This just further proves it's piracy as the cause. Every audiophile knows that vinyl records are far higher quality than CDs. Pirates can only make inferior digital recordings of vinyl, so they don't bother. Thus, they are forced to buy the vinyl records. Since we see many-fold increase in vinyl sales, we have a glimpse of what CD sales would be like without piracy. So, vinyl is literally a natural DRM that both protects the artists and ensures superior sound quality. Now, would you like to buy some Monster USB cables? Guaranteed to improve your typing and mouse speed.
Whoa are you trying to say that if your product is good and provides a nice return for the dollar people would buy it? Quick someone tell the RIAA that not ripping off customers is like some sort of "magical DRM".
Actually, I would love to have digital copies of my vinyl. But I don't want my digitizations made from my merely excellent Rega turntable and Sumiko Blue Point Special cartridge. I want a digital copy made by someone with a $400,000 half-ton fetishistic engineering turntable bolted to a 5-ton marble slab in an underground vault with a cartridge handmade by the nearly blind Japanese master, running through the discontinued $25,000 Boulder phono pre-amp and then to the latest hand-built by a cranky ex-recor
Not quite true - high end compact cassette (or open reel) recorders can record vinyl quite accurately from my experience. Do I need digital recording? Not really. Is the analogue recording portable? Hell yeah. And not much larger or heavier than a modern MP3 player either. Drawbacks? Limited playtime, and ultimately, lifespan of the magnetic tape used in the cassette cartridge.
You are right in that the music studios pushed CDs because they could control illegal recordings of said material easier (wel
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Just further proves it's piracy (Score:5, Funny)
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digital copies of vinyl (Score:2)
Actually, I would love to have digital copies of my vinyl. But I don't want my digitizations made from my merely excellent Rega turntable and Sumiko Blue Point Special cartridge. I want a digital copy made by someone with a $400,000 half-ton fetishistic engineering turntable bolted to a 5-ton marble slab in an underground vault with a cartridge handmade by the nearly blind Japanese master, running through the discontinued $25,000 Boulder phono pre-amp and then to the latest hand-built by a cranky ex-recor
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monster cables?!? F*CK THAT SH1T! Denon Cat 5! (Score:1)
This is the only cable [amazon.com] you should ever use to cable your ethernet-enabled turntable to your McIntosh amp...
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Not quite true - high end compact cassette (or open reel) recorders can record vinyl quite accurately from my experience. Do I need digital recording? Not really. Is the analogue recording portable? Hell yeah. And not much larger or heavier than a modern MP3 player either. Drawbacks? Limited playtime, and ultimately, lifespan of the magnetic tape used in the cassette cartridge.
You are right in that the music studios pushed CDs because they could control illegal recordings of said material easier (wel