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posted by on Thursday June 08 2017, @02:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the hipster-cred-dlx dept.

In some sort of odd hipster nostalgia mixup you will soon be able to order the QUAKE soundstrack on vinyl (LP-record) direct from Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails (NIN). Price unknown (I just assume it's not the $0 that it is currently listed as).

While I still own quite a few LP-records and a player I don't think I enjoyed the Quake soundtrack enough to buy one of these records. I could probably think of a few other games I would rather have the soundtrack on LP-record for, mostly various C64 games.

https://store-uk.nin.com/collections/music/products/quake-ost-1xlp-1


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  • (Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Thursday June 08 2017, @06:20PM (1 child)

    by digitalaudiorock (688) on Thursday June 08 2017, @06:20PM (#522716) Journal

    I love hearing hipsters rave about the superior audio of vinyl, especially when listening to stuff record and mastered in digital.

    Actually I'd argue that doing so really is still valid. For one thing, that digital processing is often at extremely high sample rates, such as 128 Khz, which will very much end up sounding much better on vinyl (with no such limitation) than it would on a CD etc.

    However what's much more important about vinyl is that the physical limitations make it impossible to over compress the living shit out of everything, as is virtually always [wikipedia.org] done with digital recordings. That alone can make the dynamics of vinyl superior regardless of the source.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @09:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @09:17PM (#522800)

    Not really true. The noise floor of vinyl, and the actually delivered top end are both worse than that of CD, unless you're talking about top-of-the-line 45RPM platters, in which case it's more or less equivalent.

    The high end of analogue audio is high speed reel-to-reel tape, but that's not under discussion here.