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Originally Posted by MattT
My retro is vinyl records....nothing beats that analogue sound except live performance....CD's, iTunes, rubbish I say.
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I am quite the opposite, I prefer CD's.
I grew up with vinyl and in my day had a quite extensive collection of LP's, EP's and singles, I still retain some of my vinyl. I remember when CD's first came out as my family were early adaptors of this technology. To me, when I first heard CD's they were a breath of fresh air. There were no pops and scratches and noise was almost non existent (vinyl has a poor noise to signal ratio which incidently maybe the attraction of vinyl to many).
The vinyl vs CD argument is legendary, people on each side of the arguments trying to convince each other of the superiority of their chosen audio format. But, in the end what is the "superior" listening experience? It is a subjective and even emotional one. I loved buying vinyl LP's with the large artwork on the cover then carefully placing the LP on the turntable and cranking up the volume, fine memories indeed. However, for a complete audio experience I believe CD's are streets ahead of vinyl.
BTW, Mp3's are not that great and I tend not to buy them as the quality is lower than similar priced hard copy CD's. If you want the convenience of MP3's it is better the rip them from existing CD's (or vinyl).