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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1
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I only buy music on CD's. The sound is not quite as "pure" as vinyl, but they do not degrade like vinyl does when you play them. Most new music is probably recorded digitally, but I haven't bought anything recorded in the last 30 years. I've ripped all of my music to MP3 to play in the car and share with the family. My CD's are in a locked cabinet and only I touch them. I have an old higher end CD player, and I believe the sound quality is better than MP3's. There is compression etc involved in ripping MP3's. Only I touch my CD's.
Vinyl has become "cool", but I have to laugh at the new USB turntables. Most of the music I like was recorded in analog, and vinyl purists are looking for the warmer analog sound. Immediately running the sound into an A-D conversion is just not pure. Some albums from the 80's were recorded, mastered, or remastered digitally, and putting them on vinyl seems stupid.
I'm not that much of an audiophile and accept the sound of CD's. MP3's are OK for the car and providing background sound in the house. When I really want to listen to music, I go to my CD's.
No, it is not. Broken hammer hinge pin. But it’s on a cheap old Spanish no name copy I inherited. I never fired it because the action wasn’t right. Glad I didn’t. This revolver looks like it was made in a dirt floor shop in Spain back when cheap copies were flooding the country.
Look closely at the horrific machining. Fine crapsmanship right there.
Fixable, but the lack of a S&W roll stamp on the frame indicates it's most likely a cheap Spanish knockoff that surely has other issues so it isn't worth the effort.
E.T.A.... @lash beat me to the draw by that much..
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Neither do I buy on vinyl, unless it's a legacy piece (curio/relic) that I cannot get otherwise. A recent example of that would be the original Herbert Von Karajan's full cover of Ricard Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra." It's the full 40 minute ver. (London Records), the opening of which was the one actually featured in the Kubrick 2001 movie. Not available on CD to my knowledge.
I don't have the locked cabinets for CDs, but I get it. I do some ripping but only to have it on my desktop to listen. Still, I keep the CD as backup. It helps a little as it cuts down on wear & tear on the CDs themselves, especially for things that are no longer replaceable.
A good example of that would be Michael Jackson's "BAD" album. That was a full DDD Digital recording. And it sounded kinda weird (too "electronic") when compared to the BAD video. Funny, now they have YouTube videos where the "reactors" are reacting to "mashup" versions of Bad vs. Weird Al Yankovic's "FAT."
I haven't listened to my Vinyl in a long time. I'm just saying, I have the turntable if I ever wanted to.
I'd take the knock off over the original in this case.
I asked that very question before retirement . . . but I did not tell him why.
If I had to guess, that is probably the reason he was the only one that acknowledged (telephone call) receipt of the letter.
AFAIK, most if not all modern vinyl is made this way with maybe a few exceptions.
It would be fun to play an original pure analog and it's digitally remastered counterpart through a high end turntable in a blind sampling for a bunch of audiophiles.
A guy I knew a long time ago used to paint the edges of all his CDs with a green marker because it made them sound better.
Some of the older bands who have money record on tape and vinyl.
I know one of kiss last records was recorded on old school tape because they thought it sounded better etc
They said it’s harder and much more expensive…but when your a mega band it doesn’t matter.
