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Subject: Re: [313] trading on napster / digital mixing
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:25:39 -0600 (CST)
I don't stick with it for sentimental reasons, its the simplicity that
attracts me...
whose to say a simpler, more intuitive interface can't be created?
Oh
Oh, and your record will never crash, or you needle with
never have an irq
conflict...
yes but your digital file won't get a scratch in it, and it won't be
a 500 press run that is almost impossible to find...
now thats good and bad
i dont think digital file mixers/tables are going to be too
Why has no one mentioned the sound quality in this debat (or have they and
I've missed it).
For me, the most important thing about music is not the ideas behind it, not
who's written it or from where, not what format it's on or how easy it is to
mix. The most important thing, for me anyway, is
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Paul Hudson wrote:
Vinyl sounds better than CD and CD sounds better than MP3. While the
popular media say Mp3's sound as good as CD's, I don't think anyone believes
them do they? I mean, just play a CD next to a high quality MP3 on quality
Hi-Fi. They tow don't even
It depends on how it's been coded. 256kbps isn't too
bad... the problem is that you have to have a really
high level of kbps to get anything like something
worth purchasing which obviously means massive files.
I don't see why anyone would wanna BUY mp3's so
they're not really commercially viable
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Nick Walsh wrote:
It depends on how it's been coded. 256kbps isn't too
bad... the problem is that you have to have a really
well, if one wants quality, one buys audioactive production studio.
otherwise, lame does almost as good job. occasionally better, depending on
the
I wasn't really damning it, it just interested me...
But I personally like vinyl because it is tangible, and highly manipulated
via the simplest process-using your fingers...
I don't stick with it for sentimental reasons, its the simplicity that
attracts me...
Oh, and your record will never
I'm always surprised at how reactionary people get when the subject of
replacing turntables with a superior (yet not so sentimental) alternative
comes up. You'd think someone had suggested to the pope that the earth
isn't the center of the universe!
surprisingly enough, the technics sl-1200mk2
I don't stick with it for sentimental reasons, its the simplicity that
attracts me...
whose to say a simpler, more intuitive interface can't be created?
Oh, and your record will never crash, or you needle with never have an irq
conflict...
your records can warp, your needles can break.