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On 2006-11-02, Dave Plowman (News)
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Serge Auckland
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The converse is not true:- An LP cut from a CD will not
sound identical, whatever mastering it has gone
through. There are those who think the LP will sound
better, that's fine as their opinion, but the fact that
it *is* different means that CD is a transparent medium
(what you put in you get out) whilst LP is not.

You can say this 'till you're blue in the face but it
won't make a scrap of difference to vinyl freaks. Vinyl
*adds* realism to anything. Magic it may be but how and
why they don't care.

It is called "habit", "sentimentality", and "ritual".

Also Vinyl allows people to create different sounds on
the fly by moving the record by hand forwards &
backwards; something that cannot be done easily with a
CD.

Actually, that's a solved problem, two different ways.

(1) There are "DJ" CD players that simulate a LP being "scratched".

http://www.djdeals.com/denonDNS1000.htm

(2) There is software that simulates very similar things using a mouse.

http://cdscratch.com/

It is quite possible that the ability to move the
records is a main reason that vinyl is in demand since
the records get "ruined" and the sonic qualities of the
recorded material doesn't matter.