Vinyl May Be Final Nail in CD's Coffin. It seems sort of far-fetched, in a poetic-justice kind of way. But I imagine that the same people who switched from vinyl to CD for the convenience (back when there was a choice) are now just as happy with MP3s.
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As I said on Idolator (http://idolator.com/tunes/notag/will-the-music-industry-pin-its-hopes-on-vinyl-records-or-player-piano-rolls-316365.php), yes, vinyl can sound better – on a good turntable, with a quality cartridge and a clean needle. I know, duh! But that's not what 90% of vinyl listeners decades ago were using.
This is what audiophiles and vinyl nerds forget in this debate. Yes, yes, your vinyl system sounds better than CD, no doubt. But a CD played on a $30 Discman routed through a Radio Shack patch cord will sound better than the average living-room turntable of yore, hands down.
I'm tired of having this debate, not because the vinyl proponents don't have a point about vinyl's inherent qualities, but because they forget about how nine-tenths of the known world listens to music. Hint: not in a "clean room" or on quality gear.
Comment #1 :: link :: October 30, 2007 09:50 AM
