[sdiy] Nifty Slider/Fader alert

[Richard Wentk]

At 02:39 06/06/2004 +0200, Rude 66 wrote:
> >> We'll know when someone creates an all digital vinyl LP, read by a
> > digital turntable.  :-)
>
>well, there's final scratch, using records with time code locked ontp mp3's
>in a pc. using the 'vinyl interface' is important for dj's. and there are
>turntables with sp/dif outs, and that do timestretching.

Found out yesterday that the Technics SL1200 - which was considered a 
fairly nasty ttable when it appeared, but obviously did well in the DJ 
world - has been reinvented as a CD-playback system, for scratching and all 
of that.

Having strobe lights on the edge of a CD 'turntable' is rather surreal.

>btw a top hifi turntable doesn't have to cost much. something like a thorens
>can be found for next to nothing these days and is literally indestructable.

I'll bear that in mind if nuclear war ever looks imminent. :-)

>vinyl would also be the perfect backup medium.

No! 300 bps tape cassette is the perfect backup medium! :-)

Out of interest - has anyone ever tried doing blind tests with non-audio or 
non-engineering people about whether digital or analogue sounds better, in 
whatever form? That would be a very interesting thing to do, I think. If 
there really is a psychoacoustic bias towards certain technologies and 
kinds of distortion, understanding the hows and whys would be very worthwhile.

Richard