Interesting Links for 03-04-2016

[andrewducker]

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[bart_calendar]

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[davesmusictank]

Fascinating vinyl record link. Thanks

[heron61]

Pressed to the Edge: Why vinyl hype is destroying the record

The interest in vinyl records utterly baffles me, I grew up with them, and entirely stopped using them more than 15 years ago because as a technology they utterly suck compared to CDs and even more when compared to being able to plug my phone into my stereo.

[andrewducker]

Yup. I started with CDs, and moved to MP3s and then Streaming as fast as possible.

[heron61]

For me, streaming is like radio, I use to find music I like, but (as with my opposition to DRM'd ebooks), I want to own and possess the music I like.

[ticktockman]

The warps! The ticks and pops! The fragility! The short running time per side!

The first thing I did when I got a new record was to dub it onto cassette. That way I could listen to it more conveniently, while keeping the disc undamaged. I had an outboard dbx encoder/decoder noise reduction unit that was superior to Dolby B, but was absolutely required for playback, so I could only listen to my dbx encoded tapes in my own living room.