Vinyl Gets Its Groove Back

theodp writes "Time reports that vinyl records are suddenly cool again. Vinyl has a warmer, more nuanced sound than CDs or MP3s; records feature large album covers with imaginative graphics, pullout photos, and liner notes. 'Bad sound on an iPod has had an impact on a lot of people going back to vinyl,' says 15-year-old David MacRunnel, who owns more than 1,000 records."

Oy vey

[i_liek_turtles]

You know your format is doomed if you consider a 15 year old your "expert" to quote.

Re:echo....echo....echo

[The_Wilschon]

Hurray for punchcards?! When you were my age, we had to make our own paper if we wanted punchcards! With our teeth! In the snow! And we liked it!

But punched cards are best

[Beryllium Sphere(tm)]

>I haven't heard a hurray for punchcards post recently.

Newer technologies just don't give programs the same nuanced performance and octagonal algorithms as punched cards. The clean edges of a punched bit totally rule over the bits on magnetic media that require a dedicated computer just to recover them from the noise. All that extra work to reconstruct a bit makes them tired, and fatiguing to debug.

Face it: programs run off hard disks just have grainy memory usage and an indistinct sound stage.

But punched cards are a distraction from the real issue, which is that only a vacuum tube computer can do justice to the best algorithms.

For sound quality...

[Chysn]

...there's no beating half-inch reel-to-reel. Vinyl, pfft.

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[flyingfsck]

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Re:Not surprising...

[Belial6]

That's why I get all my recordings on wax cylinders!

Re:Not surprising...

[Anonymous Coward]

"It's" is a contraction for "it is."

It's?

/O RLY

Re:"Suddenly"?

[flyingsquid]

Vinyl? Give me a freakin' break. Vinyl is for pussies. REAL audiophiles use wax cylinders. And we only use organic beeswax, gathered from our own honeybee colonies, which feed exclusively on a diet of Brazilian orchid nectar. Anything else and you're just an amateur.

Some people will say it costs too much, but I disagree. Sure, building the audio system of my dreams cost $750,000, not to mention my job, my house, and my marriage. But my system makes Britney Spears sound like fucking Beethoven!

Re:Oy vey

[foobsr]

it's a retarded format due to it's volatility

Like the 'Human' one is. But I am sure the military, at least, is working hard on a replacement.

CC.

Re:"Suddenly"?

[Dogtanian]

But my system makes Britney Spears sound like fucking Beethoven!

What does Britney Spears fucking Beethoven sound like anyway?

Re:Delta-sigma

[commodoresloat]

Well, try to listen to the ipod in a pair of these $5350.00 speakers [crutchfield.com] and tell me again again about those "warmer, more nuanced" sounds.

Umm, I'll listen to it that way, and tell you whatever the hell you want to hear, if you hook me up with a set of those speakers!

Re:"Suddenly"?

[Conanymous Award]

"What does Britney Spears fucking Beethoven sound like anyway?"

Dunno, but I'm sure those "ohs" and "yes's" and "ja's" sound warmer and more nuanced on vinyl than in some crappy compressed digital format.

Re:There is a zero-wear player

[thegnu]

Dude, but if you're using a freaking LASER to read your vinyl, you'd damn well better have those $8000 speaker cables [slashdot.org]. I hear they make the music more "danceable. [positive-feedback.com]"

Ahem. This is my excuse from now on when people criticize my dancing.

Re:There is a zero-wear player

[CastrTroy]

<malechauvinist> Dust isn't your problem. It's your wife's job to make sure there's no dust in the house. If there is, she's not doing her job right. </malechauvinist>

Re:Oy vey

[Tilzs]

Only raving lunatics think the old albums are better.

That is probably accurate.

Re:Oy vey

[Wog]

That really depends on how much sun we're talking about, doesn't it?

Re:Oy vey

[mrbooze]

Here's my theory about audiophiles obsessed with vinyl. They're like guys who think that if they store a woman properly and only have sex with her very carefully, she won't lose her virginity.

Me, I like my music like I like my women: sturdy, affordable, and able to hold up to repetitive playing.

Re:Ah, the things "audiophiles" claim...

[technothrasher]

Sad to say, no amount of explaining that a 1 is a 1 is a 1 on a hard drive and the MP3 read will be identical on any brand

Hmm, I think I'm with the audiophile with this one. On a Western Digital hard drive all my MP3s sound different. They all sound like "click, click, click".