Quote Originally Posted by mattboyslim
ok then. why does it all sound so crap these days then? (not being cocky i'd just like to know why)
that's far too big a generalisation to expect a correct answer. what sounds crap? when did "these days" start then, the days when everything started sounding crap?

your forgetting that a huge chunk of records out these days are done with software, usually with some outboard processing, sometimes not, and everything gets mastered before cutting anyway of course... but i can gaurentee that you will have danced your ass off to a digitially produced piece of vinyl at some point

the mp3/digital misunderstanding was rightly pointed out, and you can play mp3's anyway at a really high bitrate and if the production is cool on it then its going to sound sweet

if poor sound in general is the problem then of course thats down to the clubs people are going to not getting their systems up to scratch, producers being lazy etc etc

i love the way people wade into these discussions with "oh its not on vinyl is sounds shite" or "i cant believe Dave Clarke uses just CD's, his sets dont have the oomph anymore" errrr did u got to Voodoo in March? his set certainly had alot of oomph in them, and there are a range of advantages that CD's have in a live environment such as no bass feedback/response off the monitors thru the needles, being able to cue and loop with the need for an external sampler etc etc thats exactly why some people are switching over fully, or at least intergrating them into their sets

if the production is good, and the bit rate is correct then there's no problems, as someone said most people save their work digitally anyway on computers, as WAV's and this is only what is going to be cut to vinyl at cutting stage, the alternative being a DAT