On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Dylan wrote:
> At 11:42 AM 1/24/97 -0800, bijan wrote:
> >Yeah, yeah, I thought someone would pick me up on this!
> >
> >I keep procrastinating on the cd vs records question and it generally
> >comes down to "I can play cds in the car".
>
> Yeah, but you can play mixtapes in the car! :)
>
OK, if I make a decent number of mix-cds (I don't have tape in the car)
you have a good point (but i still need a dat player)
> >I know its pretty pitiful, but
> >it doesn't take much for me to avoid a $400 investment in one turntable.
>
> Yeah, I know. I probably would have gone the CD route if I didn't have a
> friend's turntables available to me when I started out. By the time I was
> ready to invest in my own equipment, I already had a substantial amount of
> vinyl that I couldn't see a)not using or b)duplicating by buying the CD
> version...
>
Looks like I'll need to pull a few friendly favours to get this one to fly
- unless I win a lottery, any lottery.
> >Besides, isn't it true that cds last longer than records? (Not at all an
> >invitation to argue cds vs vinyl, just a query!)
>
> Technically I suppose yes, because the record wears down a bit every time
> the needle passes through the groove, whereas on a CD all you have is a
> little light bouncing off it. A friend of mine also made an interesting
> point about analog vs. digital...he said: "If you get a 10% degradation in
> the information on a tape [same is true for a record], you can hear the
> difference, but [since digital is all zeros and ones] if you get a 10%
> degradation of a one, it's still a one."
>
seems like a red herring (re: lo-ki) and it's worth listening to vinyl for
the feel of it (i hate those cd trays!)
> >bijan
> >
> >(And I would need a dat recorder - something I ain't got!)
>
> True enough, but if you have enough HD space to load all that music in from
> CD, you could just mix your vinyl straight to the HD...(just playin' the
> devil's advocate ;)
>
hmmm, computer and 1200's in the lab!i don't the boss would go for that :)
> peace! Vinyl rules!
> D.
>
wishing-he-had-already-bought-some-turntables-AND-earned-more-money,
bijan
an aside: looks like one project is to back up my cds before they degrade
in 2010!