parterre box

67 comments

• Peter'sPeck says:

  digital loses generational veritas. The so called vinyl and the recorded disc still survives it’s earliest form, and for all the loud mouthed youngins, the SOUND is so much more warm and real. Voices come alive on vinyl. THAT is why for the discerning lover of recorded sound, they prefer reissues lying walls rather than virtual death in digital. I hate the detached lifeless sound. If I want live sound I will go here it live.

  The rest is just noise.

  on November 27, 2008 at 3:35 PM
• Karnal Jones says:

  harry – I’d read your posts but I just washed my hair!

  on November 27, 2008 at 4:23 PM
• Melot's Younger Brother says:

  No, no, no – “R.P.M.” was a movie which starred that starred Hollywood’s fave couple of the 60s: Ann-Margaret and Anthony Quinn.

  on November 27, 2008 at 6:44 PM
• Thackeray Gnomey says:

  Dirk – I meant the Catalans would be pleased to see Madrid downgraded to regional rather than national capital. I know they are proud people. I have even worked with a few of them.

  on November 27, 2008 at 7:05 PM
• DirkVA says:

  I see your point, 64, but you again offend against the Catalan *amour propre* (and history). Madrid is never referred to as a “national capital” in Spain. It’s merely the capital of a temporary, legalistic thing called a “state.”

  Catalonia, however, is a nation with a capital — the aforementioned Barcelona. (I know I belabor the point excessively for this forum, but I used to live there and one gets indoctrinated day and night.)

  on November 27, 2008 at 11:07 PM
• jatm2063 says:

  Peter’s Peck: That is exactly the attitude I would expect from someone whose prime years coincided with the vinyl era (long long long long ago in the middle of the previous century). Vinyl has been dead for 20 years now and everyone knows it.

  on November 28, 2008 at 2:57 PM
• hndymn says:

  The portability and convenience of digital media simply trump all the artistic considerations, for me. They keep saying that vinyl is making a comeback, but you couldn’t prove it from the evidence I see locally. But there’s something to the argument that we’ve all lost something with the transition from analog to digital recording. I bought my first CD player about 10 years after their introduction (no early adopter, here) and, on decent equipment, did a side by side comparison of the LP and CD versions of the same recording (a beautiful stereo Strauss tone-poem with Reiner and the Chicago Symphony). The result was subtle, but nonetheless there—the CD version turns a violin section of 20-odd individuals playing simultaneously into the sound of a single violin duplicatied 20-odd times. I can’t find a better way to say it.

  on November 28, 2008 at 6:16 PM