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posted by on Monday February 06 2017, @10:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-spin-me-right-round,-baby dept.

Ever wondered why you sometimes have to wait months after an album's launch to get the music on vinyl? It's not necessarily because the label hates vinyl — in many cases, it's because the decades-old manufacturing process can't keep up with the format's resurgence. Relief may be in sight for turntable fans, though. Viryl Technologies is producing a pressing machine system, WarmTone, that should drag vinyl production into the modern era.

Much of WarmTone's improvement rests in its use of modern engineering. It's more reliable when producing the "pucks" that become records, makes it easier to switch out stampers (the negatives that press records) and sports a trimming/stacking system that can better handle large-scale production. Also, there's a raft of sensors -- the machine checks everything from pressure to temperature to timing, so companies will immediately know if something goes wrong.

Logically, the interface has been spruced up as well. Touchscreens help control the pressing machine on-site, and workers can check on the state of the machine from their computer or phone.

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https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/29/vinyl-record-production-tech-upgrade/


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  • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Monday February 06 2017, @05:20PM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Monday February 06 2017, @05:20PM (#463526)

    Every blind test I've ever seen done disagrees with your assertions. In some, people were also fooled into thinking CD was vinyl by the addition of distortion in some of them.

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  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Monday February 06 2017, @09:01PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Monday February 06 2017, @09:01PM (#463650) Homepage Journal

    The blind test I'd like to see is generate a pure 17kHz sine wave and a 17kHz sawtooth wave and see if teenagers can tell the difference.

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    • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Monday February 06 2017, @11:29PM

      by Nerdfest (80) on Monday February 06 2017, @11:29PM (#463779)

      True enough. I think they probably could. My hearing has degraded a bit but I can still hear the difference between MP3 an FLAC ... I'd assume they could as well, they just don't care as the music and mastering renders it less important. I might be wrong of course.

      I'm kind of a believer in "good enough", but really, MP3 is *not* good enough.

      • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday February 07 2017, @01:11AM

        by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Tuesday February 07 2017, @01:11AM (#463826) Homepage
        I rip my CDs, to an MP3 bitrate significantly higher than I was able to ABX (160kbps ABR easy to hear, 192 seemed good enough given the rest of my PC-source system, 224 is what lame seems to average to with my chosen parameters).

        However, I don't sell my CDs, so I can always play them through my real hi-fi pathway. The hi-fi's in the office. I visit the office only one or two days a month nowadays...
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