yeah, it may well be a generational thing- my gut feeling is that
vinyl will always have a "cool" factor that will appeal to people
that will help things tick along for a good while yet- for our
particualr music and where club gigs are concerned, I still haven't
used anything that comes close to the experience of two vinyl decks
and a mixer- in a situation like this I'm not particularly interested
in endless choice of tracks that MP3 playback systems offer- I'm
happy to ride the uncertaintly of having to play with what you've got
to hand and make the best out of what I've got and also, for me,
there IS a difference in sound quality between MP3, CD and viny.
As for home listening there is no denying the attraction and
convinience of the ipod and computer based music- I spent ages
importing all of my my CD collection into I-tunes but my main
computer isn't in my living room so I can only access this music
through my ipod and scrolling through loads and loads and loads of
artists/albums to find what I'm looking for is a bit of a pain-
sometimes its just easier to bung an actual CD in the player and let
it go!
Very interested in everyones' opinions though and thanks very much
for taking the time to let me know what you all think
Jason
On 18 Aug 2006, at 09:03, Martin Dust wrote:
I can see where you are coming from Jason but I do buy a lot of
stuff from Beatport and Bleep mostly odd tracks from EPs and Albums
where I don't like the full thing and while it may not appeal to
heads I know teenagers who don't own a single piece of Vinyl or a
CD but do own more than one hard drive with their collection on - I
also buy stuff that you can't get on vinyl/cd - DMZ for example. I
buy the odd pop track off iTunes but if you look at the charts for
electronic music on iTunes you see that they haven't changed for
months - Born Slippy has been in the top ten since they started -
so that gives you a big clue about who buys there...
As for the future, I think there's room for all formats and paying
a couple of quid for a wav is a better format than vinyl ;)
my 2 cents
m
