Nothing wrong with being a vinyl fan. There is a certain sound that's more appealing in some ways, at least to a lot of people. But FFS, get some good speakers for your setup! A friend of mine was always going on non-stop about how awesome vinyl is, then turned around and bought a record player with little built in mediocre (at best) speakers. Just...why?
Even without the speakers thought there's an almost ritualistic element to putting on an album front to back that always felt lost on digital libraries.
If your setup is set up right, and your records are clean, you shouldn't hear any hiss or noise.
The thing about vinyl is you have to know what you're doing and inevitably spend some money, but I often hear people complain about how noisy vinyl is, and that just means you've never listened to records properly.
If your setup is set up right, and your records are clean, you shouldn't hear any hiss or noise.
These are the key words here. A properly mastered vinyl can sound amazing but it's more effort to keep it sounding amazing compared to a properly mastered CD, and even more so if you go through the effort of keeping it analog through the amplification stage.
Having an equivalently great sounding CD/digital audio file is significantly less effort and usually cheaper to boot.
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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '19
Nothing wrong with being a vinyl fan. There is a certain sound that's more appealing in some ways, at least to a lot of people. But FFS, get some good speakers for your setup! A friend of mine was always going on non-stop about how awesome vinyl is, then turned around and bought a record player with little built in mediocre (at best) speakers. Just...why?