{"id":321,"date":"2012-04-15T17:29:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T00:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2019-07-23T03:01:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T10:01:20","slug":"audio-sometimes-vinyl-is-way-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/audio-sometimes-vinyl-is-way-better\/","title":{"rendered":"audio: sometimes vinyl is way better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Flat-Earth-Remastered-Expanded\/dp\/B0029358G2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"cover of The Flat Earth by Thomas Dolby\" src=\"\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51REMceRp9L.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/a>I stopped playing Thomas Dolby&#8217;s classic in the background because <a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Flat-Earth-Remastered-Expanded\/dp\/B0029358G2\">The Flat Earth &#8211; Remastered &amp; Expanded<\/a> didn&#8217;t sound as good as I remembered it. Switching between the CD and my original signed LP, the vinyl is decisively better: deeper bass, better piano, way more realistic speaking voice. The CD isn&#8217;t any more detailed, it just brings instruments forward in the mix so most tracks have too much treble. My spouse noticed the improvement from vinyl immediately too.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a bad CD, every other Amazon reviewer says it&#8217;s better than the original CD and it doesn&#8217;t suffer from the&nbsp;<a title=\"my blog post on the loudness war\" href=\"\/blog\/2007\/05\/music-why-so-much-sounds-so-bad.html\">loudness war<\/a>. But it&#8217;s wanton cultural desecration that we&#8217;re losing sound quality when we have <a title=\"my blog post on digitizing vinyl\" href=\"\/blog\/2008\/03\/audio-thoughts-on-digitizing-vinyl.html\">the tech<\/a> to conserve or improve it. If you really love an album, try to hear the vinyl version on a great turntable through a good stereo before you die.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no vinyl purist; I had just been listening to the Beatles&#8217; <a title=\"Amazon page for Yellow Submarine soundtrack remastered\" href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/Yellow-Submarine-Songtrack-Beatles\/dp\/B00000K4ES\">Yellow Submarine on CD<\/a> and thinking how good it sounds. Although the <a title=\"one-star Amazon reviews of the Yellow Submarine remastered CD\" href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/Yellow-Submarine-Songtrack-Beatles\/product-reviews\/B00000K4ES\/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_one?ie=UTF8&amp;showViewpoints=0&amp;filterBy=addOneStar\">negative comments<\/a> from Beatles die-hards make you realize there&#8217;s no single perfect version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switching between the CD and my original signed LP, the vinyl is decisively better: deeper bass, better piano, way more realistic speaking voice. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/audio-sometimes-vinyl-is-way-better\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}