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Originally Posted by Alex's Trip
Are LPs really that much better. I want to get a record player and I want to buy some LPs but I can't affor it right now. I still find it hard to imagine it being that much better, but I've only heard CDs and mp3s my whole life.
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It depends on what you want. I sometimes prefer the sonic perfection of a CD. I other times like LPs for better representation of the art work. These days new releases and remastered reissues sound very close, to my ears, in both formats (aside from the usual minor surface noise and occassional pop or click you get w/ viny)l.
And it depends on what you're used to. I grew up collecting LPs. Because I cut my teeth on LPs, CDs to me seemed sort of like a yuppified version of 8-tracks. Too small, too reductive, too techy. Plus a new vinyl LP just SMELLS so great. Go ahead, try it, take a big whiff of that thing just out of the shrink wrap and tell me it doesn't send a thrill.