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yes cd's can sound flat but they also are still less compressed than digital files.

i grew up on tapes and the sound of tapes was also dope but they deteriorate basically with every listen while cd's retain their sound quality.

I notice some people talk about 90's boom bap having no bass and that has to do a lot with how we listen to it today. listening to 90's hip hop on tapes hits different. The way the drums came through you didn't need a lot of bass. On the flip side you couldn't put 808's and subs as loud as they do today on old formats because they would take up a lot of the dynamic space. we really have to jack up the low end nowadays to "feel" it. there's a science to why low end reverberates different in the analogue realm. i can't really explain it well.
 
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Amestafuu (Emeritus) said:
compact disc was never king it was a default winner.

if it's so great then why did vinyl make a resurgence? it's def better than compressed digital formats.

yes bluetooth is not capable of hitting true peak listening quality and i still use wired headphones as a result.

vinyl def sounds better.
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when the last time somebody played vinyl in the car

also the problem is they degrade each time you play it so you rarely want to play your good records, tapes were better than CDS, but the CD doesn't degrade its only unplayable if its get scratched up, tapes degrade over time and lose quality the more you play them because they get worn out

same with vinyl if you play the record a lot it would wear out that's why people mainly just collect them and not use them as a primary source to play music
 
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when the last time somebody played vinyl in the car

also the problem is they degrade each time you play it so you rarely want to play your good records, tapes were better than CDS, but the CD doesn't degrade its only unplayable if its get scratched up, tapes degrade over time and lose quality the more you play them because they get worn out

same with vinyl if you play the record a lot it would wear out that's why people mainly just collect them and not use them as a primary source to play music
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i called cd's a default winner because they were the most convenient. every format had it's issue. scratching and skipping? :skip:

when cd format first came out it was rejected by a lot of people because of the thin sound. took them a long time to get cd mastering down right in order to convert audio lovers. people bought tapes well into the 90's
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a lot of people dont have good setups anyway, so they cant hear a difference. also, vinyl can be better than CD for music that has a lot of physical instruments and nuanced vocals.
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a very valid point

taking something made completely digitally and recorded digitally and putting out a vinyl version doesn't really enhance shyt...
 
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Amestafuu (Emeritus) said:
i called cd's a default winner because they were the most convenient. every format had it's issue. scratching and skipping? :skip:

when cd format first came out it was rejected by a lot of people because of the thin sound. took them a long time to get cd mastering down right in order to convert audio lovers. people bought tapes well into the 90's

a very valid point

taking something made completely digitally and recorded digitally and putting out a vinyl version doesn't really enhance shyt...
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WHEN DEALING WITH AUDIO/VIDEO. THE WEAKEST LINK IN YOUR SETUP WILL BE THE PEAK PERFORMANCE OF THAT SYSTEM.
 
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