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Vinyl or Death.... of dance music.
Vinyl still beats all forms of digital playback.
As for the guy who says "its a myth" that vinyl sounds better than CDs he is brutally misinformed and here is why.
Vinyl sounds better on large systems for several reasons and part of that is because of the engineering required to put the dynamic range of a dance track into the physical "dimmensions" of an analog sound wave in the form of the groove on the record. Much of this engineering technique is completely lost on producers who put out material on CD and then play it on CD or another digital format over these types of sound systems.
FACT: in order to replicate the dynamic range of a properly engineered vinyl record at 45RPM you would need to be working in at least 192kHZ sampling rates realized in 32bit floating point stereo PCM in the digital realm. Which is why if you know these things when you send in your masters to a cutting engineer you send him your material on CD-R, in DATA format at at least that kind of rate in that kind of bit depth, not in CDDA format which is completely useless. For example any decent cutting house will refuse your CD-R, DAT or minidisc for a master and ask for it in WAVE or AIFF format at the best bit depth and sampling rate you can produce out of your gear, software etc. Why? because they can take advantage of it. Old story really, crap in, crap out. Sending your masters into a out in CDDA or on DAT to the plant basically tells the engineer you don't care about the quality of your productions,and he will respond in kind. Trust me here, as someone who has mastered tracks in the digital realm and worked with producers sometimes arm twisting them to get the right results - the difference shows on a final pressed production. Even the cutting house you go to can make a big big difference. We have done productions with 4 different plants and 5 different cutting engineers and we finally have found the best match for us as the engineer who cut our new release truly understood what he was doing and the record sounds stellar.
There is a lot of documentation on this online I just don't understand why people can't get it through their heads that much of what "sounds good" digitally doesn't mean the same thing in the analog domain when reproduced on a sound system properly tuned with a lot of power behind it. Kind of the end all be all point when it comes to the purpose of putting out a wicked track... to play it on a massive system with 20,000 plus watts of clean power (hello Funktion One!) or more 
Now just so there is no confusion, any of the tracks one would "get" from any online service come nowhere near this kind of range. For example a lot of sites will offer 320kbps Mp3s for use with "final scratch" or something of the sort. A higher encoded bit rate does not translate into better fidelity in terms of dynamic range response or replication. It may sound cleaner, but it doesn't even come close to being what can be realised on the vinyl record if you know what you are doing. Bit rate does not translate into bit depth and bit depth is only part of the 3 part mathematic formula used to "sample" a signal in the form of sound, recording the results and of course eventually reproducing it.
The fact that the material is offered in MP3 (a compression technology which is now over 16 years old!) should be the first sign it's no where close to what you can get out of a straight wave file pulled even from a CD-DA format disc.
Nothing like cutting the knees of your material... blah! Vinyl or DEATH!
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DJ Lithium
Black Tiger Recordings | NKME Ltd.
www.djlithium.com | www.blacktigerrecordings.com
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