CD's or Vinyl?

[FogerRox]

NEew to the forum, call me Roger. I love my vinyl, how about you?

I think for me its the depth & separtion. Cant really do that on a CD. Being able to set reverb & echo on backup singers to place them at the rear of the aural picture, lead singer closer, having a huge drum kit and being able to place every piece in the mix, as if on stage.... Doesnt come off on a CD, even well remastered stuff on a cd is not the same.

Being able to paint an aural picture with depth, takes... for lack of a better term... bandwidth, a 65% sample rate doesnt allow you to place tracks in the front, rear, left & right, that takes room. Room that is not on a CD.

BTW I still have my 1971 Dual belt drive turntable.

Whatcha think?

[Ron Green]

1. You can take it even further,

with 2" Ampex tape running at 15 ips. Discrete tracks let you play a different mix every time.

[FogerRox]

2. My dad still has an Ampeg, from like 40 yrs ago, LOL

I would like to get my vinyl onto cassettes, recorded on a good machine, sigh.

[IowaGuy]

3. with all due respect,, Roger...I'm going the other way....

I understand nostalgia and all, ......and yeah, there are a lot of very well engineered vinyl recording out there...but CD's dynamic range is far superior to vinyl, along with the fact that digital is just a better medium to transfer information without distortion than the analog processes of yesteryear.

Nowadays from the first moment of capturing the analog sound from the artist - to the moment it is converted back to analog to be pushed through your amp to your speakers the whole signal train is digital - no loss or distortion of collected information whatsoever.

The old days the signal was distorted and degraded at every step along the path from tapes , to mastering the vinyl, to the distortion pumped in by the mechanical motion of the needle\magnetic coil structure, etc, etc.. Were there engineers that unsderstood the limitations and vagaries of such a system and were able to compensate to some degree with it...you bet; and my hat is off to them. However, I'll take a well engineered digital recording anytime over a well engineered vinyl.

(oh, and by the way, I do love my vinyl too...but it represents a very special place and time for me, I appreciate it...but I'm not going back) - please don't take offense at my difference of opinion re: your preferences...I guess I'm just hearing things differently.