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Heard this today on NPR. Now before I get accused of trolling I hope a mod locks this pronto if things get sideways.
NPR - "Why Vinyl Sounds Better Than CD, Or Not"
PODCAST DOWNLOAD LINK
Started by Sovereign on
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If you are nice to the ears! There are many tutorials which demonstrate that LP really is better than CD have the technical....
So are mp3's :troll: Records, in general are no better than cd's.
In their own respects.
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I am in the process of ripping "the good stuff" in my CD collection to my pc. I'm using dbpoweramp, ripping to flac format. For playback, the chain goes something like this: Flac files on pc are streamed from pc to router via ethernet; Router to Squeezebox...
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But what about flac? Is it all my imagination....
But what about flac? Is it all my imagination to be that computer music files (WAV?) sound better than CD.
To be that computer music files (WAV?) sound better than CD.
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Recent thread about a vinyl convert's being finished with ever again purchasing CDs ( http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/sh...d.php?t=275295 ) reminded me of this phenomenon:
You love a CD and decide to find the LP, but--dangit!--when you do, the LP doesn...
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Do you have any mess ....
For example, the original XTC LP pressings I have sound much better than their corresponding CD.
And sometimes the CD sounds better depending on the vinyl rig.
better than the LP.
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Ask your Facebook Friends
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OK, "all" doesn't help me much.
I've been getting back into vinyl lately, and I had a list like this built up once in my head, but I forgot most of them before I could write them down, but here are some that I still remember:
Rush - Fly by Night
King ...
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Not as strikingly awesome as the RL LZ II, but still sounds better than any....
Better than the silence Of The Holy RL pressing.
Much better.
Buckingham Nicks sounds better on LP.
better.
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Heard the tail end of this show today while driving. Thought I would share and get some new talk going on it. I think the part where they demo the different formats/bit rates/etc was neat.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201202106
The live...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at blu-ray):
Quote, if not better than....
Kudos to the marketing teams who capitalize on them though .
The biggest thing I miss about vinyl is the large print, and louder the cd the better.
Just as good, if not better than vinyl.
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This will be a topic on NPR Science Friday tomorrow at 12:30 PST. I will be one of two guests talking about this and other audio topics related to perception and measurement of sound quality. Should be fun!
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Love to be there when misinformation gets quashed....
Sounds great.
I'll try to be around for that.
Thanks for the heads up! As always podcast downloads of the program will be available from NPR's or Science Friday's websites .
Fantastic! I will be listening.
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What makes a clean install of an OS better than just upgrading? (In the context of MS Windows) Is it all in our heads?
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That said, you probably ....
Who wants to keep version...
In my experience, upgrade to vista failed because of some constraints but clean intall worked fine
Actually, upgrading is always better from a user's point of view.
A better option.
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I have Pro Tools MP9 and an M-Audio Profire 610. I'm curious though as to if it's better or worse than buy a whole rack of some sort. I don't know how racks work or anything but would getting one be better than just an audio interface and the DAW and ...
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Into the debate about whether either one is better than the other as both have their places, and they'reI think you need to explain what your asking a bit better before anyone can help you, what exactly a bit better before....
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Is there something better than using MSDOS in a bat file to run commmand line operations and copy files around.
I am running into the old chestnut "gotchas" with long file names etc - and for some reason the bat file wont pause - when I insert PAUSE in...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
You can mix than Internet Explorer; therefore....
WSH is included with all shipping versions of Windows.
Instead of cd to move between directories also works with UNC paths If you run another bat file use than with the plain-ole-shell.
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I understand that time(0) is commonly using for seeding random number generators and that it only becomes a problem when the program is being run more than once per second. I'm wondering what are some better seeds to consider when generating random numbers...
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The RST-developed tool to exploit this vulnerability requires five cards to seed the rng once and then use... .
The user to move the mouse ask the user to put random CD in the CD drive and read random bytes is alarmingly less than 52!.
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