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[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 22 Aug 2008, at 10:04 , Steve Swann wrote:
> If you're talking about the qualitative differences between cd and  
> vinyl, I'm totally with you - I miss everything about vinyl except  
> the maintenance - trying to get that last freaking speck of dust to  
> get rid off the pop it was causing  in the middle of a song used to  
> make me nuts.  But I miss the warmth of sound, the packaging/ 
> artwork... Examining the album sleeve as the record played was part  
> of the experience - CD "liner notes" have never cut it...



I'm a total heretic, having moved ever closer to the completely  
digital experience! ;)  I now just rip my CDs losslessly to my iTunes  
libaray, and then store the original CD away.  When possible, I buy  
lossless FLAC files for download and skip the CD entirely (though I  
refuse to buy lossy digital formats); the delivery is faster (and,  
where I am, more likely to arrive! ;)).  Everything sits on one giant  
hard disk and gets backed up to a second giant hard disk.  I think  
I'll shortly need to move up from the current 750 GB disks to 1 TB  
disks, though! :)

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
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