Tapes, to my ears, have always been inferior to vinyl or digital CD. I can't get away from the fact that recorded information on tapes depends on the alignment of magnetic particles within the tape. Do these not interfere with themselves as they are wound on the spool. Also have consider tape stretch as well.
Well said Pete! Exactly so. A pox on the cassette and the lamentable quality it delivered.......
Vinyl is almost as bad.
Oh dear. And he was doing
so well....
What do you use to pick up vibrations from a record groove, a diamond, the hardest substance known to man. What are records make of, 2 oz of plastic, the two seem to be poor partners for each other.
Actually, for the purposes of manufacturing a record and playing it, the two substances have a fairly well-proven track record of some longevity as being well-suited as partners. Go on....
the photograph of that looks exquisite,wonder what it sounds like?-peace
And don't store them in direct sunlight, or next to radiators.
Oh yes, I forgot that. They are a nuisance LPs. For the same reason as fresh fruit, vegetables, meat, drinking water.....
A recent program on radio scotland discussed the merits of vinyl, seems that "serious" vinylophiles only listen to an album two or three times, so as not to damage it, and then use taped recordings, or in todays terminology, i-pods.
Well - to wrap up the banter and make a serious point, there probably are some that do. I think it's all about the warm, "real" sound of an LP that wins over those of us that still buy and play them. Early CD releases that had been "Rigidly De-mastered" sounded like they were recorded in a clinic, though it has improved. More often than not, the more pernickety vinyl fan will play an LP then buy another copy when it is believed that the record has started to deteriorate in sound quality. That's obviously going to be considered a nuisance for extra storage - assuming you don't sell the original to someone with an old-school music centre that can't hear the degradation anyway.
Staying with the topic of storage - one vinyl LP takes up less space than five copies of a CD that people tend to own by the time it has been released, re-released with bonus tracks, re-re-released with better sound quality and even more bonus tracks, licensed and released on a gold CD by Mobile Fidelity and re-re-re-released by the artist on their independant label after they buy the catalogue back and punt it out with a ten hour gig DVD of the same era that they "happen" to have found.
I have to say that to hear Greasy Truckers Party properly, you still have to go back to your vinyl - or if you want to hear Micky you do anyway.
