[sdiy] Nifty Slider/Fader alert

[Rude 66]

>          I am sorry, but I am afraid I am going to have to agree with Glen
> on this one....of all the vinyl pressings I had, I can remember only one
> that was crackle free.  You can make up all kinds of excuses up for vinyl,
> but the fact is, when compact disk players arrived for the first time at
> the local hi-fi store here (sometime around 1981, if I remember), I
> considered them a gift from the hi-fi gods, and was more than willing to
> pay the $900 that they cost back then (and that was for what would these
> days be considered a piece of crap).  The market place, I would say, has
> proved the point, just as right now, DVD is rapidly replacing video tape,
> CD's replaced both cassette tapes and phonograph records because CD's are
a
> good product.

oh yes, i remember this being a big issue with the introduction of cd's.
however, as i said, vinyl has come a long way. also, there's a very big
difference between lp's and 12" ep's, or disco singles. i have 12"es from
1977/78 that have not one crackle on them, but especially things like
compilation lp's with their tiny grooves and almost no dynamics are
absolutely awful. also vinyl has limitations like less highs towayds the end
of the record, which can really become noticable on bad pressings.

>
>          But that is also what is great about the world, you don't like
> CD's, then heck, don't buy them.  Who knows, maybe the best vinyl pressing
> is much better that the best CD pressing, but you know, I never saw
> one.  My worst CD is tons better than the best vinyl I ever purchased.

the problem is finding some things on vinyl.. but also a lot of music is
pressed on vinyl but never on cd. i have both unplayable records and
unplayabe cd's, so that evens out..;-)

i guess the point was that vinyl, like analogue synths, reel to reel
reocrders, etc is not the completely obsolete and crappy laughable
technology that the public generally believes it is. it can still hold its
own in the digital age...

r./