Digital is far better than vinyl

I agree with you all, I still have my vinyl collection and a couple of TT but spend most of my time listening to digital. Who would have thought.  

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@arafiq 

I soaked red bricks 🧱 in a vintage French wine for a minimum of 24 hours and then covered the marinaded bricks with aluminum foil. How warm and engaging the music sang. 

@ghdprentice 

+1 Count Basie 

Every time it rains it rains pennies from heaven ….

I was born and raised in an analog cabin in the backwoods on a dirt road. It was made by stacking unwanted vinyl records into logs. The gaps between logs were filled with obsolete 8-track tape. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. 

When the modern world of CDs came about, my dad abjectly refused this devilish technology and would not let them enter the door of the record store he and my mom owned. Needless to say, his record store went the way of the incense shops because he refused to adapt. 

It didn't matter that we had a hand-crank Victrola in the parlor for the collection of rare 78 blues and jazz, it didn't matter that his belt-drive turntable played first pressings with precision and nary a pop or skip. His equalizer was always set to flat and unplugged. Only one person could be in the room to listen to Sketches of Spain (his favorite album at the time) as your body interfered with the soundstage. None of this mattered when the CDs began arriving via my Columbia House CD membership. I would secret off to my room and put the digital magic disc into my CD player and turn up the volume to enjoy the absolute clarity and instrument separation my father could only dream about.

When my father passed away, I wrapped him in the album covers of his favorite artists and had him embalmed with 180gr vinyl. The coffin was pressed by the original Mobile Fidelity lab. Thank god dad died in 1998 because he'd be turning in his grave if he found out his coffin had been pressed using MoFi's OneStep.