Yeah, but you can play mixtapes in the car! :)
>I know its pretty pitiful, but
>it doesn't take much for me to avoid a $400 investment in one turntable.
Yeah, I know. I probably would have gone the CD route if I didn't have a
friend's turntables available to me when I started out. By the time I was
ready to invest in my own equipment, I already had a substantial amount of
vinyl that I couldn't see a)not using or b)duplicating by buying the CD
version...
>Besides, isn't it true that cds last longer than records? (Not at all an
>invitation to argue cds vs vinyl, just a query!)
Technically I suppose yes, because the record wears down a bit every time
the needle passes through the groove, whereas on a CD all you have is a
little light bouncing off it. A friend of mine also made an interesting
point about analog vs. digital...he said: "If you get a 10% degradation in
the information on a tape [same is true for a record], you can hear the
difference, but [since digital is all zeros and ones] if you get a 10%
degradation of a one, it's still a one."
>bijan
>
>(And I would need a dat recorder - something I ain't got!)
True enough, but if you have enough HD space to load all that music in from
CD, you could just mix your vinyl straight to the HD...(just playin' the
devil's advocate ;)
peace! Vinyl rules!
D.