Mr. Charlie

In a very revealing system switching between two speaker cables built from similar materials can sound very different. So something as drastic as changing the source player will sound profoundly different.

Can most people tell whether a DJ is playing a record or a CD on the radio? I don't think so. I know I can't. But it's amazing how sensitive high fidelity equipment is. Even changing power cables will change the sound.

Mantis

I would think vinyl would only have the edge for purely analog recordings

Which a pretty large majority of recordings are not

I'm not really knowledgeable on this though

Scarlett O'Hara

Great place to put this thread. Now I'm going to make you all have a post count.

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ladyislingering

I really hate when people call records "vinyls" but I'm not gonna nitpick, because I like people who collect, love, and play them.

I prefer vinyl because I enjoy the whole package. I like being able to touch and handle my music, with large, detailed sleeves and the charming smell of decades passed. From the physical feel of the record, to the smell, to the warm sound of a needle in the grooves, the entire experience just really turns me on.

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Dr_Rez

u wut m8?

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ladyislingering

Think about it. Before we had CDs or digital media, nobody called them "vinyls" because there wasn't a difference in disc formats. It just irritates me because people of my chosen era never would have said that (and it just sounds really dumb).

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Dr_Rez

But the term record could be used to describe a tape or cd or online album. When you say vinyl it is clear what you are talking about. People didnt say it then because their was no other alternative to mix it up with.

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Key

As much as I agree, I think the real issue is using the plural form of vinyl. Saying "vinyls" doesn't make much sense considering vinyl is the proper form be it singular or plural. Saying vinyls is like saying deers.

Lisnaholic

^ Back in the old days, 78s and 45s were described by their speeds. I presume that because "thirty-three and a third" was a bit of a mouthful, the next format to evolve was called a Long Player because it dramatically broke through the +/- ten-mins-per-disc barrier that had always applied previously. For something like ten years, a Long Player was always called an "lp," then, (and I blame this on musicians and journalists) the vague and slightly pretentious word "album" became cooler to use and the term "lp" was pretty much abandoned.

Of course "album" as applied to music is not format-specific. In a way that works well if you want to talk about a collection of songs that is published in various ways. What is a shame is that "album" has completely ousted the term "lp", which would be the perfect name to use in this thread and which would have avoided upsetting ladyislingering.

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Mr. Charlie

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