I can somewhat understand the argument for "fuller" or more "authentic" sound from vinyl since the dirtiness of the recording does sound more like live music does, but I just get annoyed when people try telling me that something worse is better on a technical level.
This just tells me that he's careless and superficial enough to carry around a cumbersome portable SNES and a valuable game cartridge with a fragile label in public, where it can easily get damaged. And now he's responsible for a human being.
The only reason I have a CD drive at all is to rip music from a relative's music collection, if they do not have an album I want to rip I just use youtube-dl. I can not understand audiophiles. How can they hear differences in audio that no one else can is beyond me. Also FLAC files are fucking massive, I can compress them into a decent quality MP3 with no noticeable change in audio and save a shit ton of space.
It only sounds amazing because the CD mix was complete trash. Thats the problem with most later CD releases. "Loudness war" and what not. The record labels compressed the shit out of the audio because they thought it sounded better in cars and over the radio. Buying the LP in the 90's-00's was a way to bypass the label's meddling and get what the artist actually intended the mix to sound like. Most orginal CD's from the 80s sound amazing and there is zero reason to get an LP over those.
I agree, but it doesn't change the fact (also it was mastered by the best dude in the industry for vinyl mixes). And there are a good solid handful of other vinyl releases through the years that truly do sound incredible and are worth collecting. I don't think many people have heard how good vinyl can actually sound on a proper system, it's EASILY AS GOOD as digital--not really better per se, but it can be kind of shocking just how good the technology actually can be. Not something consoomers will ever have experience with, buying shitty presses at the mall. It's a thoroughly obsolete technology, but it peaked pretty damn high.
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I remember like 10 years ago youtubers started sperging about it as a hidden gem thats super special so hipsters latched on to it , it fell into the circlejerk blender and ended up in the same limbo as Joy Division shirts and jack skelingtong merch. things that get caught up in a feedback loop online and take a second life of their own as group signifiers, now the object itself is often judged overwhemingly positive or harshly not on its own properties but on its perceived value as an identity badge. Theres something i find kinda sad about it.
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It should be noted that most audiophile snake oil is in the headphones game, and back when I followed that sphere it was a common meme that you could pay $2000 for “top of the line” headphones… or you could get a $500 speakers that absolutely blow them out of the water.
IMO, $300 is where the diminishing returns seriously kick in.
Thanks for the tip, I'll keep an eye out for Stadium Arcadium.
So speakers are "better" because the sound is more distorted by the reverberation in your room?
Start with The Nerd Crew. They always have the latest details on Star Wars and Marvel properties.
This phrase made me remember this:
One off pieces like that are as close to interesting as these types of collections ever get. I wouldn't call it a good way to spend your money, but if you're into that kind of thing it's an infinitely better way to spend your money than shelves upon shelves of mass produced merchandise.
Reminds me of looking up videos on how to clean records and seeing how there's apparently 'drama' of sorts there. Watched several videos from older collectors who showcased cheap ways of getting everything clean that they'd been using for years vs. a lot of the newer audiophiles saying you need to buy expensive care items as cheap methods 'damage' the records. Like this guy had to delete his video on how he used to clean his record after all the hatred from audiophiles, which people have since re-uploaded because they liked his style of presentation and super cheap method:
Audiophiles are some of the most annoying to deal with because they always seem to want to one up eachother on their knowledge which leads to such conflicting/confusing advice for new people that it honestly isn't worth the bother. I've gotten better advice from the old farts that'll simply say to look for good quality second-hand equipment and to disregard all the marketing bullshit that companies love to use towards audiophiles. You are also far more likely to find people willing to sell those old systems (that still work) or you might even be able to get some for free as people upgrade their set-ups.
portable SNES is cool, actual button feedback is always superior to smartphone shit.Physical will last longer than digital if digital gets fucked somehow but digital could possibly be transferred upways easier. Both have their boons but my dumbass prefers physical stuff especially with the cloud subscription service always online shit being pushed lately with games.
I wonder what happens to a lot of promotional display statues. Somewhere, only god knows where, that fucking giant N64 promo Mumbo Jumbo statue that showed up at E3 or may not be rotting. The thing had a fucking TV inside itand the only 3 options I can think are "warehouse, junkyard, or some weird wealthy motherfucker with a high ceiling in his living room". I know there's entire swaths of research people have done on some of the Sonic promo statues, and some were found in like a junkyard or something a few years back.
She's got a video for that one, too:
