Playback quality on CDs is not better than on vinyl. Music suffers from compression, and it isn't digital. CDs are not as bad as MP3s, but nothing this side of a live performance can cut it quite so well as vinyl. Most likely what you're actually experiencing is low quality stereo equipment for LPs. Good turntables exist, but they are expensive, and most people aren't interested in paying a lot of money for something they can't find easily, like new music on vinyl.
So there.:-P (the_original1 and I probably have at least 400 albums on vinyl, casette, and CD. I'm a little bit opinionated about music. But I'm right, so I think that's okay.)
My husband is an audiophile and has had some nice audio equipment in the past, but I don't really know anything about it. It may be true that LPs have the potential for better sound, but it isn't high enough on our list for the effort and expense it would require.
Thanks for the info! I'll keep it in mind the next time I mouth off on the subject. :o)
I'm just trying to help clauderainsrm out with harrassing you.:-)
When we win the lottery, we're going to spend some money on a really nice turntable. Then we'll invite people over so we can prove to them that it sounds better. Until then, you'll just have to take my word for it.:-)
Heh. Gary's summoning is troops now, eh? Go ahead, I can take it (so long as I know you're joking ;)
I just asked Joe what he had (this was back in the '70s) it was a Thorens turntable with a Stanton 681EE cartridge, fed into AR amplifier and out to Koss ESP9 Electrostatic headphones. He says he didn't have Crown tube amp money. Heh.
I am just joking. I can't speak for Gary, of course.:-)
Thorens are nice (understatement). And they're still around and still making turntables! We have our sights set on one of those laser turntables, although I still don't understand how the heck they work. Now we just have to win the lottery. Preferably tonight.:-)
And by "back in the day" do you mean when people start bragging about how much harder things were for them than "these young kids today with their vidya games and the MTV"?
By "licking people" do you mean in RL or in LJ *asterisk* speak?
Yeah, I don't like those either. The thing that really bothers me about all the acronyms is that the meanings can change. I swear, when I first started playing around on the internet, LOL meant "lots of luck." At least, among the people I knew. Then I didn't go on line for a few years. I came back, and was really confused until the_original1 told me it meant "laugh out loud."
"Popo" is gang-speak for police. I have a niece who used to use it all the time because she thought it was cool. stacye13 uses it to be goofy, and now because she knows I hate it.
I posted something about "back in the day." Ah, here it is. It's just a popular phrase that bugs the crap out of me.
And the licking thing is a LJ-speak thing, like hugging and stuff, but licking. It bugs . . . well, the crap out of me.:-)
I'm easily annoyed, I guess. Consider yourself warned!:-) (I also overuse emoticons, so consider yourself warned about that, too.)
Well, it's a good thing that overusing emoticons doesn't get on your nerves because you'd be ready to stab your eyes out with my comments!
As for your Seinfeld reference aversion.... tsk tsk. That show is a classic and it's fun to quote. Fortunately for you, I don't quote it much online, but Joe and I speak in Seinfeld quotes regularly among ourselves.
I occasionally use a few acronyms like OMG, BTW, BRB, otoh, stuff like that, but never the dreaded "lol" unless I'm being a smartass about it. I do kind of like it, though, when it's absolutely overboard like "OMGlollerksatesWTFBBQ!!11!oneeleventy!!11! just because it's so over-the-top. It's funny in the same way that Little Richard is funny.
And I'm glad to have an unapologetic ranter on my flist. I love a good rant and I do toss one out on occasion, (I have a rant tag, too) but much of my flist (I hope "flist" doesn't get on your nerves. If so, too bad because I use it all the time ;) is self-conscious about ranting. I think rants are hilarious, though.
I would probably have liked the couple of episodes of Seinfeld that I saw, at least a little bit, if it weren't for so many people acting like Jerry Seinfeld is the Messiah of comedy. And my mother-in-law, who forgets moments after she's told that we don't watch television, asking us all the time if we saw the latest episode, and then we tell her no, and then she proceeds to tell us in minute detail about it.
Anything you say on your own journal is absolutely fine with me (well, it might still annoy me, but it's your journal, so that's too bad for me). And I won't even drop you if you use my pet peeves in comments on my own. I just want to make sure people know ahead of time that I might jump on them for being annoying.:-)
It's been a while since I've really put up a good rant. I'll have to fix that. I don't want people to think I've gone soft.;-)
Yeah, I think you may have liked the show, but I'd be the same way if I were in your position. I'm that way about lots of things that I can't think of right now. American Idol is one. Oh, and Mind of Mencia. Wow, do I ever hate that guy.
