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Comment on why vinyl sucks compared to mp3s by Jack

Jack — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:14:56 +0000

It all depends on the original recording, I’ll explain further

For older music it was all recorded in analogue up untill around 1990 when digital finaly became the norm. This meant that all digital formats had to have the analogue recording converted in order to make them storable on CD’s or a computer as an mp3. Early attempts at this were weak and lead to a washed out sound compared to there vinyl counterparts and some digital conversions still contain these horrible erors. For me both vinyl and mp3′s contain rolled off highs and disapointing bass but I have an excellent sound sytem with a $900 DAC (Digital to Analogue Converter) installed, however I find Vinyl contains a better core sound however I know that this sound distorts over time so I ALWAYS make a copy in a 24/96 flac version. I hope the industry will make a bigger effort to make flac or apple lossless the industy standard, replacing mp3s as I hate having to chose between the two inferior formats if a cd version isn’t available.

Comment on getting the old Acrobat Reader back on Android by n3wjack's blog » mighty handy android apps

n3wjack's blog » mighty handy android apps — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:10:35 +0000

[...] old version of Acrobat Reader for PDF’s, because the new one is just plain worthless on Android imo. Sorry [...]

Comment on visual studio 2010 becomes slow after saving on Windows 7 by ariel

ariel — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:43:41 +0000

Nice! worked like a charm, i was getting crazy!

thanks!

Comment on why vinyl sucks compared to mp3s by Tito Ortiz

Tito Ortiz — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:35:43 +0000

MP3′s sucks DICK, they are compressed garbage.

Comment on why vinyl sucks compared to mp3s by my2cents

my2cents — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:08:43 +0000

While we’re at it, anyone want to debate some other equally pointless dualities such as free will vs. determinism, or maybe nature vs. nurture? lol, but seriously it’s seems pretty clear to me that the popularity of digital and analog formats aren’t mutually exclusive. Anyone who looks at this objectively can see that digital is here to stay. There is no doubt about that. However, vinyl has a different type of value to collectors. It’s tactile. It’s big. You can get creative with packaging, inserts, color/picture disc vinyl, etc., making it a collectible piece of multi-media artwork. As for sound quality, the difference between a brand new vinyl record and a digital audio file is negligible. Of course, the vinyl quality will gradually deteriorate over time and the digital file will not. This doesn’t detract from the aesthetic value of vinyl to a collector with a sense of nostalgia and an affinity for the visual/tactile experience of playing vinyl. Of course, most collectors have digital versions of their entire vinyl collection at this point as well, and rightly so. I know I do and I appreciate both formats for completely different reasons. I’m glad I don’t have to choose.

Comment on why vinyl sucks compared to mp3s by Jek

Jek — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:00:15 +0000

It’s hilarious how people still cling on to these outdated, inferior-sounding formats. I say this as a 40-year-old dude who lived in the harsh times of vinyl and cassettes (especially cassettes since they were all that we had at the time for portability and making copies for friends and family).

I’m glad CDs existed. I’m so darn happy that now I don’t have to deal with buying vinyl or any analog format and used CDs can now be found at thrift stores for cheap.

320kbps .mp3 is the ONLY bitrate I allow for such a format; otherwise, CDs/lossless (like .flac) all the way!

Fuck vinyl! You hipsters have no idea how annoying it was to accidentally have your cherished records warped because of sunlight or when a stylus broke a million times (and you had to pay a crapload of money to replace it).

The future is digital. And DON’T bring the “loudness wars” into this because when CDs were first introduced they were taken STRAIGHT out of their master tapes. Also, “pops” and “clicks” never were intended in the masters, so how about THAT?

Comment on visual studio 2010 becomes slow after saving on Windows 7 by n3wjack

n3wjack — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:40:00 +0000

No idea. I never ran into it on WinXP. This jumplist thing is also new in Windows 7 AFAIK, so what you’re having is probably related to something else.

You can however use the System Internals tool I used to help you track the source of the issue, and see what file IO is going on when the issue occurs.
That’s how I managed to figure out what was wrong on Win7.

Comment on visual studio 2010 becomes slow after saving on Windows 7 by Dorababu

Dorababu — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:15:13 +0000

What to do in windows XP professional Service pack3 for the same issue..

Comment on getting the old Acrobat Reader back on Android by n3wjack

n3wjack — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:19:23 +0000

You bet.
If you like reading on your Android phone, you might also want to check out the excellent FBReader e-reader. It doesn’t do PDF, but it reads about any other known ebook format and is open source.

Comment on getting the old Acrobat Reader back on Android by Saugot

Saugot — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:03:24 +0000

Thank u very much. after the update, i was even unable to download acrobat. ur post certainly helped me a lot, coz i love to read on the go. :-)