Going to AWA has completely revitalized my relationship with anime music videos. I was hanging out with NME at the airport (he's an awesome guy), and we were talking about music and how today's mastering compresses the shit out of everything and theres no dynamic range anymore. We started talking about old bands and how awesome they all sounded on vinyl and whatnot.
My father and I are budding audiophiles, and he's been spending buckets of money on stereo gear. He's also a musician with his own recording studio in our apt so I tried ripping a vinyl record to possibly use as the tunes for my next AMV.
Cleaned off the record, plugged in our sooped up Tecnix direct drive turntable with a new top grade stylus into our Conrad-Johnson PV8 tube preamplifier, plugged that into his EMU and ripped a record at 24bit 96kHz.
Oh my fucking god, it sounds incredible. The dynamic range is huge, you can actually FEEL the sound. Its like swimming in a river instead of looking at a picture of a river. It sounds so warm and liquid gold, I just can't express it to you guys. Instead of having everything be loud, you actually have to TURN IT UP. There is no comparison.
So anyway, my next video will be using a vinyl rip, will be 6 minutes long, and probably have uncompressed audio. Hopefully if its popular it will help start an audio movement in the community for people who care about sound and don't like listening to 128mp3 garbage. Does anyone around here enjoy hi-fi audio? What kind of rig do you have?





