The Truth About Vinyl - Vinyl vs. Digital
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I had no idea that recording onto vinyl was so complicated.
I wish he had talked about compression a bit more, getting into MP3 vs FLAC, etc.
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@Loki I just thought the whole process of how vinyl work was well-explained and interesting. I never understood the reasoning behind the RIAA curve and how equipment deals with it.
@George-K said in The Truth About Vinyl - Vinyl vs. Digital:
@Loki I just thought the whole process of how vinyl work was well-explained and interesting. I never understood the reasoning behind the RIAA curve and how equipment deals with it.
I was just having fun with you. I will check out later.
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He skipped over magnetic tape and compact disk. CD is digitized, so one can argue that music recorded on CD is not that different from downloaded or streamed digital music. But cassette tape recording is analog, and I would be surprised if analog magnetic recording of music does not have idiosyncrasies of its own that rival vinyl’s.
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He skipped over magnetic tape and compact disk. CD is digitized, so one can argue that music recorded on CD is not that different from downloaded or streamed digital music. But cassette tape recording is analog, and I would be surprised if analog magnetic recording of music does not have idiosyncrasies of its own that rival vinyl’s.
@Axtremus said in The Truth About Vinyl - Vinyl vs. Digital:
He skipped over magnetic tape and compact disk. CD is digitized, so one can argue that music recorded on CD is not that different from downloaded or streamed digital music. But cassette tape recording is analog, and I would be surprised if analog magnetic recording of music does not have idiosyncrasies of its own that rival vinyl’s.
Good point, and I was thinking about that. It certainly is analog, and there was a great interest in improving the quality of tape recording/playback in the day. Factors which were considered included the width of the tape, the number of tracks in a given width, and, of course, the speed of the tape moving over the head.
In 1972 (?) I bought an Akai reel-to-reel deck that was capable of moving ¼" wide tape over the heads at 7 ½ inches per second. I realized that, for my ears, I could hear no difference in 7 ips vs 3 ¾ ips, so that's what I used.
It was an Akai GX 330D:
