music formats

[johncomic]

I just read an article about how the CD is dying thanx to digital downloads, and it was also going on about how vinyl is making a comeback. Ostensibly this is on account of vinyl's superior sound quality.

Speaking as one who grew up on vinyl and remembers its scratches and crackles and skips... as one who was there when the CD came in, and we compared vinyl and CD versions side by side and were blown away by the CD's vastly superior sound quality [e.g., Queensrÿche's Operation:mindcrime -- listen to the vinyl and CD back to back, no comparison!]... I gotta say WTF??!!??

Comments

[jaymarcy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get that crap all the time from people I know. Vinyl is definitely not superior to cd in sound quality, and digital downloads are also inferior in sound(though the difference is next to impossible to pick up with the human ear, so it's a moot point...) Damn these kids today and their ways...
Me, I'll carry on with CDs right through their own specialty music shop phase and I drop...

[viridescence13]

This is outdated, but I always found it interesting in discussions of vinyl vs. CDs.

[ginsu.livejournal.com]

I just read an article about how the CD is dying thanx to digital downloads

I think it would be a bit more forward-thinking to say the music business is dying thanks to piracy; I am actually surprised it has lasted this long.