From: tak2@Isis.MsState.Edu (Thomas A. Kreeger)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: CD vs Vinyl (was Re: Vinyl ? Don't make me laugh. Yep, it's flame war !!!)
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:27:51 GMT
Organization: Mississippi State University

Well I would like to throw in some comments on this fight.

	First I like both Vinyl and CD's.  So you can't "Really" call
	me onesided.

	Second. I should explain why I like both.

	Vinyl is the probably the defacto standard for dance, cult,
	obscure, or otherwise underfunded music.
	It is true that as of today you can't scratch/mix/play with
	grooves on a CD.  While people throw the idea of scratching
	CD's around in other newsgroups, I don't think it will happen
	with either the CD's or laserdisks currently purchased.

	Vinyl CAN have the same musical clarity of CD's until you 
	start replacing the ear with a test microphone, and then
	Vinyl starts to fall short of the CD.  With a nice turntable,
	you can pretty much be asured of not hearing the "hiss" between
	tracks.  Some of the better turntables even have tracking 
	controls similar to CD's and some even replace the needle with
	a laser-beam, removing the argument of media decay.

	My roommate has tons'o 12" singles and albums.  I
	get to play these all the time and the sound is miles
	above cassette and except for occasional dust build up
	just as good as the CD's.  His turntable is a mid-level
	Pioneer component turntable, so you don't have to have
	a good one.

	And music just can't be called groovy if it don't got no
	grooves.....

	CD's on the otherhand are the choice of convience unlike 
	albums.   Sure they are expensive but then albums aren't
	that great a deal now-adays either.  CD's have are the
	easiest and most convienent way to get high quality music.
	Unfortunately, CD's are hard to play around with.

	I personally am no longer in pessesion of any Vinyl, but
	I do have an extensive collection of CD's.  I have picked
	up about 65 full-length CD's and about 10 CD singles, two
	thirds of which were used, in less than 5 months and there
	isn't really any mainstream artists in my entire collection,
	so yes you can find many obscure albums and singles on
	CD and everywhere I look I see more CD remasters or reprints
	being offered everday.

	The most bothersome and hopefully soon to be the most
	interesting thing about CD's is the fact that you have
	to have a computer to play one.  with a tape player or
	turntable you can understand where the music is be looking
	at the record being played, you can probably put together a
	cheap turntable in a weekend with out even looking at instructions
	or anything, but you have to have a degree or a good kit to 
	put together a CD-player.  But then soon the computer inside
	the CD-player is no longer going to just playback, and skip
	around.  Two or three CD-players are due out that will allow
	you to vary the pitch of the CD, and several let you assert
	sound enviornments to the music like surround sound.  Ideas
	are being test to allow you to skip to smaller sections of
	a track, but not like the Index functions.  These skip functions
	would be more like a guage as to how far along the track is.

	I don't think that Vinyl will die, becuase of nostalga, 
	audio-philes, and dance industry.  But I do think that
	cassettes will die, now that CD's are just as convienent
	and playable as cassettes are.  

	Maybe this is just a matter of my flame is bigger than yours
	but I say that Vinyl and CD's have there respective places.

	Later
	Zamfield

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