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Subject: Re: Vinyl vs. CD recordings - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 6-Sep-84 13:07:00 EDT
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/***** uokvax:net.audio / watcgl!dmmartindale / 11:47 pm  Sep  1, 1984 */
But I don't have a CD player to make comparisons.  Has anyone done this?
What do you think?  Are CD's usually better than vinyl, or usually worse?
If better, is the price difference in the media worth it?
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I'm interested in hearing people's responses as well, but have this to
point out also: consider how the relative merits vary over time, what
with 1g turning into umpteen tons per square inch scraping away at that
virgin vinyl. Even the best analog disks will turn to junk eventually
(I typically dub to cassette and listen to that, and I'm heartbroken
over the speck of grunge that seems to have gotten welded to my *Planets*
LP while I wasn't looking: so even that practice isn't guaranteed to
keep your records in reasonable shape). So, what difference does it
make how much better, if any, that half-speed mastered virgin vinyl
LP sounds the first time you play it with a new stylus?

						James Jones