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  • The $1,000 vinyl

    Wired’s story about hot press vinyl is an interesting read. As always, sound quality is a complicated – and personal – topic.

    “There’s actually little reason why any two discs should sound the same,” says Masterdisk’s Scott Hull. “A grading system based on the different significant factors makes sense: surface noise, relative distortion during playback, and things like skips and major pops.” Before this becomes a hot stamper endorsement, Hull lowers the boom: “Saying one disc is wrong and another is right is very controversial. Only the producer, the mastering, and cutting engineers really know what that record was supposed to sound like.”

  • Pricing digital products

    I love books and music, and every now and then I watch movie. These three types of products belong to markets being disrupted right now, which means there’s a lot of moaning and whining and fear mongering going on, as well as a lot of problems when it comes to adapting.

    Pricing is one of these problems.

    • I buy most of my books from Amazon and almost all of them are Kindle ebooks.
    • I buy music on vinyl and from iTunes, as well as use Spotify for streaming music on a daily basis.
    • I never ever buy movies and you won’t catch me in a cinema if I can help it, but I have been known to rent movies from Headweb.

    The system works then? Nope, because the pricing is way off.

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  • Vinyl låter bättre

    Vad sägs om att avsluta veckan med att läsa om varför påståendet att vinyl låter bättre är sant? Medan ni gör det så lägger jag på en platta…

  • Because it sounds better

    I’m a hypocrite and I admit it, at least on principle. You see, I have no problem whatsoever to drop the famous “it just sounds better” explanation when it comes to music and vinyls. Because it does, it sounds better. The sound is just so much more alive, more real, more natural.

    Which is bullshit, at least most of the time these days. Because although you can digitally remaster any album and claim that it is the best sounding version yet, that is part of the problem. Classic albums from the vinyl years were recorded and mastered for the format, not for super-crisp CDs or hardly compressed MP3s. (more…)

  • Vinyl är inte framtiden – men där gör man i alla fall rätt

    Vinyl, klassiskt värreNy Teknik uppmärksammar att vinylskivan säljer igen (via Beta Alfa). Här är faktiskt en punkt där skivindustrin tänker rätt.

    – Gillar man musik vill man ha något som står fint i hyllan och som känns lite mer seriöst när man plockar fram det och kan läsa texterna på ett stort innerkonvolut. Man köper inte bara musiken, man köper lite mer, säger Peter Ejheden.

    Precis. Så varför gör man inte så med CD:n? Det rimmar väl med min lösning, speciellt eftersom man redan tänker rätt med vinylen och skickar med lösenord till mp3-versioner, eller rentav en simpel CD att rippa. Vi insuper musik lite annorlunda idag. När till och med Amazon säljer vinylskivor och LP-spelare, det är väl en vink? Väx upp, skivindustri.