Re: [ARSCLIST] "All hail the analogue revolution..."

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The worst canned ca-ching sound is that checkbook program from the people who do Quickbooks, of 
course forgot the name of it (I am still stuck in 1806 and write checks by hand and keep my 
checkbook "analog").

Vinyl is definitely not going quietly into the grave. I'd call it a fringe format now, but it's a 
profitable niche for some and the vinyl-philes are a very enthusiastic bunch (and, apparently, 
unlike some audio circles, those with loud mouths in that world also seem willing to spend some 
money). I noticed in the latest BSW equipment circular that a featured product is a new Numark 
turntable that has a built-in preamp and USB interface -- vinyl right to computer sampling program 
in one unit. Very smart.

One of the more bizarro CD's I've bought over the past couple of years was this one:
http://www.bluenote.com/detail.asp?SelectionID=10466
This is a German "DJ cooperative" and the CD is dubs of Blue Note LPs with their "special sauce" 
processing. Aside from some bad music choices, it's actually not a terrible album.

Final vinyl word. I find the sound most pleasing of tunes I've transferred from LP and then ripped 
to MP3. It might be that in many cases the original vinyl mastering engineer made better choices 
than the CD remaster engineer did, but the iPod puts out some pleasing grooves for my ears. And no, 
I don't like ticks and pops and yes I remove the bad ones and don't bother with badly damaged 
records.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RA Friedman" <rafriedman@xxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] "All hail the analogue revolution..."


> I doubt that vinyl will make a comeback but there is something to be said for controls that are 
> physical rather than virtual, that you can just hit without looking.
>
> I just noticed that one of the new Canon digital cameras was hailed for having "analogue-like" 
> buttons, etc. I suspect this trend will continue . Who wants to wade through a million menus? 
> Still, I'm a bit freaked out by electronic cash registers that have a canned "cha-ching" sound!
>
> RA Friedman
> Rights and Reproductions
> Historical Society of PA
>
> -----Original Message----- 
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> http://crave.cnet.co.uk/digitalmusic/0,39029432,49283730,00.htm
>
> "...What pleasure is there to be had in clicking a virtual button with a
> mouse? Very little, really. Whereas the slightly precarious operation of
> placing a record on a platter and dropping the needle seems like a
> surgical procedure of a kind that most modern automation has tried to
> completely erase..."