Paul Francis opened this issue on Apr 18, 2013 · 43 posts
SamTherapy posted Fri, 19 April 2013 at 9:20 AM
Heh, you old git.
Oh, I'm 54 tomorrow. :(
Yep, buying an album was a real pleasure because you had a physical artefact. Even CDs were better than some nebulous digital file floating around on a HD or - even worse - a cloud.
As things stand, I'll always prefer CDs to downloads, due in part to their uncompressed format.
All that said, please don't tell me vinyl sounds better than CD because it demonstrably doesn't. Music on vinyl is incredibly compressed (that's in the musical sense of the word) and has a massively reduced dynamic range. Granted, some CDs sound lousy and that's because, by and large, music had been transferred from masters made for vinyl which had all the compression, dynamic range reduction and EQ biasing present, or studio engineers were still using the compromises they'd gotten used to working with. Stuff recorded for CD, or remastered for CD generally sounds much better.
But... I really miss the old album sleeves which were often works of art in themselves, as avowed in the first post.
Coppula eam se non posit acceptera jocularum.