May I be first to wish you a happy birthday, how time flies as we get older. Have a good one.
May I be first to wish you a happy birthday, how time flies as we get older. Have a good one.
Aye, have a good 'un!
Poacher turned game-keeper
Thanks chaps! It will be excellent. All 3 kids plus family appendages flocking home tonight. Grandson spoiling ahoy!
Planning a group run with various son in laws/boyfriends up Sugarloaf tomorrow.
At last, another of my recent album buying splurge is coming good. 4 tracks into London Grammar and I'm loving it!
Happy Birthday Wheeze, I've bought myself one of these to celebrate your birthday!
https://www.flexson.com/stores/singl...&itemID=903497
I'm a bit confused by this all.
It seems to be:
Best listening experience: Live, so you can hear everything as it should be
Next best listening experience: Recorded using state-of-the-art techniques then scratched into the surface of a plastic disc and played back using a piece of kit initially developed over 100 years ago.
Worse listening experience: Recorded using state-of-the-art techniques and played back digitally so it sounds like when it was recorded.
Would it help if you got static and crackles at live gigs? It seems the best of both worlds.
The problem is that digital recording isn't really that great or accurate, the sound is compressed to fit onto a CD, digital radio is even worse as the banwidth isn't (made) available for the best quality. With analogue the information can be there but distorted to some extent, with digital much of it just isn't there. Most CD playes rely on a steady rotation of the disc by a fairly low tech motor without the heavy turntable to smooth things out. I have (good) book on this if your really interested.
Listening to Gaslight Anthem, whilst "working at home "so it's not very quite around here.
Now THAT looks just like what I am looking for. Might just invest myself! Still got a lot of vinyl not backed up.Originally Posted by dominion
Noel. Its all to do with waves and analogue transmission. Recording and playing music in an analogue format is always going to be better than taking analogue signal, translating it to digital, ouputting as digital and retranslating to analogue. Its all lost in translation!
I've heard people talk about issues with compression before. But to the human ear, it's imperceptible. Vinyl is nice and old-school, but the quality is a lot further away from the original than digital is.
But enough of this. I'm off for a quick ride on my penny farthing. You feel the torque a lot more without a chain to ruin it.
The main benefit for me is that I don't have to get up half way through and turn the darn'd thing over.
Oh, and you still need a huge pair of speakers for decent sound...
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