Vinyl Analysis

This article is about young musicians under a blind test to determine which format is better.

Nothing interesting about that but I thought its opening paragraph was surprising.

The writer states that there is actually a rising trend in vinyl sales amongst younger crowd.

I listen to a lot of DJ records. They never left an analogue scene when a CD came but most people migrated to CDs.

Anyways, I like the closing sentence.

“Both do the same thing differently, but you still need both.”

Interesting piece.
But things like "I tend to think older stuff sounds better on vinyl and newer stuff sounds better on CD. But not always" still have the power to shorten my hands nails.

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"I tend to think older stuff sounds better on vinyl and newer stuff sounds better on CD. But not always"

I am of much the same opinion, stuff that was recorded for vinyl seems to lack something when put on CD, but modern digital recordings don't seem to benefit that much from being pressed.

Can anybody remember the group that were on The Gadget Show and consistently preferred MP3 to vinyl and CD? I definitely saw it and it wasn't 1st April either.

In my experience, through my best friend's kit, some of the newer bands that sound great on vinyl specifically master the recording to sound best in that format. Shellac comes to mind.

The Radiohead vinyl, as well as The White Stripes are wonderful on vinyl and I would venture to say "better".

Same goes for The Pixies, My Bloody Valentine, Slint etc....

I dont know if there is a correlation, but the "lower-fi" bands tend to sound fabulous on vinyl.

FYI, not sure if we are "young" or not at the age of 34-35. But he is a vinyl nut. All of my vinyl has been transferred to 24/96 FLACs, but i will get a TT as soon as I get a CDX, HC, NAPSC etc......

regarding its popularity.... Yes the DJ and HipHop scene pushes this to some extent. But I think that with the "younger" people out there, anything "retro" or "vintage" is very attractive. It is getting increasingly more difficult to be unique is this ever shrinking world.

Not to mention that regardless of the motives in play, these people also realize that vinyl replay sounds VERY good and decidedly different.

my 2 cents.
-patrick

The new Radiohead album sounds simply superb on vinyl!

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Originally posted by ROTF:
Can anybody remember the group that were on The Gadget Show and consistently preferred MP3 to vinyl and CD? I definitely saw it and it wasn't 1st April either.

The deaf brothers?

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Originally posted by ROTF:
Can anybody remember the group that were on The Gadget Show and consistently preferred MP3 to vinyl and CD?

No, but they certainly need to be kept off the grass!

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Originally posted by OssyDave:
The new Radiohead album sounds simply superb on vinyl!

As do the latest Wilco and Ween lps

Dean

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Originally posted by ROTF:
Can anybody remember the group that were on The Gadget Show and consistently preferred MP3 to vinyl and CD?

Maybe listening to all that MP3 and nasty cellphone ringtones has left them deaf?

...and those earbuds that come with an iPods.

All that distortion shoved right up in your ears can't be healthy.