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westmassguy
westmassguy Posts: 6,850
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Just stumbled across this article: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2016/03/15/high-definition-vinyl-will-soon-become-a-reality/
I'll never go back to vinyl, but should be interesting for those who have a lot invested, since it's backward compatible.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 24,578
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    they'll still find a way to screw it up...... AKA loudness war's
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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
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    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    they'll still find a way to screw it up...... AKA loudness war's
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    they'll still find a way to screw it up...... AKA loudness war's

    No doubt
    Home Theater/2 Channel:
    Front: SDA-2ATL forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/143984/my-2as-finally-finished-almost/p1
    Center: Custom Built forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/150760/my-center-channel-project/p1
    Surrounds & Rears: Custom Built forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/151647/my-surround-project/p1
    Sonicaps, Mills, RDO-194s-198s, Dynamat, Hurricane Nuts, Blackhole5
    Pioneer Elite VSX-72TXV, Carver PM-600, SVS PB2-Plus Subwoofer

    dhsspeakerservice.com/
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,071
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    If I have to buy my favorite albums a third time...

    Interesting and thanks for sharing this.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
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    Nightfall wrote: »
    If I have to buy my favorite albums a third time...

    Interesting and thanks for sharing this.
    That's why I'm not going back to vinyl



    Home Theater/2 Channel:
    Front: SDA-2ATL forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/143984/my-2as-finally-finished-almost/p1
    Center: Custom Built forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/150760/my-center-channel-project/p1
    Surrounds & Rears: Custom Built forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/151647/my-surround-project/p1
    Sonicaps, Mills, RDO-194s-198s, Dynamat, Hurricane Nuts, Blackhole5
    Pioneer Elite VSX-72TXV, Carver PM-600, SVS PB2-Plus Subwoofer

    dhsspeakerservice.com/
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  • madmax
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    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    they'll still find a way to screw it up...... AKA loudness war's

    I'm not so sure about that, was reading some stuff awhile ago on it where a lot of recording engineers are banding together to stop the process. Of course there will always be some out there...
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • dr1978
    dr1978 Posts: 424
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    https://pitchfork.com/news/high-definition-vinyl-is-happening-possibly-as-early-as-next-year/
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,045
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    I am speechless.
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  • rooftop59
    rooftop59 Posts: 7,981
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    I am speechless.

    I don't believe it, not for a second!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,045
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    I mean, isn't HD vinyl sort of akin to a high performance Yugo?
    Conceptually speaking, I mean.


    ;)
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 6,688
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    I mean, isn't HD vinyl sort of akin to a high performance Yugo?
    Conceptually speaking, I mean.


    ;)

    Polishing a toid, as it were.
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  • FestYboy
    FestYboy Posts: 3,861
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    Wait a second... Isn't vinyl the highest definition you can get? I mean it's already a non digitized representation of a sound wave...
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,045
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    yeah but them polyvinylchoride molecules are pretty long chains... that right there'll limit yer resolution.
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  • delkal
    delkal Posts: 764
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    FestYboy wrote: »
    Wait a second... Isn't vinyl the highest definition you can get? I mean it's already a non digitized representation of a sound wave...

    It should be. As long as the recording is good it should be "high definition"............but there is no way to measure it with an analog recording.

    I am betting they will screw it up and use the very highest definition DIGITAL recordings to master the vinyl
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,071
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    delkal wrote: »
    FestYboy wrote: »
    Wait a second... Isn't vinyl the highest definition you can get? I mean it's already a non digitized representation of a sound wave...

    It should be. As long as the recording is good it should be "high definition"............but there is no way to measure it with an analog recording.

    I am betting they will screw it up and use the very highest definition DIGITAL recordings to master the vinyl

    I couldn't explain why, maybe it's all in my head, maybe it's the physical act of the stylus running through the groove, who knows... but even records pressed from high quality digital files sounds more pleasing to me than the high quality digital files played digitally.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • wolfie62
    wolfie62 Posts: 24
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    Obviously none of you guys have ever listened to a dbx disc. I have several plus the decoder. 95 dB dynamic headroom, 20-20k freq response, and will blow you away if you ever listen to one on a good system. I would love it if the dbx disc was to come back into production. Problem was, the first time, it showed up only 3 years before the compact disc did. So it didnt live long.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 49,802
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    Nightfall wrote: »
    delkal wrote: »
    FestYboy wrote: »
    Wait a second... Isn't vinyl the highest definition you can get? I mean it's already a non digitized representation of a sound wave...

    It should be. As long as the recording is good it should be "high definition"............but there is no way to measure it with an analog recording.

    I am betting they will screw it up and use the very highest definition DIGITAL recordings to master the vinyl

    I couldn't explain why, maybe it's all in my head, maybe it's the physical act of the stylus running through the groove, who knows... but even records pressed from high quality digital files sounds more pleasing to me than the high quality digital files played digitally.

    It's all that distortion from the needle dragging in the grooves that you like.
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