BS: Convert CDs to Vinyl?

Subject: RE: BS: Convert CDs to Vinyl?
From: CarolC
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 09:16 PM

My hearing is acute also, and I definitely hear a difference. But maybe I was listening to stuff that was recorded before they started digitizing even the stuff that ended up on vinyl when I made my comparisons.

Subject: RE: BS: Convert CDs to Vinyl?
From: Melissa
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 09:21 PM

leeneia-When I was a kid, tin-cone jingles were made from Skoal lids.


I hear a difference in sound between the two but it's more like the way it tastes to my ear than something I'd try to describe as a Sound thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Convert CDs to Vinyl?
From: CarolC
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 09:23 PM

When you say, "the way it tastes to my ear", are you talking about the way the vibrations feel in your ear?

Subject: RE: BS: Convert CDs to Vinyl?
From: Melissa
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 09:31 PM

no, Carol..I would have called that 'the way it feels' in my ear and I guess saying 'taste' is kind of weird but it's what I mean--I almost said 'flavor'..but that didn't seem accurate at the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Convert CDs to Vinyl?
From: CarolC
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 09:52 PM

I feel like I might know what you're talking about, Melissa, because I experience things in my ear that I wouldn't describe as sound, either, but I also don't know how they might be described.

One thing that I do use to describe how I experience analog (real analog), is texture and having air or an atmosphere. To me, digital is flat, thin, and airless, and analog has texture, depth, and air.

Subject: RE: BS: Convert CDs to Vinyl?
From: Melissa
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 09:58 PM

Sort of like the difference between water and distilled water, Carol?

Subject: RE: BS: Convert CDs to Vinyl?
From: CarolC
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 10:42 PM

Hmm... I actually like the taste of distilled as compared to most tap water, but I think I get your meaning. I guess I would use a cartoon like Yogi Bear, as compared to a Monet painting. This is just in regard to the flatness, etc of it and not the quality of the work that is being reproduced in sound.

Subject: RE: BS: Convert CDs to Vinyl?
From: Melissa
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 10:46 PM

ha..sort of like Polaroidville in the Stephen King story called 'Sundog' (or something like that)

Subject: RE: BS: Convert CDs to Vinyl?
From: Skivee
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 03:56 PM

Seamus, if you play your stereo really loudly into this, it will probably do the trick
Don't thank me. It's my pleasure

Subject: RE: BS: Convert CDs to Vinyl?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 06:03 PM

Skivee, that's a joke, right?

Subject: RE: BS: Convert CDs to Vinyl?
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 06:25 PM

The needles should be cactus, not bamboo!

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: Convert CDs to Vinyl?
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 06:33 PM

They also make this variety -- not a joke!

Subject: RE: BS: Convert CDs to Vinyl?
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 06:53 PM

Now those are definitely KOOOWALL!!! I want one, I really do. Hmmmmm....

Subject: RE: BS: Convert CDs to Vinyl?
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 11:51 PM

Skivee - that's it!! Thank you, thank you.

Now I can get the snap, crackle and pop back into my music! Yes!

Subject: RE: BS: Convert CDs to Vinyl?
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 11:22 AM

AND you can record it at speeds like 21.27 RPM!

Subject: RE: BS: Convert CDs to Vinyl?
From: Ross Campbell
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 09:57 PM

Everything you would need - serious commitment required!

Ross

Subject: RE: BS: Convert CDs to Vinyl?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 03:38 PM

Thanks, Ross. I never would have believed it...

Subject: RE: BS: Convert CDs to Vinyl?
From: gnu
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 03:40 PM

Serious coin involved!

Subject: RE: BS: Convert CDs to Vinyl?
From: Ross Campbell
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 08:05 PM

Serious learning curve too - people who used to drive these machines would have put their user-friendliness up there with driving a 747 without electronic assistance - very much a hands-on process, with very little scope for electro-mechanical equivalents of the fixes and aids available in the digital realm.

Good luck!

Ross

Subject: RE: BS: Convert CDs to Vinyl?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 11:21 PM

Yew fokes are two much. Spinning a nice lady's head all around and around and around like this. I actually tried to READ and UNDERSTAND this thread. Y'oughtta be ashamed, especially that Kennedy Man-- you know who you are.


However, I do still "seem" to know this much:

1. Ah is not gettin' digital with no damn pig. AH don;t care even who it is or who it belongs to or if it's daid or kickin.

2. Ah has a shelf-ful of vinyl looking for a good home. If only a previous storaging friend had not let the jackets get moldy, and the relatively unscathed vinyl get dusty. But they are free to a good home, as many of the titles as are wanted, and if I knew what was wanted it would be worth my time to crawl into the place where they lie, unplayed, these many years.

(2a. Ah is not even gonna look in that shelf unless somebuddy asks me reel nice to go see if their pertickler gotta-haves are in there. They're in a cold, lonely spot someone else controls, where I'd have to lay me down on a cold icy floor I cannot get up from by myself, and Ah is not kissin' THAT room's boss's ass jes' for "fun", nor goin' digital with it nohow, neither! I jes' cain't this week!!!)

3. Ah haz a nearby friend with a whole, hoarded, houseful of vinyl Ah bet is in pristine condition. If I knew what stellar, vinylized artists anyone just HAD to have, I could prolly git him to part with a few, in a good cause.

4. Mudcat has gone way past my ability to follow what the HELL most of yew are tawkin about, most of this pertickler winter-- WhatEVer! I love yew all ANYWAY, so there!

(4a. Seamus, I can goddamn well gush whenever I please, so THERE! to YOU!)

:~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Convert CDs to Vinyl?
From: mousethief
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 11:28 PM

Everything you would need - serious commitment required!

Gosh that makes me wish I had posted a link to that site.

Oh wait.

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