Wall of Mouths

Bug it most certainly is, I promised myself I’d have a bit of a break from buying records after the recent spree but managed to go out this morning to do a bt of food shopping and returned with a copy of Two Bad DJ - Clint Eastwood & General Saint as well.
What do people think to the sound quality of recent releases? I’m not sure if you get that much of a better (subjective) sound from recordings that were originally made in digital and then pressed onto vinyl as opposed to recordings made in analogue?

vinyl is a really beautiful format to own and if an album is that good its not really a problem to have both formats,and vinyl will always increase in value ,(just an opinion)

for me there is no doubt that an awful lot of vinyl sounds better than CDs ,and like Mr H stated it has an awful lot to do with what your playing them on ,i know you can get remasters on cds and that has to be a good thing, but at the end of the day music is an organic thing by its nature,its made by human beings which means its not flawless ,sometimes music can be made to clinical and clean

theres nothing like the bass sound on analouge,for some reason digital bass dosent always sound right ,real bass should be felt more than heard ,a good bass sound should hit you in the guts,but being a big reggae fan thats something you will already know!!!

With modern day technology, I don’t think any serious company would make a CD sound anything less than perfect. I always viewed the ‘Vinyl sounds better’ as an invalid kinda elitist sounding argument, since it’s always explained in vague terms and I’ve never seen any technical explanation for it that has managed to convince me. If vinyl was superior, why’d they start making CD’s and how would you explain their success? There is no real advantage to vinyl save for appreciation and the fun of having them, which imo is a good enough reason to buy them (for others, not for me, I spend enough money on music while everything’s available for free ) so I don’t mind it at all and even think it’s good vinyls survive the ages because people keep buying them, but if you view it purely pragmatically, the CD is just as good and likely superior. Other than that it’s just a question of what you like: I like CD’s because they’re in the easiest format (amongst other things) and dislike MP3’s (like playing them in a car) even though purely technically speaking they may have their advantages as well and I simply put it like that, I don’t need to make up another reason I can’t prove for it.

If CDs sound nothing less than perfect then why did they start making mp3s and how do you explain their success? The reason CDs were so successful is due to ease of use and storage as much as anything else, same as mp3s which are even easier to use and store (both are also progressively easier to copy which is weird given the music industry’s aversion to copying!). In pure sound terms it’s a personal preference, any music reproduction depends on the original recording as much as anything, some vinyl does sound better to me but that’s down to personal factors, much the same as anything (like why I prefer some beer to others etc).

I do like vinyls myself (my parents have a nice collection) and we’re basically saying the same thing anyway so. I just believe you don’t need a specific reason to like something and people sometimes come up with reasons just to make more sense ^^ (I don’t mean you); With Mp3’s I can safely say there is a bit of loss of quality during the conversion though, unless you want really big (compared to the average quality files) files, then it doesn’t matter.

i rember when CDs were first introduced,and they tried to tell us they were virtually indistructable and they would last forever ,which we all now know was untrue,CDs are exellent for storage and very convinient for playing in the car,garden ,holiday,but apart from that ill stick with vinyl,and just like betamax went to vhs and vhs went to dvd i have no doubt that in time they will come up with some new exiting format to persuede the masses buy a new machine and once again replace their entire music collection

If the difference was that great and obvious I’m sure vinyl would’ve remained more popular.

this topic will never end as long as people are buying,selling and enjoying vinyl!!!

this reminds me, I need to pre-order the new Pulley 7-inch.
Vinyl sounds sooooo much better loud…too bad een vinyl couldn’t help Death Magenetic.

WTF is it with some people, why would you send a record through the post and not put a piece of cardboard in with it as a stiffener AND NOT WRITE PLEASE DO NOT BEND ON THE PACKAGING? I mean they’ve handwritten the address so it’s not like it would have taken more than a few seconds to do.

They didn’t get alot of money, that’s probably why they did a shit job, 79p for the record and £3 for the postage, probably trying to make up a bit by doing the postage as cheap as possible (still cost them £2.20 to post it). Or maybe they’ve never sent or bought vinyl through the post before, but more likely your right and they’re just a dick.

^Nice.
Just looking into getting some vinyl pressed, prices etc. Quite a process and quite probably too expensive but interesting reading all the same.

Mr H ,i looked into getting some vinyl pressed a couple of years ago (demos of my old band) ,and it is affordable ,but like everything else in the world you get what you pay for ,the price depends on several factors ,how loud you want the disc ,the length of the tracks and weather the tracks come from tape or MP3 ,here is a link to one of the better companies i found ,http://www.vinylcarvers.com/ ,and get this,there is a company that will press vinyl made from your MORTAL REMAINS(yes its true) if the company are still in buisness details of the procedure can be found at http://WWW.ANDVINYLY.COM ,and if there no longer do buisness i can send you one of their ads to prove they existed