CD is definitely better than LP*

*during an earthquake!

We just had a 6.5 here in Idaho and the CD never skipped while the house swung back and forth for 20 seconds.

Try that with your silly $20k vinyl rig! Ha!

 

It's hard to believe that someone would spend $20k on a vinyl rig when the people who manufacture the records we buy play them on Technics SL's and Audio Technica AT-120's!

 

I have many CDs that sound better than many 70’s or 80’s repressings. But generally, IMO, most original pressings sound the best outside of audiophile versions, etc

 

CDs are earthquake proof!

 

I’ll concede on this one. Everything OK?

 

Not during an earthquake!

 

Yep. Nothing came out of the cupboards.

 

The most clickbait of titles.

 

I'll concede that for a 6.5, but I've been playing records during earthquakes and my rig at the time didn't register a problem. I think it could have been because of the turntable base I had then (Gingko Audio Cloud). It took the waves and passed rolled them through like shock absorbers.

The earthquakes were nowhere near a 6.5 however. 3's and 4's I think.

 

My old Rotel 855 would skip like crazy when it was on my rack in a room with wooden floors and someone walked close to it. My turntable/tonearm on the same rack never did.

JohnK

 

I'm not sure I would have noticed what happened wrt the music if I was in the midst of any earthquake / tremor that I was able to feel.

Doug

 

When you are in the middle of an earthquake LPs skipping are just about the least of your worries: You got bigger fish to fry!

 

Just don't stream during an earthquake. You risk having a brick wall fall on you.

 

Once a week I take the car out for a twenty minute drive to charge the battery. And so I missed the earthquake! Darn. We don't get many earthquakes in Idaho.

 

When I was a kid, I slept through a few earthquakes, while my mother stood over me with outstretched arms, to catch any furniture that might fall on me...

 

6.5 is no joke. Glad all is well.

 

Yeah, but when the power goes out, nothing beats my Victrola

 

Wouldn't the rumble of the earthquake affect the sound?
I would challenge a high end CD player other than a non-skip discman, against a vintage AR turntable properly suspended. I had an apartment party in my 20's. The floor literally rocked, and the AR platter bounced slowly... it never skipped!

 

Maybe a SOTA Sapphire would not skip. LOL.

 

The CD player in my 87 Acura always skips when I stop at a light because of a rough idle. If I don't want it to skip I have to slip the clutch a little.

 

I'm good. I'm good, not living in Idaho. I'm good, without earthquakes. I'm good without playing CDs. I ripped my entire collection so I the discs are kept for archival reasons. Otherwise, my records play fine, even when your part of the world is trying to kill you. I get at least a 5 day notice if a hurricane ever decides to come knocking on my door.

 

I have a $20k vinyl rig, but I have a friend who produces jazz, and the vinyl rig he uses to accept or reject test pressings puts mine to shame. Maybe I just don't buy records from labels that go cheap on turntables for evaluating test pressings.

 

I bet it sounds great, except during earthquakes!

 

Although I don't have a CD transport/player, vinyl is not my only source. If an earthquake hits I can still do better than CD as long as electrical service remains.