20% off Vinyl at JB Hi-Fi
This is instore only, part of their EOFYS
Saw it walking past today
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20% off Vinyl at JB Hi-Fi (Instore Only)
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I do.
Vinyl is coming back (although it has always existed), not just because of hipsters, but because people like to "own" things physically. You can buy everything digital, yet it never really feels like you own it. Vinyl for example is a bit of a niche market, but it provides for better audio quality and it is tangible.
Mind you, i've never owned a Vinyl.
Yeah, no.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_revival
Well it is undeniably growing in sales. I, as well as many others enjoy having physical copies of something whilst having it stored digitally.
but better audio quality?
@NachoMafia: It is literally a physical replication of sound vibrations, a new vinyl record is the best quality format you can buy.
ok ok, I'll take my humble pie then :)
@NachoMafia: yes, with a good vinyl pressing and even with average audio equipment better sound quality can be had then many lossless digital recordings with expensive equipment. There's a reason why audiophiles use DAC's to replicate the analogue signal vinyl equipment produces naturally
@Aids: Unless there was no digital step in the work flow, which I doubt as I'd hazard a guess that recording and mastering would be digital, then it wouldn't make a difference, as the physical sound vibrations that are replicated come from a digital signal. And even if it was a completely analogue process, I'd still say that digital has a higher resolution even though vinyl is a physical representation of the waveform. Manufacturing can only be so accurate.
Whether or not one may prefer the vinyl sound is subjective. But objectively, the output from vinyl can't be higher quality in terms of the information it's passing through.
@Max Power: the majority of which in most devices is the bare minimum requirements to do the job. Not a single one of my friends could tell you what a DAC is let alone the majority of people or how important it can be to sound quality. Audiophiles will use a high end independant DAC device to get the best from their music not just the stock on thier soundcard/laptop/music player etc.
But ultimately its preference of the listener. I have digital/lossloss set up too but prefer to listen to vinyl of the music i do have on that medium through the 30+ year old amp/turntable analogue gear i saved from my parents!
The world works in cycles. I hope CDs come back. I'd be confident that they would except digital is licenced to buyer, while CDs and vinyl can be resold. So multinationals wouldn't really like CDs and vinyl where ownership can pass
flac is better than vinnyl
@jubba: not always, even average vinyl audio equipment can out perform highend digital equipment.
But that can be subjective to the individual.
Many people do. I know it's a bad way to do it but I've listened to vinyls over youtube and I enjoy the sound of them over the digital version most of the time. If they're better quality or not is subjective…
From what I've read digital has the capacity to be better but the dynamic range of digital is very often crushed to make them sound loud and "impressive" on shitty consumer grade stereos. Mastering on the vinyl copies is said to be often better because it's pressed for a niche market that are already paying more for this medium so it'd stand to reason that they're probably going to have good quality equipment to play it on.
As much as I'm interested in vinyl I only own one modern vinyl at the moment and some that I've inherited but no turntable so I mainly have it for a decoration. I'm also going to buy one of my favourite albums of all time on deluxe vinyl just for the album art because I think it's amazing and worth the $100.
Hipsters, they're no threat. The ones we need to be cautious of is those beatniks.
Don't let jazz LPs fall into the hands of Beatniks, or else we'll be drowning in turtleneck sweaters and pseudo intellectualism.
who even uses vinel theese dayz