I still bring my iPod on planes. What outdated technology do you still use willingly on a regular basis?
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Surface noise. The delicious cracks and popples of the needle on rough vinyl is a splendid sound. Also the full play of an entire album is how most records were designed to be played. Sometimes the "small" songs are important counterpoints to the big popular ones.
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CDs give me the ability to play an entire album OR skip immediately to favorites.
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People have *trained themselves* to make those errors desirable...
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For the record, this article does a good job of breaking down the vinyl vs CDs vs digital format debate....and, of course, reinforces my preferences....so I'm sharing it.https://now.tufts.edu/articles/does-music-sound-better-vinyl-records-cds …
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Don’t know if you’ve read this, David. It’s a fascinating book. And it busts way open a load of the confirmation bias concerning listening to music using various media.pic.twitter.com/GbgYKU4NQl
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That's because any CD of a vinyl-era recording will have been remastered and mastering philosophy has substantially changed (many would say for the worse) in the intervening time. Big part of the problem is that whereas with vinyl where louder passages took up more physical 1/
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space on the medium than softer ones, on a CD there's no difference so the mastering engineer has an incentive to overcompress everything (Justin Bieber's second album was, thanks to compression, subjectively louder than both *Never Mind The Bollocks" and *Back In Black*). 2/2
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Not just the sound though, is it? Getting the thing out of the sleeve, giving it a bit of a clean, the art work on the sleeve, writing big enough to read...
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Sure, I do miss that...
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