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« Music: October 2012 | Main | Music: December 2012 » MusicTo Vinyl or Not to Vinyl I don't have a dog in this fight. The only vinyl i miss nowadays is a 45 of The Little White Duck and my Strawberry Shortcake record. By the time i was allowed to buy music, I was in college and everything was on CD. But for those of you who do care... Digital sound, meanwhile, is produced by changing the physical properties of the original sound into a sequence of numbers, which can then be stored and read back for reproduction. In practical terms, you're getting a representation of the sound - the CD taking a snapshot of the analogue signal at a specific rate (44,100 times per second, to be exact). But what of the fabled 'warmth' attributed to vinyl? Christoph Grote-Beverborg has processed thousands of records across the electronic spectrum (and far beyond) for labels such as Tresor, Honest Jons and Ostgut Ton: "In terms of uncompressed digital audio vs vinyl, I can only repeat what has been said before: with digital audio the resolution is more limited than with analogue audio. The same goes for frequency range. But the real thing is what you hear. With vinyl you get a certain kind of saturation and added harmonics that you don't have with digital. The sound has a 'body'; it's just more physical. But then he says every sound system is shit anyway, so it really doesn't matter. I say, "Who cares about the infinitesimal difference in sound quality between vinyl and digital? When are cellphones going to stop sucking compared to a landline?". By min | November 9, 2012, 3:48 PM | Music | Comments (1)| Link ...is from Sly & the Family Stone's Stand!. Every time my brain hears "There's a midget standing tall" it totally drops whatever else i have it working on (like writing some annoying political post) and goes "Huh?". By fnord12 | November 7, 2012, 2:29 PM | Music | Link |