2006-07-15 09:28:24 · 5 answers · asked by Rock Star 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
They definitely suck. DOn't even waste your time.
2006-07-15 09:44:59 · answer #1 · answered by Mariners 5 · 7⤊ 4⤋
The advantage is that an LP won't have the "stairstep hiss" that some people can hear in CDs. Other people used to claim that CDs were "overly bright," whatever the heck that means. Those sound qualities are artifacts of digitizing at 65536 levels, at 44100 samples per second. The perceived problems with CDs would be reduced by using a higher sampling rate. Professional studios these days also use 24 bits' worth of levels, instead of 16 (the 65536 mentioned earlier).
The disadvantages:
1. Wow and flutter. Your LP is spinning on a turntable. Think it can maintain a constant speed? Think again.
2. Pops. Your LP will get a piece of lint on it or a speck of dust. When the needle hits this obstacle, it'll interpret that as sound, and you get a pop. If there's several bits of lint, your needle may carry them along. The increase in mass of the pickup will therefore cause your higher frequencies not to reproduce so well.
3. Scratches. I've opened records right out of the record store that had scratches. Sucks. When the needle hits a scratch, it'll make the pop sound. Since the scratch will cross the grooves, you'll hear that pop sound repeatedly. If there's a deep scratch, then the needle can jump from one groove to another, skipping the music in between. When you're not using your LP, you have to be very careful always to put it in its protective envelope, and then put that into the album cover, to help prevent getting scratches.
4. Play wear. That's right. After a dozen plays, your LP won't sound the same as when it was new, because your needle is slowly eroding away bits of the record as it plays.
Because of play wear, CDs are a superior medium. Forget LPs.
2006-07-15 16:56:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are no advantages to LP's that I know of. However my "Brownsville Station" 33 1/3 would not sound right with out the pops & scratches that I have grown accustomed too.
I do love modern technology when it comes to music.
2006-07-15 16:39:36 · answer #3 · answered by rman62 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Advantages
2006-07-15 16:30:16 · answer #4 · answered by boy_jam_arch 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've got LPs but the disadvantage is that I don't have a record player.
2006-07-15 16:32:24 · answer #5 · answered by Walter 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