The Vinly Records Thread

[sega16]

I think that as of now we have no fair way to prove if vinyl is better or not I think to do a fair test we need to get an audio cable spliter have one goto a vinly record recorder and the other going to a digital cd recorder also the audio amps and capacitors in the vinyl recorder or cd recorder should be the same value or same ic chip to eliminate the possibility that one has a better ic amp or heavier filtering on the audio.After that the audio will be played on the same speakers with the same volume settings and again the playback circuitry should be the same the only difference is one uses a needle and the other a dac. Also remember digital and analog are different analog is like a ramp and digital is like a stairs. But when there are 2^16 (65,536) stairs that take you up 5 feet and a ramp also takes you up 5 feet the stairs will look like a ramp because each stair is only 0.0000762939453125 feet tall I got that by doing 5/(2^16). 2^16 (^ meaning the power of) is a way to calculate the max value of a number with x amount of bits in this case 16 bits.

[Chibisteven]

I think that as of now we have no fair way to prove if vinyl is better or not I think to do a fair test we need to get an audio cable spliter have one goto a vinly record recorder and the other going to a digital cd recorder also the audio amps and capacitors in the vinyl recorder or cd recorder should be the same value or same ic chip to eliminate the possibility that one has a better ic amp or heavier filtering on the audio.After that the audio will be played on the same speakers with the same volume settings and again the playback circuitry should be the same the only difference is one uses a needle and the other a dac. Also remember digital and analog are different analog is like a ramp and digital is like a stairs. But when there are 2^16 (65,536) stairs that take you up 5 feet and a ramp also takes you up 5 feet the stairs will look like a ramp because each stair is only 0.0000762939453125 feet tall I got that by doing 5/(2^16). 2^16 (^ meaning the power of) is a way to calculate the max value of a number with x amount of bits in this case 16 bits.

It's not like a digital recording. You comparing something that could have time domain differences. It's not possible to keep both perfectly sync. The record has wow and flutter and the CD has jitter. Plus, records and CDs have to be mastered differently, because of the limitations of the former format. Too much bass and the needle skips. Square waves, enjoy the skip. You also need the RIAA curve. Their two different mediams.

[TmEE]

CD is much better on everything but freq range and can sound much nicer... but when you go buy a CD and lookat a rip of it you'll see how compressed crap it is in many cases... fuck loudness war, 0db is not meant for crossing on digital media !

Now lets discuss those artworks, players, needles, HiFis and stuff :P

[TmEE]