Visonaire x MINI: Sound

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Yet another example of Europeans thinking they understand the American MINI buyer.

Oh boy, do they sometimes … SKIP!

Ugh, you can can have all that old vinyl crap. I’m glad they are gone and I don’t have to store all those gazillions of records anymore. When an album was new the sound was terrific but after a few weeks, months just bad unless you owned one of those very expensive turn tables, which most of us didn’t. I had nearly 300 “Albums”. One whole section of my living room was used to store that mess. I had friends that had whole rooms dedicated to Album storage. I lived it, you can have it.

That said, I do wish I still had some of the great cover art and do still have a few Miles Davis and Hugh Masakela covers like Kinda Blue and The Americanization of Ooga Booga hanging around.

Long live the iPod!

Jeez, maybe they could bring back 8 track also… or maybe the old 78 breakable records…. not. LOL

Agreed… gotta give ‘em credit for being funky, once again.

Most hardcore audiophiles will tell you that for sound quality reproduction and fidelity, vinyl can’t be beat. In the UK and most of Europe you can still buy vinyl versions of most new recordings.

But as for me personally, the Digital Compact Disk and subsequently, the iPod brought about an incredible revolution as to the way we purchase, listen and store our favorite recordings. I dislike the high maintenance and wear of vinyl recordings and turntables, but there is something really special about it.

Most audiophiles dismiss the iPod’s sound quality as too processed and digitized. Amid criticisms from the audiophile community, Apple came up with the Äpple Lossless”audio format that is supposed to substantially reduce the immediate loss of recording quality when ripping apart CDs. For most people, an MP3 or AAC sound file doesn’t make that much of a difference, but for someone with “Trained” ears, the Apple Lossless format is a much more acceptable compromise than the high compression sound formats, so popular with digital portable devices.

The Compact Disc and then the iPod finally brought high quality sound to the car environment. Was was there before in terms of car audio? 8 tracks and Compact Cassette tapes (Gasp!). That was it. I agree that vinyl is restricted for home use, it is not practical, nor truly portable. But one reason vinyl still survives 20+ years after the compact disc revolution is that it still offers the edge in high fidelity sound reproduction. But as better and improved technology is being introduced to solve the issues of digital audio recording sampling rates, we can all expect to hear and enjoy even better digital audio recordings in years to come.