CD Got Absolutely Crushed By Vinyl

  @tablejockey  :...........................  Hmmm, in all recording studios somewhere in the process ( as explain Boston. ) appears digital.

Hmmm....

R.

ruegas-the link is simply provided for added enlightenment. 

Direct your know it all wisdom elsewhere. 

A $50 Pioneer DV-05 modified with six capacitors and a higher end A/C cable will beat your Technics turntable.  Just ask Oregonpapa.  My friend modifies a 21 year old DVD player with dual lasers with just some cap to improve the power supply and some other caps (about $110 in parts).  Rivals my EAR Acute which cost $6000.  I also have a $22K analog front end.  It sounds great as well.  Sure, I hated CDs until the mid-90s due to either bad CD mastering (Japan could really do great jazz CD mastering in the mid-80s even) and generally bad CD players.  I've heard many $1000-$3000 CD players that sound very musical and enjoyable, unlike the 80s and most 90s players.

I strongly doubt any real deejays use vinyl anymore, they have not for 30 years. rap “dj”s only use one record on each turntable, which is just for time code to drive serato to play out digital rap files.

@sleepwalker65

Real DJs play vinyl (always). What you call "rap dj" is actually a hip-hop djing. Rapper is the one with a microphone, not with a turntable. The music is actually hip-hop. Rap is just a heavy rhymes over a hip-hop beat. Not all the DJs are bad, there are some incredible djs with amazing record collections and immaculate musical taste (jazz, soul, funk, soundtracks of the 60s and 70s on rare original vinyl is a part of the dj culture too). Actually the history of DJing is quite interesting, but people don’t know much about it. This is the best book about history of djing which cover everything from early radio disc-jockeys to a modern day. Personally i don’t like electronic music, but the DJing began way before electronic music was born. So if you will read about Jazz and R’n’B of the 50s, Soul Music of the 60s, Disco of the 70s you will realize what is DJing is all about.

Digital cr*p and electornic music (or heavy rap which you don’t like i believe) is just one side of the DJing in this crazy world nowadays, but as many aspects of the modern life and "show business" this is not the best side of the phenomenon called djing.

For example David Mancuso, the owner of The Loft in NYC, back in the 70s was an audiophile and record collector who became a deejay. This guy played records with Koetsu cartridges on M.Cotter turntables with Klipsch speakers at his private parties at The Loft. Here is a book about it. When we look at the dj booth of the Studio 54 in the 70s we will see Thorens turntables. Guys at Paradase Garage in the late 70s were pretty serious about sound system, i can see Thorens turntables with the Black Widow tonearms and Stanton cartridges on the pictures from that club. It’s a part of the history of djing.

BUT You can see what’s going on in The Spiritland in London today, i think you will be surprised about sound system made for djs/collectors at this venue.

You can also check Potato Head in Hong Kong to see how good could be the place where djs/collectors playin their music. I think it’s pretty impressive.

You see, not all the djs/collectors are "rap djs and clowns" as you call them. Same about audiophiles, some of them listening to absolutely horrible pop music on the most expensive systems. Some of them even prefer a CDs or digital copy to an original vinyl.

Dear @tablejockey :  "  It isn't just that the sample rate is too low, ..."

"  The other problem is that with digital recording, aside from the harassment and the complication, there's the problem of not having dedicated buttons, you have to pushing a button and recording a track and pushing another button and recording another track. Looking at the screen, moving your hand, looking at the mouse and watching it. When I'm using the 24 track machine, I never look at it. I actually punch in and out with my foot. I've been doing it for 24 years. "

The real problem there is that that interview came form 2004 !, 14 years ago ! !  ( Boston band Tom leader and recorder. ).

Obviously that he can't knew that today ADC/DAC works at 32/768.

So you link is totally useless for say the least.

R.