And Joe is BAD about describing scenes from Seinfeld to other people who don't want to hear it.
Anything you say on your own journal is absolutely fine with me [...] And I won't even drop you if you use my pet peeves in comments on my own
Yeah, but I still like to know when I'm annoying somebody. Intentional annoyance is one thing but accidental annoyance is another. What if you'd just posted about what a crappy day you had, and then I come along trying to be supportive by saying, "OMG, that is so unkewl *head asplodey*. You should call the popo on their asses. LOLOLOL!! *licks you*"
So there.:-P (the_original1 and I probably have at least 400 albums on vinyl, casette, and CD. I'm a little bit opinionated about music. But I'm right, so I think that's okay.)
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Thanks for the info! I'll keep it in mind the next time I mouth off on the subject. :o)
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When we win the lottery, we're going to spend some money on a really nice turntable. Then we'll invite people over so we can prove to them that it sounds better. Until then, you'll just have to take my word for it.:-)
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I just asked Joe what he had (this was back in the '70s) it was a Thorens turntable with a Stanton 681EE cartridge, fed into AR amplifier and out to Koss ESP9 Electrostatic headphones. He says he didn't have Crown tube amp money. Heh.
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Thorens are nice (understatement). And they're still around and still making turntables! We have our sights set on one of those laser turntables, although I still don't understand how the heck they work. Now we just have to win the lottery. Preferably tonight.:-)
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He has an LJ, but he hardly ever uses it. Regardless, it's pilliard_dickle. There's a lot to like about him. He's cooooool.
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stacye13 specifically remembers my annoyance list so that she can annoy me. If you forget, I'll survive.
And I think I might have to add you back.:-)
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Uh... what is "popo"
And by "back in the day" do you mean when people start bragging about how much harder things were for them than "these young kids today with their vidya games and the MTV"?
By "licking people" do you mean in RL or in LJ *asterisk* speak?
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Yeah, I don't like those either. The thing that really bothers me about all the acronyms is that the meanings can change. I swear, when I first started playing around on the internet, LOL meant "lots of luck." At least, among the people I knew. Then I didn't go on line for a few years. I came back, and was really confused until the_original1 told me it meant "laugh out loud."
"Popo" is gang-speak for police. I have a niece who used to use it all the time because she thought it was cool. stacye13 uses it to be goofy, and now because she knows I hate it.
I posted something about "back in the day." Ah, here it is. It's just a popular phrase that bugs the crap out of me.
And the licking thing is a LJ-speak thing, like hugging and stuff, but licking. It bugs . . . well, the crap out of me.:-)
I'm easily annoyed, I guess. Consider yourself warned!:-) (I also overuse emoticons, so consider yourself warned about that, too.)
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As for your Seinfeld reference aversion.... tsk tsk. That show is a classic and it's fun to quote. Fortunately for you, I don't quote it much online, but Joe and I speak in Seinfeld quotes regularly among ourselves.
I occasionally use a few acronyms like OMG, BTW, BRB, otoh, stuff like that, but never the dreaded "lol" unless I'm being a smartass about it. I do kind of like it, though, when it's absolutely overboard like "OMGlollerksatesWTFBBQ!!11!oneeleventy!!11! just because it's so over-the-top. It's funny in the same way that Little Richard is funny.
And I'm glad to have an unapologetic ranter on my flist. I love a good rant and I do toss one out on occasion, (I have a rant tag, too) but much of my flist (I hope "flist" doesn't get on your nerves. If so, too bad because I use it all the time ;) is self-conscious about ranting. I think rants are hilarious, though.
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Anything you say on your own journal is absolutely fine with me (well, it might still annoy me, but it's your journal, so that's too bad for me). And I won't even drop you if you use my pet peeves in comments on my own. I just want to make sure people know ahead of time that I might jump on them for being annoying.:-)
It's been a while since I've really put up a good rant. I'll have to fix that. I don't want people to think I've gone soft.;-)
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And Joe is BAD about describing scenes from Seinfeld to other people who don't want to hear it.
Anything you say on your own journal is absolutely fine with me [...] And I won't even drop you if you use my pet peeves in comments on my own
Yeah, but I still like to know when I'm annoying somebody. Intentional annoyance is one thing but accidental annoyance is another. What if you'd just posted about what a crappy day you had, and then I come along trying to be supportive by saying, "OMG, that is so unkewl *head asplodey*. You should call the popo on their asses. LOLOLOL!! *licks you*"
*snicker*
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