Vinyl vs CD

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Which is better all things considered?

Cassettes

How stupid of a question is this? Is there anyone stupid enough to say vinyl?

irrelevant to the thread

Neo proto pseudo hipsters

>All these plebs picking CD
Enjoy your digital rot!

OP you're a little dingus

Is this a meme? I have CDs that were made in 1983 and they function just the same as the CDs I bought this past weekend.

Ironic because your vinyl will disintegrate well before our CDs.

no body will give a damn about your ugly jewel case CD collection when they come to your house

vinyl on the other hand is aesthetically pleasing and chances are they will want to look through your records when they see it

Wow, what a retarded selling point. Do you work in a used record store?

i'd like a bigger sample, would you guys mind linking this thread in other related threads? ty

I've discovered during the last two years, since I can take CD-Rs home from the mastering plant, that there's an astonishing variation in quality between different CD plants. If you think digital is perfect, I have news for you. Many of us have been fooled by this myth that it's just 0s and 1s and therefore copies perfectly. It doesn't. The variations in quality are pretty wild, and random. Just the way you hook up a cable can make a difference. And there's no quality control in these CD plants, other than someone checking whether there's any level being transferred.

Most of us take it for granted that a CD is a CD, and we almost never discuss about varying standards of manufacture. I can't say too much about current US manufacturer's because I have few US made CDs. I have still detected a general shrillness to many US CDs ("let's tweek the high end to make them sound sharp to delude the general public that our CDs sound better than vinyl and tape"). Tweeking the high end also accentuated the hiss. After so many disappointments and revelations having heard import versions after getting US discs I have concentrated on acquiring import pressings.

As for maunfacturers themselves: on the import side I like the clarity of Nimbus UK but they can be hissier and lighter on low end than MPO France which produces well rounded sounding CDs. PDO have been fine except for the recent PDO UK disc rot problem. Sonopress in Germany are adequate. I used to shy away from DADC in Austria (Sony Europe uses them) but have realised that was a personal bias. Nimbus USA (Virginia) vary. Their reissues of the OMD catalogue were shoddy. DADC in Indiana (Sony/Columbia) are so so.

Nice pasta. I read this a few months ago.

If you collect music for social leverage, off yourself.

In the end the only 2 forms of music that will survive will be vinyl and digital

Ever tried rolling a spliff on a cd? Too small.

Vinyl>CD>Cassette>Digital

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"all things considered" is still not really a helpful thing. For example, records are really great for parties or for having sex to, because of the ritual itself of rifling through records and popping one on. But objectively CDs are a better way to listen to music.

I think it's the other way around. CDs for parties and sex (don't need to stop every 15-20 minutes to flip), vinyl for whole album listening

Nah, vinyl turns """"alt"""" girls on

I don't even have a good way to play CDs anymore. My pc isn't hooked to my soundsystem and everything else uses aux

>not flipping from puss to pooper as you flip from A to B side

Equal reporting in

Records > CDs >>> Tapes

Digital is best.

Records > Tapes > CDs

What are you stupid or something?

Sound quality? CDs
Tumblr factor? Records

Vinyl all the way.

yes

Cassettes playa

CD's sound great, are convenient, and you can easily get a high quality rip from them
Records have a novel appeal, and are fun to collect and play, but they are far less convenient and they are expensive as shit. Middle of the road sound quality
cassettes have the novelty of records and are dirt cheap, but they are inconvenient and lack in sound quality in most cases

idk boys, putting digital music through my boss ass amplifier is pretty similar sound quality to my turntable...
i wanna believe in vinyl, I really do, but idk
(for anyone asking I have a sansui turntable with a grado black 1 cart)

>MFSL
Have you ever heard CD version of that album MFSL issue? It kills everything, flat transfer from master tapes

So why the fuck would you want a noisy vinyl anyway?