Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"


Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"

I am sharing this for those with an interest. I no longer have vinyl, but I find the issues involved in the debates to be interesting. This piece raises interesting issues and relates them to philosophy, which I know is not everyone's bag. So, you've been warned. I think the philosophical ideas here are pretty well explained -- this is not a journal article. I'm not advocating these ideas, and am not staked in the issues -- so I won't be debating things here. But it's fodder for anyone with an interest, I think. So, discuss away!

https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2019/11/25/spin-me-round-why-vinyl-is-better-than-digital/amp/?fbclid...
hilde45
Have a good new year. And if you could write shorter posts, well...that would be a kindness. (No offense, just so many words!)
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I understand for sure.... I remind you because you surely has observed it already, that english is by no means my spoken language.... I never speak it, i dont travel and only read.... Then when i explain myself in Shakespeare idiom, the artful tools of rethorical expression, like ellipse, litote, humor, or condensed rethorical statement of any kind are not in my box tools...

Then i apologize completely for my failure and lack of self control also...

My best wishes to you.....
The unanswered question remains: What would Walter Benjamin say?
He would prophetise that A.I. and cyborg will always prefer vinyl over digital because it is more organic....

But himself being human only, will prefer the commodity and practicality of digital, because he travel a lot .....

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« Do you prefer digital or vinyl ? i prefer to glue my ears on your heart darling, or on the speakers..»-Groucho Marx
Benjamin would say, "One might subsume the eliminated element in the term “aura” and go on to say: that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art. This is a symptomatic process whose significance points beyond the realm of art. One might generalize by saying: the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition. By making many reproductions it substitutes a plurality of copies for a unique existence. And in permitting the reproduction to meet the beholder or listener in his own particular situation, it reactivates the object reproduced."