Recording took longer in waiting for the finished product, but shorter if you include crashes, glitches, coasters and all the other crap that happens with digital. We havd sacrificed quality for size in two of my favorite mediums, music and photography. MP3's mostly suck for sound, and unless you're using pro gear, 35mm still kills digital, and even with pro the grain structure is still better.

But you can carry 1000 songs is your pocket, or 500 pictures on a credit card size camera. Who cares what it sounds or looks like.
Just my luddite rant for the day.

You know; your earlier rant is indicative of how I hear a lot of people explaining how they feel about all this new but useless technology. First they use everyone as guinea pigs by selling the crap before it is perfected and letting the consumers endure the problems; "Model's 1-5 all suck; you must buy model no 6."
Then all the copyright hoohah; they can't sell music because it isn't much good, so they slap tons of program driven locks on everything to make it worse. Now I hear the newest digital equipment will have the copyguard built-in to the units; and as usual it will compromise the sound.
You know what? I'm sticking with vynil; the weasals can't mess with that.

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I've started collecting vinyl I find here and there. At an estate sale I went to for giggles last week this guy had 6-700 albums, mostly classical. So I picked up a few of the compilation sets and some single albums I thought might be interesting, but I didn't see anything that I remembered as being a "must have". My wife thinks I'm nuts as I don't even have a preamp or TT yet. But I keep telling her that when I finally get one I'll have stuff to listen to!

You did WHAT with the stylus?