Yeah, but an mp3 of vinyl crackle would be a compressed, digital approximation of the analogue source, so (assuming this argument holds water) would still sound less 'warm' than a slab of vinyl with nothing but, err, hiss and crackle on it. Like some uber-mnml m-nus release ;)
But anyway, this is getting waaaaaaay too zen for me. N > Perhaps playing a silent record is going to far :) ... but it's a fair > point. > > Still, if your file's digitized from vinyl you would get all the > benefits of the medium in the audio quality too, I guess? > > -----Original Message----- > From: pauley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 04 January 2008 13:35 > To: 313@hyperreal.org > Subject: [Fwd: Re: (313) Digital Djing] > > > 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... >> >> >> >> >> >> > >
