At 12:29 PM 3/30/01 +0000, richard n wrote:
>Am I right in assuming the common consensus that vinyl
>has better quality than cds?
>I am wondering how this can be when, before being pressed, the music
>on vinyl is *already* in digital form.
>If you take an audio tape and convert to cd, its not going to sound better
>than the original.
>So why does digital music converted to vinyl feel better than cds?
>cheer
>richard
<looks at watch> Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Welcome to the first
CD vs. Vinyl debate of 2001!
j/k
Not *all* music on vinyl is in digital form, but a good deal of current
music is.
But you do bring up a point, and no one's mentioned it before. Turntablism
is a vinyl artform, and no one could or should argue with that. But being a
selector, that just involves playing and blending *tunes* and moving the
crowd, which shouldn't care whether the music is running at 33 1/3 RPM or
44.1 KHz.
I do think there's a certain elitism (yes, ELITISM) when it comes to music
on vinyl. I'd give my music to DJs on CD, and they'll be like, "yeah,
whatever." But then later (after saving up enough dough to make dubplates,
which cost $40 each to make), I'll give them the SAME music and all of a
sudden people will start to listen to my music. You've heard it here on
this list: People saying, "Oh, I don't listen to CDs" as if they're some
sort of higher life form. What the fuck? That's closed-mindedness right
there. You can give them the wackest song on vinyl and the dopest song on
CD, and they'll only listen to the wack song.
You *DO* have to be in a certain income bracket to put out vinyl records --
make the master, the test pressings, etc. Even dubplates are NOT cheap.
Either that or be fortunate enough to be signed to a label where they can
take care of that for you. If you're Mr. Wunderkind Bedroom Producer who
suddenly created The Dopest Track In The World, but only have enough
resources to pay $1-$3 for a blank CD and burn it on a friend's CD Writer,
forget it. NO ONE will play it in a club (it might get played on radio,
since radio compression makes most of the audible differences between CD,
DAT, MD and vinyl imperceptible). Why? Cos it's not on vinyl (read "It's
not real music.") Discrimination? I think so.
Ideally, all DJ booths should have two 1200s AND two CD decks. Fuck this
vinyl elitism thing, I just want good music.
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