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[Nvyseal]

images/news/hardware.jpgPortability is no longer any reason to stick with CDs, and neither is audio quality. Although vinyl purists are ripe for parody, they're right about one thing: Records can sound better than CDs.

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.

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.

"The digital world will never get there," said Chris Ashworth, owner of United Record Pressing, the country's largest record pressing plant.

Golden-eared audiophiles have long testified to vinyl's warmer, richer sound. And now demand for vinyl is on the rise. Pressing plants that were already at capacity are staying there, while others are cranking out more records than they did last year in order to keep pace with demand.

Continue reading this interesting article over @ Wired

I for one miss the rich sounds of a freshly pressed LP

[m.oreilly]

after reading the responses, i figure most of the peeps out there have not experienced vinyl music, have no comparitive audio sophistication, live in their car, and/or think of music as a TV like chatter, cherpping in the background, filling a sonic void of some kind. yep, after listening to vinyl on good kit, hearing my first cd on said gear was an experience less than thrilling, not to mention mp3s. now i'm hot for one of them usb 'tables

[hog]

I'm too young to have listened to vinyls a lot during its glorious days, though I do have two working turntables at home (including my dad's, which dates from the early 80s, if not 70s - with some parts replaced) and it sounds much better than CDs and mp3s. I agree MO that those who say vinyls aren't better probably have never heard one. Some of my friends buy almost as many vinyls as CDs, one even has several vinyls for which he doesn't have the CD equivalent. Vinyl/mp3 packages (Radiohead!) are great because anyways, who still listens to a CD? Personnally, I take my CD out of the case to rip it to my computer and put it back in to never touch it again. A vinyl with better audio quality and big artwork is much more interesting.

[stormrosson]

ah MO u know that ain't me

[m.oreilly]

stormrosson, on Oct 30 2007, 10:46 AM, said:

ah MO u know that ain't me

so, you one o' dem CD lovers?

[Nvyseal]

m.oreilly, on Oct 30 2007, 11:51 AM, said:

so, you one o' dem CD lovers?

everyone knows hes seedy