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This seems more like wishful thinking than fact.
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Amazon's top home audio product this holiday was a turntable, besting an Apple AirPlay-compatible r
I think quite a few people think vinyl sounds better than other mediums and valves sound better than solid state amplification, due to the limitations and inadequacies of the human auditory system, not in spite of it. The distortions inherent in these systems can create what is perceived as a warm and maybe slightly fuzzy sound that many people prefer...the analogue sound I suppose.sflocal said:
Ya know.. I'm from that vinyl generation too. I'll meet you halfway... couple vinyl with a good tube-driven amplifier, and the music is just delicious, even with my bad hearing... I/We still have hundreds of vinyl albums that span decades that we just don't want to get rid of. That being said, I haven't listened to vinyl in decades. I need convenience and 99.9% of the time, I'm listening to music in an environment that would never bring out the qualities anyways, but I do respect the old-school medium.Prof_Peabody said:The only people who really believe the vinyl is a decent recording medium are those too young to remember what it was like when that's all we had. I struggle not to laugh out loud when some young hipster is trying to convince me of the superiority of their vinyl records and how they capture the "true sound" of the artist and all that BS.
Speaking as a former owner of a 10,000 record collection (when vinyl was king) ... the sound quality is awful, even a single play of a record basically ruins it, the equipment is ridiculously "fiddly," it also produces heavily distorted sound and is as about far from "archival" as one can get.
Even back in the day, a real collector would only play their vinyl record for the one time that was necessary to transfer it to tape or CD. Then they played the tape or the CD and put the vinyl away. Vinyl not only sucks, it pretty much always has.
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Apple Music reportedly preparing Hi Res Audio streaming for 2016
I hope this rumor is true, even if it's from a usually inaccurate source. As for the 3.5mm jack being limited to CD quality, that's nonsense. It's an analogue source and the quality depends on the amplification powering it. There are many external DACs available and dedicated Hi-Res audio players that use the same 3.5mm jack that sound noticeably better than the iPhone with an appropriate quality recording and headphones.
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Apple has taken over Qualcomm's IMOD Mirasol display lab in Taiwan
This is quite an exciting development, if Apple could pull this off, this display tech could be a game changer for the industry! I hope they can and that it won't take too long.
