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TWiT Clip: Audiophiles Fall For MoFi's Digital Tricks

TWiT Clip: Audiophiles Fall For MoFi's Digital Tricks

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TWiT Clip: Audiophiles Fall For MoFi's Digital Tricks

TWiT Clip: Audiophiles Fall For MoFi's Digital Tricks

TWiT Clip: Audiophiles Fall For MoFi's Digital Tricks

TWiT Clip: Audiophiles Fall For MoFi's Digital Tricks

BonusMonday, 8th August 2022
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for a while vinyl, right? everybody's

0:04

into vinyl there's a big scandal going on

0:07

in the vinyl world to read about this

0:09

that the smarting oh my god, that's amazing

0:11

yeah, if

0:13

i was a company that's

0:15

been around for

0:17

a decade or actually up our way in sebastopol

0:20

and claim

0:22

to fame there selling vinyl records

0:25

that are mastered from the original

0:27

digital, non digital analog

0:30

masters of classics

0:32

ah you know asia from steely dan

0:34

earth or even thriller which was mastered

0:37

or to tape and

0:40

they were selling it this way for a long time

0:43

until a record store owner

0:45

phoenix record shop the

0:48

owner the

0:50

said according to pretty reliable sources

0:54

modify mobile fidelity has

0:56

been using digital files

0:59

instead to create these vinyl

1:01

records they are not analog masters

1:03

and then a number people spoke up and said you know makes

1:06

sense because if they're making these vinyl records

1:08

from analog masters they have to keep

1:10

rewind the tape and playing eerie whining that they're

1:12

not nobody's going allow them to do that so

1:16

in fact it's now come

1:18

out engineers though fight in one

1:20

owed admit it but engineers from mummify

1:22

have started say yes

1:25

we started they're using digital stream

1:28

it it's called direct stream digital technology

1:31

twenty eleven on

1:34

a release of tony bennett i left my heart san

1:36

francisco the by the and twenty

1:38

eleven sixty percent of their vinyl release

1:40

is used digital sources

1:45

you

1:47

laugh and because of the him

1:49

loving you know that

1:51

ah okay and making five in that that leo

1:53

you don't lend i thought really the vinyl during

1:55

the candidates some awful lot myself

1:57

because i like as the like thousand dollars

1:59

the minor records of the last year's and an ice

2:02

i was just now yeah you have my own it's

2:04

a turntable it's in a sandbox with

2:06

special mommy a mini me

2:08

the thousands include said that the turns

2:10

out that i got the yeah so is you a bit

2:12

but it like i'm part of a monthly like a record

2:14

of the month club thing like i like it's

2:16

stupid i bought all of

2:18

the variations of killers this i'm

2:20

a dead folklore album

2:22

on vinyl and all like seven right

2:25

about them all though i'm i'm

2:27

i'm laughing at myself in terms of

2:29

this to because i at me be getting

2:32

that that the thriller album that they have

2:34

up for preorder one hundred dollars

2:36

which they're claiming came from like the analog like bass

2:39

as with oh well you know maybe that would be really

2:41

cool now i'm like you absolute

2:44

idiot because it veered they're just sourcing

2:46

it from from a from a digital master and they

2:48

can say oh well it is it sounds as good

2:50

and what not well no this

2:52

is just more proof that people who buy the audio

2:54

files stuff which again i'm absolutely

2:56

one people a book whoop whoop basically

2:59

function or money and is where the for many

3:01

things are the differences because we can sort of

3:03

lastly cannot yeah i'm for

3:05

aesthetic and and other things so i love

3:07

this is also hilarious

3:10

that the initial response from the communities was

3:12

for tax this record store guy and he likes you're

3:14

you're wrong and then like the company admits isn't

3:16

it

3:17

like oh yeah sorry or man

3:19

the according to a washington

3:21

post the fall out of most fi revelation

3:25

has thrown the audio file community and

3:27

says something of an existential crisis

3:29

right right exactly this

3:31

is like school but i sort of but i i i

3:33

i swore that i the rounded better

3:36

m m m and now i know it's a placebo

3:38

witches

3:39

most about you are part of have a hobby

3:41

would admit it we know

3:43

that were just more it said to pay more

3:45

com video but it's it's

3:47

some to play

3:49

the gonna wipe out there is in

3:51

his heart and i moses the aesthetic

3:53

the aesthetic yes

3:55

names when you can and

3:57

, can like oh

3:59

and

3:59

the same thing with people that like books

4:02

which i like like paper books with like

4:04

pages with some written on it that i have to go

4:06

through and i lose the page and all that

4:08

personally but i prefer the experience

4:11

