[sdiy] Nifty Slider/Fader alert

[harrybissell]

Just like Analog Modulars... vinyl still lives. Some folk buy the original
product in excellent condition. Others have re-issued the product in what
could be called better-than-ever condition....

It still has seen its day in the sun. It will never be what it once was... time
has
marched on, maybe so should we  :^P

btw how did this thread (interesting as it is) get to be "Nifty Slider/Fader
alert" ???

H^) harry

Rude 66 wrote:

> >          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./