Just reading this http://www.cybernetic-broadcasting.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=12749&p=3
It got me to thinking about laptop preformances sounding so sterile and thin, especially over a club PA where you need to feel part of the sound...I wonder if playing a blank sided record through the PA at the same time would fill in that space that seems empty with mp3/laptop, so you feel that 'inaudible' record rumble? How much of the preceived audio loss of mp3 in a club is actually record/surface/player noise? > > > Some interesting views from the artist-label point of view come up here. > > From a consumer's point of view I'd say that vinyl is not the only > area of life where we are facing a transition from physical to digital > objects. The same problems come up with things like books. > I have two opinions on the whole thing. I buy quite a lot of vinyl > (I'm not a collector as such but many of the people who know me would > completely disagree), my house is full of the stuff. I'm also quite > computer literate and have all my digital stuff well managed. > > As time goes on I'm less and less likely to buy vinyl, unless it's a > must have release. I'm less tied to that physical object and the huge > advantage to having everything digital is that I can have access to it > pretty much anytime, there and then. Since managing all my music > digitally (digitised vinyl and downloads) I listen to the music I buy > a lot lot more and for the digital stuff the total cost of the music I > buy has dropped considerably (for the same amount purchased). > > Now, I don't know how representative I am of the market for techno/ > house out there but I know a lot of friends who used to spend all > their money on this stuff and now they've moved on in life (jobs, > kids, houses etc) don't buy music at all because of the cost/space etc > of vinyl. Because of digital I'll never get to that point where I'll > stop so in a sense digital could be a way of retaining some part of a > lost market. > > All that said I'll be very very sad when vinyl disappears but I am > resigned to it going eventually. > > robin... > > > > > >