even though it's much easier for to read it on my

4:13

phone where i don't have that like have a light

4:16

see the letters of lights not bright

4:18

enough there's something that's a joyful

4:20

thing about actually being able to olds and own

4:23

and manipulate something that

4:25

isn't just digital you know for i enjoy

4:27

it

4:28

as a visitor from the age of vinyl

4:31

ah , actually had a vinyl

4:33

records when they were the only way except music

4:36

ah remember buying as remember buying

4:38

at a forty of my my first

4:40

record was a beatles forty five i

4:43

want to hold her hand as ,

4:46

there it's not about the sound quality that

4:48

sounds like crap but

4:50

, there is an ascetic to taking

4:53

in a matter the sleeves the get the liner

4:55

notes as a whole thing you clean

4:57

it with the disclosure three drops that's

4:59

all you're in a new put it on the things

5:02

he gently to lower needle on

5:04

there is there's i understand these

5:06

settings of it's a it doesn't

5:08

one of the really old ones you know

5:10

a gramophone kind of like looked

5:12

a third love on on

5:14

around us but i mean

5:17

to say oh this oh this says snow

5:20

modify saying hey look we even

5:22

though we're using digital we

5:24

get the masters then we

5:26

very carefully make this digital

5:28

revolution

5:29

and and indeed very the they might actually

5:31

have a good better master cause a lotta times the

5:33

reason people will get mad about digital masters isn't

5:35

because digital there's anything wrong with it is because

5:38

the process or the remastering

5:39

i've been like crunch

5:41

the company the point that it terrible

5:43

and you can actually hear like in this isn't

5:46

was a audio file thing you can do

5:48

like a be samplings were

5:50

there have been conclusive differences

5:52

were you can take like a city that the suppressed and like

5:54

ninety ninety and one that was present when he the teams

5:57

and and is the alum they sound very

5:59

different because

5:59

of the way

6:00

from papers works

6:02

after a powerful of is still

6:04

to us your your job with mastering and

6:06

that they saw that better source material he

6:08

drinks from the final right they

6:11

could be harden thera you know like whole

6:13

thing is and like all were were coming from like

6:16

it directly from the analog which is

6:18

especially with the fact that like i'm

6:21

vinyl plants are

6:23

almost impossible for people even get time on

6:25

like things are backlog so much the

6:28

debt additional time you're to that

6:30

with would be untenable arms

6:32

to do especially the do without a large

6:34

batch thing like the throw album where they said

6:37

they do forty thousand and coffee is

6:40

there's no way you have too many

6:42

run the tape for single

6:44

now frame but yeah i run a more

6:46

than once you not and mangling number of select

6:49

so that's something of yours

6:50

the time especially if you're going to be claiming you want

6:53

like high said l

6:54

recordings right where you don't want to sound like

6:56

that i want to hold your hand for generalize

6:58

a hat is

6:59

the you don't want it to be that way silva yeah

7:01

i mean i think that that some of this is polly much

7:03

ado about nothing but it is funny they'd

7:06

like see people who still trying to convince themselves

7:08

that is that are that's sad like

7:10

the authors sell idea of isn't aware that

7:12

they saw us super audio cds

7:15

i'm super excited to see that the se city

7:17

market it's kind back a little there is it the

7:19

a it seems to be which are they're

7:21

they're like some pre orders and and coming soon

7:24

really it says on an essay city

7:26

that's actually much exciting me so

7:29

so sorry

7:32

did you also you mentioned taylor when she'd really

7:34

wow or it's she also released from cassette and

7:36

i thought that yes is our about that yeah

7:39

says he had a moment that hipsters

7:41

is right up from easy

7:42

meant not completely it's as completely aesthetic

7:44

that that's been for five or six years

7:46

now where seen especially with

7:48

younger people wanting to it's that it suggests

7:51

that i and like i bought a

7:53

real had with me really said twenty fifth anniversary

7:55

of ok computer i got it on many

7:57

deaths so that was

8:00

which is the ultimate as you

8:02

know like and i you actually have many

8:04

as claire i can play it back without was like

8:06

the ultimately really greasy

8:08

i really am and anything i got

8:10

it i think they've got that on a there was cassette

8:13

thing there to what you're right yes she released

8:15

this stuff like assess when i'm waiting

8:17

for were seen as they come back we

8:19

for actual just cds to come

8:21

back

8:22

right

8:23

now i'm waiting for what's the name

8:26

look is a digital in ironing when you downloaded

