KEK! I'm greatly amused by "audiophiles." They have more money than brains. There was this scam; don't forget the coating the edges of the CD with a colored marker supposedly reduced or eliminated the amount of stray light reflecting of the disc’s edges, producing “better” or “cleaner” sound. KEK. Come on! In an analog format, I might have fallen for that shit. If it were true, the CD pressing plants would have added that to the edge. I love all the "high end", gold plated power cables and gold plated connectors for digital cables. Yea, they looked pretty and all, but did nothing to improve the sound.
Then there's the vinyl record craze. Another amusing audiophile nonsense. Basically, vinyl causes all kinds of distortions (I won't go into now). People just like all the compression and equalizations that must be introduced into the audio chain to produce vinyl so the needle won't jump out of the groove during playback.
Have you read the nonsense that Mobile Fidelity was doing to their vinyl? (audioholics.com) Essentially, they used digital source material while advertising it as original analog tape. Frankly, I don't mind using digital masters because the analog masters age and deteriorate. It makes sense to do that. But, it's fake: a lie. However, this fits in today's fake world.
I find it oddly funny that you can go to best buy and buy vinyl but not a single CD can be found in the entire store.
This makes sense in a digital world where high speed internet is common.
My point is you can still buy a record, a format that is well over 150 years old, But not a CD, Which has barely been around for 40 years. DVD and Blu-Ray are also readily available and are even younger formats. I guess I should just be glad some kind of physical medium still exists. I don't really trust these all digital download and streaming things. Someday, someone else will simply decide you don't need to see or hear that anymore and snap... Its gone.
I would be fine with modern vinyl if it was cut the way they used to live. Or recorded using a 100% analog signal chain and dumped that to vinyl after mixing. But you are right, modern vinyl is just dumping digital to a vinyl cutter.
My biggest problem is all the fakery going on. Let's face it, we live in a fake world. Everything around us is fake. Apparently, people love it.
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