Why vinyl

@limomangus I’m only a couple of years behind you, but still think there’s something a bit special about vinyl. 

Recently, I stumbled upon a tweak to my streaming setup that has shrunk the gap in sound quality. I have spent a couple weeks enjoying the sound of ripped CDs again. Some of them sound amazing.

However, when I go back to vinyl, it’s like "Wow! This is something else." There is a lot to be said for having the ability to switch between formats, if you can bear the cost.

Vive la difference. 

Vinyl records are primarily made from Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC), a durable thermoplastic polymer, often combined with Polyvinyl Acetate (PVA) for flexibility. Digital is ones and zeros stored on typically cheaper CD’s or disk drives  

Getting back to the top of this post; it’s the micro bits of imperfections that’s so dang pleasing to hear. 

Ironically with vinyl some noise is Aok where as digital noise is the enemy. 

Sadly the price of vinyl and all the fixings is a barrier. 

@wsrrsw 

Vinyl records are primarily made from Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC), a durable thermoplastic polymer, often combined with Polyvinyl Acetate (PVA) for flexibility. Digital is ones and zeros stored on typically cheaper CD’s or disk drives  

Getting back to the top of this post; it’s the micro bits of imperfections that’s so dang pleasing to hear. 

Ironically with vinyl some noise is Aok where as digital noise is the enemy. 

Thank you. If this is true, it explains a lot, such as why digitised vinyl still sounds good like vinyl. I like it.

If anybody ever comes up with a way to add that noise to digital files, they would be on a winner.

@newton_john (Hi to Olivia)

 If this is true, it explains a lot, such as why digitised vinyl still sounds good like vinyl. I like it.

True DAT y'alls*

*As they in NOLA (happy childhood days and still have plenty of lifetime down home time there..... but No Cal is where I hang my hat)