In the day of digital music and iTunes, what do you 'prefer' to listen to Prince music on:

Vinyl, CD or Tape?

I 'prefer' Vinyl ...

For sound quality I prefer vinyl.

For the convenience of thousands of songs at my fingertips at any given time, at home or on the go, I prefer a digital player loaded with thousands of my favorite songs/albums.

For archival purposes I prefer CDs that (because I properly store and handle them) provide the same listening experience without degradation for decades.

As for tape, I never play cassettes anymore unless I come across something I don't yet have in my digital library and I only play it to convert it.

Records Records Records!!!!!

I prefer CD... but with a 2 year-old around, digital is the way to go! You can't fingerprint an mp3

You cant beat vinyl but I love collecting cassettes.

vinyl the sheer ambients,size,sound & i have most of his work on it. so it adds to collection.

If i'm in the mood to "celebrate" a record, i prefer the vinyl (as far as i own it...).

I still use the D & P and cassettes in my old car stereo, also lots of self-made cassette-compilations.

I prefer vinyl, but mostly because my console record player has the best speakers in my house. It's a 1962 VM that was top of the line back in it's day and still sounds amazing. In my house, it's vinyl all the way.

Mostly CD. I have a very nice turntable / tube amp / speaker set up and prefer vinyl on my really good recordings. However, I have found that most Prince records are not engineered as well - my "good" system exposes some of the flaws.

Now, re-master SOTT on vinyl and I am all over it!

VINYL BABY!

CD and iPod. Not because I don't love the quality of sound on vinyl, it's just not a convenient format. I prefer the 12"x12" artwork of my records, though.

CD

Vinyl, vinyl, vinyl and vinyl

CDs

I have a number of cassettes, don't play them much.

Did you all know that as far as consumer formats before DVD-audio that 8-tracks were the most "hifi" accurate sound? That's what I read.

ufoclub said:

Did you all know that as far as consumer formats before DVD-audio that 8-tracks were the most "hifi" accurate sound? That's what I read.

whoever wrote that which you read must never have listened to one, they sounded like shit....

oh, wait, you're fukkin' with us aren't you?!?

djThunderfunk said:

ufoclub said:

Did you all know that as far as consumer formats before DVD-audio that 8-tracks were the most "hifi" accurate sound? That's what I read.

whoever wrote that which you read must never have listened to one, they sounded like shit....

oh, wait, you're fukkin' with us aren't you?!?

lol!

I had 8-tracks in the house and the car, and they did sound bad... they would change tracks with a click, and seemed to get jammed up a lot or slow down at certain crinkles...

but in 1996, a friend of mine inhereted a yellow cadillac with an 8-track, and we had Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life on 8-track (half of it) and jammed it driving around in that big thing. One time I was in it alone and stopped at a red light by a bus stop... and these girls waiting there started laughing and said "Where's Jerome?".... this was in 1996!!!????!!?

squirrelgrease said:

CD and iPod. Not because I don't love the quality of sound on vinyl, it's just not a convenient format. I prefer the 12"x12" artwork of my records, though.

You just wanted the prince in the bathroom poster that came with the record. Not hating-just saying.

kewlschool said:

squirrelgrease said:

CD and iPod. Not because I don't love the quality of sound on vinyl, it's just not a convenient format. I prefer the 12"x12" artwork of my records, though.

You just wanted the prince in the bathroom poster that came with the record. Not hating-just saying.

I've told this story before, but...

When I first met my wife in High School - this would have been 1982 or so, we went shopping at Target and were browsing the vinyl LPs - Prince section, of course... I look over and she's got a Controversy LP opened up all sneaky-like. I'm all, "What are you doing?!". She says "I need the poster, my step-dad ripped mine off my wall and threw it away."

The woman I married and whose loins brought our child into this world once boosted a Prince poster like it was no big deal.

I don't think I'll be taking my daughter's Justin Bieber poster down anytime soon.

squirrelgrease said:

kewlschool said:

You just wanted the prince in the bathroom poster that came with the record. Not hating-just saying.

I've told this story before, but...

When I first met my wife in High School - this would have been 1982 or so, we went shopping at Target and were browsing the vinyl LPs - Prince section, of course... I look over and she's got a Controversy LP opened up all sneaky-like. I'm all, "What are you doing?!". She says "I need the poster, my step-dad ripped mine off my wall and threw it away."

The woman I married and whose loins brought our child into this world once boosted a Prince poster like it was no big deal.

I don't think I'll be taking my daughter's Justin Bieber poster down anytime soon.

The only real question is that poster still on your bedroom wall??

CDs beat all in my opinion.