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7/26/2025, 4:23:24 AM
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>they have an analog texture to them that nothing else really reproduces
The "effect" tends to be overhyped and fetishized by people who didn't grow up with the technology. A lot of people who try to process video by dumping to VHS and then redigitizing are often disappointed by how much of the signal is preserved. The "analog texture" that people recreate with plugin suites now tends to be more of something you'd see on home videos that were recorded at a super low tape speed on cheap tapes, recorded over several times, and stored poorly in a box in a basement or attic. I get it. I collect vinyl records and people used to prattle on about the "warmth" all the time. That exists to a minor degree, but I think most people should just be real and admit that they do it because it's a little different, and it's fun to treasure hunt.
>I don't know if there's anything redeemable about CDs
CDs have really great clarity in sound. The music on a commercial CD is uncompressed which is more than you can say for both mp3s as well as streaming formats (and that goes double when it's delivered to your ears via bluetooth). It's a detail thing, but the higher quality can end up making something that used to sound kind of trite feel more profound and elegantly understated. You can rip the uncompressed audio from a CD to a computer pretty easily, but the filesize is not insignificant, and it can become problematic if you are an avid collector of music. I still collect vinyl but while there are communities dedicated to super high quality rips from vinyl records, if I'm pirating audio I'll tend to look for uncompressed audio ripped from CDs.
Interest in CDs is starting to crop up in certain niches, and when you go to record stores (at least in larger cities), you can see a couple of 20-something hipster kids making sure that everyone sees them ONLY digging through the CD collection and not bothering with any of the vinyl. Pretty funny how things change.
>they have an analog texture to them that nothing else really reproduces
The "effect" tends to be overhyped and fetishized by people who didn't grow up with the technology. A lot of people who try to process video by dumping to VHS and then redigitizing are often disappointed by how much of the signal is preserved. The "analog texture" that people recreate with plugin suites now tends to be more of something you'd see on home videos that were recorded at a super low tape speed on cheap tapes, recorded over several times, and stored poorly in a box in a basement or attic. I get it. I collect vinyl records and people used to prattle on about the "warmth" all the time. That exists to a minor degree, but I think most people should just be real and admit that they do it because it's a little different, and it's fun to treasure hunt.
>I don't know if there's anything redeemable about CDs
CDs have really great clarity in sound. The music on a commercial CD is uncompressed which is more than you can say for both mp3s as well as streaming formats (and that goes double when it's delivered to your ears via bluetooth). It's a detail thing, but the higher quality can end up making something that used to sound kind of trite feel more profound and elegantly understated. You can rip the uncompressed audio from a CD to a computer pretty easily, but the filesize is not insignificant, and it can become problematic if you are an avid collector of music. I still collect vinyl but while there are communities dedicated to super high quality rips from vinyl records, if I'm pirating audio I'll tend to look for uncompressed audio ripped from CDs.
Interest in CDs is starting to crop up in certain niches, and when you go to record stores (at least in larger cities), you can see a couple of 20-something hipster kids making sure that everyone sees them ONLY digging through the CD collection and not bothering with any of the vinyl. Pretty funny how things change.
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