Can anyone explain the vinyl renaissance?

[Doodski]

Just finished War and Peace. The spine fought back and the weight on my wrists was a bit much.

How where the philosophical discussions in the book War and Peace?

 

[MattHooper]

Just finished War and Peace. The spine fought back and the weight on my wrists was a bit much.

I can see that. I have a particularly large and heavy book I was reading a while ago. In normal conditions, I would still prefer that book to a digital version. But a health issue means I’m sometimes not up to holding heavy books easily. Hence my looking into a Kindle for those times.

 

[Robin L]

How where the philosophical discussions in the book War and Peace?

Mostly distracting from the main narrative threads. Interesting to speak of mass actions, such the Napoleonic wars, as coming from the forces of many acting as one rather than coming from a given "hero", and the idea of folding philosophical discussions into an otherwise linear historical narrative is interesting in and of itself, but in this specific case, it's something of a drag. Pynchon did a much better job with this sort of thing in Gravity's Rainbow by virtue of having more philosophical threads and dispersing them throughout the book. Having the last fifty pages of a "novel" being a philosophical tract is self-indulgent, to say the least.

 

[Robin L]

I can see that. I have a particularly large and heavy book I was reading a while ago. In normal conditions, I would still prefer that book to a digital version. But a health issue means I’m sometimes not up to holding heavy books easily. Hence my looking into a Kindle for those times.

I'm retired enough that I can spend a lot of time reading and have spent a fair amount of time reading thick biographies lately. Highly recommended to music lovers, Gary Giddins' two-part (so far) biography of Bing Crosby: Part one "A Pocketful of Dreams", part two "Swinging on a Star".

 

[Doodski]

Mostly distracting from the main narrative threads. Interesting to speak of mass actions, such the Napoleonic wars, as coming from the forces of many acting as one rather than coming from a given "hero", and the idea of folding philosophical discussions into an otherwise linear historical narrative is interesting in and of itself, but in this specific case, it's something of a drag. Pynchon did a much better job with this sort of thing in Gravity's Rainbow by virtue of having more philosophical threads and dispersing them throughout the book. Having the last fifty pages of a "novel" being a philosophical tract is self-indulgent, to say the least.

That is the same vibe I received when I read another peep's review before I read yours. The end of the book is tedious?

 

[Robin L]

That is the same vibe I received when I read another peep's review before I read yours. The end of the book is tedious?

It's tedious and pulls one out of the story. It would have been a better book without that section. It repeats what was written previously.

 

[Brian Hall]

That is the same vibe I received when I read another peep's review before I read yours. The end of the book is tedious?

The best example of tedious is Swann's Way by Proust.

 

[Leporello]

Just finished War and Peace. The spine fought back and the weight on my wrists was a bit much.

War and Peace has been on my summer vacation reading list for years and years. Never been able to finish it. Vacation will start in about a month…

 

[Robin L]

The best example of tedious is Swann's Way by Proust.

Depends on the translation. Moncrieff’s is tedious. Excessively wordy. Lydia Davis is not, it's really quite beautiful. The tedious part of "In Search of Lost Time" is "The Prisoner/The Fugitive" but that's because Proust wasn't alive to edit those two books, which really should have been shrunk down to one.

 

[Brian Hall]

Records You Can Eat? The Story of Edible Vinyl...

Whilst it may sound ridiculous, edible records do actually exist, and in many different forms. If you have ever thought about combining your favourite things into one (sort of) functional, and delicious treat, look no further than the mouth watering creations we have unearthed in today’s article.

atlasrecords.co.uk

 

[MattHooper]

Interesting and in-depth article just came out in the guardian, about the growing bootleg and fake record industry:

Vinyl came back from the dead – and so did the bootleggers: inside the booming business of knock-off records

As LP sales boom in the UK, so has the illegal trade in poor-quality fakes. But the record detectives are fighting back

amp.theguardian.com

 

[deweydm]

Interesting and in-depth article just came out in the guardian, about the growing bootleg and fake record industry:

Vinyl came back from the dead – and so did the bootleggers: inside the booming business of knock-off records

As LP sales boom in the UK, so has the illegal trade in poor-quality fakes. But the record detectives are fighting back

amp.theguardian.com

“…if an album by a successful artist was in short supply, ideally to the point of being considered collectible, then piracy would fill the gap.” Same as it ever was. CDs too.

The Beatles In Mono Box Set. Real vs. Fake.

 

[GoDawgs]

Records You Can Eat? The Story of Edible Vinyl...

Whilst it may sound ridiculous, edible records do actually exist, and in many different forms. If you have ever thought about combining your favourite things into one (sort of) functional, and delicious treat, look no further than the mouth watering creations we have unearthed in today’s article.

atlasrecords.co.uk

Are these people stoners or something? Just get a case of twinkies and some milk and stop eating your music.

 

[Newman]

Don't generalize. If you knew me in real life you would admire me. And I am a vinyl user.

What makes you think I was writing about you??!??? I was writing about the principal driver of the sales volumes, and specifically responded to a post by Matt quoting a report by someone who had just bought their first record player and clearly knew nothing about the tech.

Perhaps it was you who overgeneralised, in thinking I was talking about you.

 

[Robin L]

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ON THIS DATE (76 YEARS AGO) June 18, 1948 - In New York City, Columbia Records publicly unveiled its new long-playing phonograph record that turned at 33...

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[deweydm]

I did a needle drop of Days Like These and it is at -23 LUFS. When I bring it up to -13 LUFS (which is the Apple Music Standard), I can't hear much of a difference when I A/B the streaming vs the LP. Subjectively, the LP distortion sounds just a tiny bit muddier, but this isn't blind. I think if I walked into a room, I wouldn't know which is playing.

Came across this recently, from https://gearspace.com/board/showpost.php?p=1706712&postcount=20, regarding the cutting of a Foo Fighters LP: “I was disappointed to find that the high res files I received from Bob Ludwig for the most part had been heavily clipped as they were the same files (just prior to SRC and dithering) that the CD master was made from.”

Thread is about Radiohead, and their use of dynamic compression is very intentional too apparently. At least their producer's intention. From Dolby Atmos music is "rubbish" and "stereo is optimum" according to Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich: "That’s one of the problems they’re having with Atmos, actually, is that you can’t master it. You can’t put, like, an overall compression on it, really."

Sometimes, there is no refuge from the loudness wars.

 

[Newman]

"That’s one of the problems they’re having with Atmos, actually, is that you can’t master it. You can’t put, like, an overall compression on it, really."

 

[levimax]

Sometimes, there is no refuge from the loudness wars.

There is no loudness war.... loudness won a long time ago.

 

[DarkKoala]

Secondary market is crazy… things got sold out on bamdcamp,and people sell them for 10x on discogs. What dafaque os wrong with society. Did just everyone went crazy…. buying not to enjoy, but buying to resell and do „business“ … 400€ for a disc

Space Tribe ‎- The Future's Right Now

With stuff like that I also get pissed at the freaking artists, where everything has to be limitted edition …. guess what … I‘ll get it just to listen to it and I still won’t give you a dime… just because you are mofos.

artificially created scarcity is insanity, and the ones who do it are at fault too, not just the damn resellers.
I think also market places are rigged, people with multiple, accounts put stuff for sale for 2 000 000, 15000, and 250 …. i see what’s happening not fooling me

 

[mhardy6647]

Pynchon did a much better job with this sort of thing in Gravity's Rainbow by virtue of having more philosophical threads and dispersing them throughout the book.

Now we're talkin'!