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George Lamb is a cunt of the highest order. I am scared to listen to 6 Music now in case he might just appear bellowing "SHABBA" for no good reason.

I only listen to the Craig Charles funk and soul show which is fucking awesome. I find most presenters haven't got a clue or are just arse licking nimrods who believe they have earned the right to say they have taste for no reason. Possible over generalising but on a specialist music station the depth of knowledge is what they should be paid for so why is George Goatfucker on there, he even gets the names of the bands playing on his show wrong from time to time. Unacceptable. Shabba... fuck off

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Guest Tam o' Shantie
When I get some money together I want a vinyl player. Due to the wider sampling range than cd's they sound sooo much better.

Lol! This is seriously bad science...unless you can tell me what sort of sampling goes on in a 'vinyl player'?

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Depends what volume of music you're buying. I'd rather spend 40-50 on MP3's than the vinyl equivalent of 200-250. Digital only releases, no waiting time....etc

Tru that...i've never bought an mp3 unless I wanted/needed to spin it. I do prefer to buy vinyl singles, rip them and serato them, but at the price of some of them (plus sheer unavailability half the time) I just can't afford to do it considering I only play about 4 gigs a year. Vinyl or CD for listening though.

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Lol! This is seriously bad science...unless you can tell me what sort of sampling goes on in a 'vinyl player'?

You can get turntables with a digital output now, but you'd need a 24-bit ADC on the turntable and a 24-bit DAC output to your amp to get any real improvement in recording from vinyl. The 16-bit resolution on CDs is quite coarse, although modern players have technology to improve this.

Since the studio masters are 24-bit digital, vinyl actually does have higher fidelity than CD in some respects.

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The digital radio in my car ruined my life. I found out George Lamb existed. Cheers Radio 6, nice one.

lol! can't rep you for that, gimme a shout some time as well brah

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You can get turntables with a digital output now, but you'd need a 24-bit ADC on the turntable and a 24-bit DAC output to your amp to get any real improvement in recording from vinyl. The 16-bit resolution on CDs is quite coarse, although modern players have technology to improve this.

Since the studio masters are 24-bit digital, vinyl actually does have higher fidelity than CD in some respects.

Since the audio you hear through your speakers using 99.99% of turntables is transmitted through phono leads and then amplified, there is no sample rate whatsoever involved. So yes, they are higher fidelity in that sense. However, the original point not only claims that a typical 'vinyl player' has a higher sample rate than an MP3, but that vinyl sounds superior for this reason...which is total and utter bullshit.

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Since the audio you hear through your speakers using 99.99% of turntables is transmitted through phono leads and then amplified, there is no sample rate whatsoever involved. So yes, they are higher fidelity in that sense. However, the original point not only claims that a typical 'vinyl player' has a higher sample rate than an MP3, but that vinyl sounds superior for this reason...which is total and utter bullshit.

You're right, it's not correct to use the term 'sample range' to describe the output of a typical vinyl player as it's analogue with no digital conversion going on. I think the difference in quality people perceive is more down to the filter (RIAA?) that is applied to the master to compensate for bias in playback.

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I do wonder if 24-bit audio at 96Khz would be owning all our vinyl though it doesn't seem that DVD-audio has really taken off in a big way. There's no reason at all why you can't have 24-bit 96Khz mp3s, except the DACs for output are more expensive.

And you can have 5.1 sound. Or stereo at 192Khz.

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in my opinion it is less a question of reproduction as it is eq. same reason shitty old tapes always sound great in the car stereo, if like me you like that sort of thing...

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