8:28

is identical to the c d or

8:30

, download maybe three or a c but

8:32

if you download a lossless version

8:34

of it it's identical the forty for one

8:37

cd

8:38

don't know me i'm just looking for cs that a clean

8:40

back i just wanna see

8:41

it like a giant walkman i

8:43

don't care either

8:44

the young you i don't care i just want to see people walking

8:46

around science late no a

8:48

walk music and like us that would just be

8:50

honey i did you can make the case and i and

8:52

i have been i've you know from

8:55

from or walker by the dolby

8:57

, in san francisco many years ago

8:59

and adobe engineer came out that they he he

9:02

he from me and they're very it's it's famous

9:05

a very famous as a theater

9:07

in theater with really good

9:10

rebel speakers images really nice up

9:12

and he played in a be comparison for me

9:14

between it now was admittedly was steely

9:16

dan it was not a very complex piece of

9:18

music but between

9:21

the an analog and digital adding

9:23

that even mp three recording my bases

9:27

member dhabi was much into this these digital

9:30

compression technologies in it was indistinguishable

9:33

but and then i'm people say now listen carefully

9:35

and you can hear you know there's some

9:37

of fidelity and in like this symbol

9:40

here and if they teach you and tell

9:42

you what to listen to you can kind of tell an mp three

9:44

spicier hundred twenty eight kilobit him he three

9:46

isn't as good as say you know

9:48

a lossless version of the cd most

9:51

people let's face they're listening

9:54

on this crappy airports in whoop ass is

9:56

this is this is the thing i like the were selling

9:58

your the other

10:00

the hilarious thing about the vinyl you

10:03

go to like the are slashed by know like separate and stuff

10:06

have obama people who are when he turn

10:08

tables and other things and then

10:10

when the first questions they ask is okay so how

10:12

do i listen to this lose you how to connect with

10:14

how do i know sat know

10:17

you at my guide you actually hurt my regime connected

10:19

to my son us but i'm primarily

10:21

when want to listen to vinyl has like my

10:24

very expensive like headphones on

10:26

them directly my amp plug into

10:28

by turntable and that's i'm enjoying

10:30

the experience but it is very

10:32

funny that people will want to on the one hand

10:34

take on the aesthetic the other hand

10:37

immediately went to be able to

10:39

listen to it wireless li and as lake okay

10:42

you do understand what you've just done here

10:44

you've just completely given up the entire

10:46

thing like i get it it's nice to be able to

10:48

drop a needle on something and do that by

10:51

anything you want to try to claim about like audio

10:53

sickly is completely

10:55

out the window as soon as you are

10:57

in order to and local products yeah

11:00

blue season but he believe industry in an analog

11:02

to digital converter cousin actually is the most cases

11:04

are taking okay so that was digital became

11:06

analog now it's be going digital again

11:09

like on

11:10

what can a turntable and have the inception

11:12

of everything it's inception exactly

11:15

what kind turntable have kristin can't

11:17

remember right now that of oh no

11:19

audio file i i'm at a warehouse

11:21

slash are like i said i got like two

11:24

years ellis the upper west one it was

11:26

it was you know allows about you though as and

11:28

years enthusiasm and i recognize this

11:30

because am kind of the same with where get

11:32

into something the don't have to do

11:34

it in it's entirety whatever

11:37

it is right and then you move on

11:39

that's right never sit knows a thing

11:41

like a got really into a for a of time

11:43

not really as much anymore by thy

11:45

god bless the highest that's that's

11:48

the joy in the passion for something

11:50

you care so much about

11:51

it is it's a project that's what it is

11:53

yeah it's from project yeah that was on

11:56

the way from yeah the in you

11:58

know what i'm about you but

11:59

and

11:59

do you really good friends but it's because i'm

12:02

a d d that

12:04

is even as kid the way

12:06

i got functional with my

12:08

attention deficit was i when hyper-focus

12:11

and so everything for me,

12:13

was it was it was a project was a hyper-focused

12:16

thing because it's the

12:18

only way i could really do it and i i think probably most

12:20

of our existence safeway of

12:22

get

12:22

it gives you all that wonderful zopa

12:25

mean

12:25

yeah new he feels good on

12:27

yeah opening

12:30

other stuff and then you move

12:32

on to learning and experiencing something

12:34

else it's it's if there's nothing wrong

12:36

with it enjoy have fun like

12:38

a to sort, don't,

12:41

don't don't mind

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