I did and failed. I don’t want to waste that many hours of my life trying again. So they lose out on an amazing seeder and I lose out on good access to music.
I have a whole pipeline of recording my vinyl as 96kHz 24bit wav. Before people start greefing me about storage/overkill, I work in media production. I can’t walk into my closet without tripping over 5 TB of hard drives. Storage is not a problem and I like using the best encoding on my H6.
I cut the recordings up into record “sides,” then render them out as flac and MP3s. MP3s go on my phone, flac on my Plex server. I have 110 or so sides done, and probably 30 or 40 in the pipeline that need to be edited. I just need to carve out some time!
hahahaha it’s been really fun! I run my Technics 1200 Mk II -> Numark mixer (nothing special but solid, from my college DJing days) -> Zoom h6 (left and right channels get their own inputs) -> bring into editing software, combine the two channels, chop off the beginning and end as well as silence/dead air between sides, then run it all through Compressor to create “sides” as described above.
Despite vinyl’s technical inferiority, it was those same limitations that meant vinyl actually sounded better than CD throughout a specific period. Vinyl cannot be too loud or the needle will jump off the track, making the vinyl unplayable. This prevented vinyl from dealing with the loudness wars, and brick wall dynamic range compression. So especially for the early 2000s, the masters used for the vinyl mix were often significantly better.
And, a clean record played on clean and properly set up equipment can sound really pristine, especially if copied to a digital format early in its life. You wouldn’t even be able to tell it’s vinyl.
+1 to all you said. I collect vinyl for a number of reasons and none of them are because it is technically superior (it isn’t) however, many (most?) people have never heard just how good vinyl can actually sound when it’s in good condition and played on a good setup. I personally cannot tell the difference between even a 33 and CD, let alone a 45, and I have a decently high end setup.
My ears like to trick me and tell me I can hear a difference between a 33 and 45 but I’m pretty sure this is a lie.
Not to mention, psychoacoustics don’t really give a damn about fidelity, so if your goal is “I want it to sound good to me” moreso than “I want it to reproduce sounds accurately” then there’s arguments for vinyl, tube amplifiers, vintage speakers, etc.
Hell I have a friend who specifically uses one of the earliest CD players because it had a 14 bit DAC and no oversampling vs 16 bit DAC, and for those few albums he really likes the digital distortion that comes with it because that’s how he first heard it.
I do a pretty robust cleaning/digitization process for my vinyl but you can definitely tell it’s vinyl. There’s just no way you won’t get a little wow/flutter on quieter stuff, and there’s always that distinct background sound/cracks and pop somewhere.
But yes the quality can be incredibly high. That’s just part of the fun!
Compared to CD? If you have to compare it to a lossy compressed format to make it look good in comparison, then maybe it’s not that good overall. You may have noticed it’s no longer the early 2000s and CDs are not ubiquitous, nor even very common at all anymore.
Lossy compressed format? Where? Are you talking about CD? The format famous for using uncompressed PCM audio perfectly specified to cover 100% of a human’s hearing range?
Because if that’s what you mean, you’ve got some studying to go do.
This is the way. Also, FLAC for high bit rate audiophile vinyl rips.
I literally got goosebumps reading that. Take my Iron Maiden collection for example:
I have mp3 versions of all albums. Different release versions of FLACs and then a vinyl FLAC collection as well.
It’s nice exploring the difference in sound, but somehow, vinyl always makes me feel the best.
Man I miss what.cd.
I miss Oink’s :(
That too :(
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I did and failed. I don’t want to waste that many hours of my life trying again. So they lose out on an amazing seeder and I lose out on good access to music.
I have a whole pipeline of recording my vinyl as 96kHz 24bit wav. Before people start greefing me about storage/overkill, I work in media production. I can’t walk into my closet without tripping over 5 TB of hard drives. Storage is not a problem and I like using the best encoding on my H6.
I cut the recordings up into record “sides,” then render them out as flac and MP3s. MP3s go on my phone, flac on my Plex server. I have 110 or so sides done, and probably 30 or 40 in the pipeline that need to be edited. I just need to carve out some time!
I literally salivated.
hahahaha it’s been really fun! I run my Technics 1200 Mk II -> Numark mixer (nothing special but solid, from my college DJing days) -> Zoom h6 (left and right channels get their own inputs) -> bring into editing software, combine the two channels, chop off the beginning and end as well as silence/dead air between sides, then run it all through Compressor to create “sides” as described above.
Gotta use that lossless format so you can pick up all the sound artefacts caused by an imperfect physical format.
Despite vinyl’s technical inferiority, it was those same limitations that meant vinyl actually sounded better than CD throughout a specific period. Vinyl cannot be too loud or the needle will jump off the track, making the vinyl unplayable. This prevented vinyl from dealing with the loudness wars, and brick wall dynamic range compression. So especially for the early 2000s, the masters used for the vinyl mix were often significantly better.
And, a clean record played on clean and properly set up equipment can sound really pristine, especially if copied to a digital format early in its life. You wouldn’t even be able to tell it’s vinyl.
+1 to all you said. I collect vinyl for a number of reasons and none of them are because it is technically superior (it isn’t) however, many (most?) people have never heard just how good vinyl can actually sound when it’s in good condition and played on a good setup. I personally cannot tell the difference between even a 33 and CD, let alone a 45, and I have a decently high end setup.
My ears like to trick me and tell me I can hear a difference between a 33 and 45 but I’m pretty sure this is a lie.
Not to mention, psychoacoustics don’t really give a damn about fidelity, so if your goal is “I want it to sound good to me” moreso than “I want it to reproduce sounds accurately” then there’s arguments for vinyl, tube amplifiers, vintage speakers, etc.
Hell I have a friend who specifically uses one of the earliest CD players because it had a 14 bit DAC and no oversampling vs 16 bit DAC, and for those few albums he really likes the digital distortion that comes with it because that’s how he first heard it.
I do a pretty robust cleaning/digitization process for my vinyl but you can definitely tell it’s vinyl. There’s just no way you won’t get a little wow/flutter on quieter stuff, and there’s always that distinct background sound/cracks and pop somewhere.
But yes the quality can be incredibly high. That’s just part of the fun!
Compared to CD? If you have to compare it to a lossy compressed format to make it look good in comparison, then maybe it’s not that good overall. You may have noticed it’s no longer the early 2000s and CDs are not ubiquitous, nor even very common at all anymore.
Lossy compressed format? Where? Are you talking about CD? The format famous for using uncompressed PCM audio perfectly specified to cover 100% of a human’s hearing range?
Because if that’s what you mean, you’ve got some studying to go do.