Just realised how painfull mp3 really is!!

I've been listening to vinyls all night when i decided to do the the ol' A/B'ing with vinyl and mp3. Listening to The Police i happen to have their album on vinyl and mp3 in itunes. My little mixers set up with a an input from my laptop and an input from my record player, both playing at the same time i flick the switch and immediately notice that the mp3 has become quite hard to listen to after the vinyl. MP3 is sounding so harsh and lifeless and was actually making me uncomfortable listening to it.

Vinyl will live on forever...

The way i see it with CD sales falling and the rise of the download, wouldn't it be nice to abolish CD's altogether and have high street shops like HMV just selling vinyls. It wont limit sales, it wont stop people buying the mp3 downloads it will just mean better quality audio for anyone listening at home on their record player.

CD's are in a weird grey area or portability and sound quality. They have average sound quality and average portability.

The MP3 maximum portability and crap sound quality but who cares when your just listening on your headphones on the go.

The vinyl maximum sound quality for when your at home chilling with one going round in the background.

There's no need for the middle man here...send CD's to their doom!!!!!!

Operating Systems & Visuals

In my opinion the only operating systems that are worth while working with (wwwwow) are MAC OSX and WINDOWS XP (pro)!

Vista and 7 are just bloated with a load of processes running in the background that will hog your CPU and besides who cares a fancy flashing desktop with countless widgets when the only with you want to look at is your DAW.

This brings me to another point.hmmm

You don't really want to be looking at anything when your mixing, you want to be listening. Eye catching graphics and so on distract your brain and take up a bit of 'CPU' space in your brain (effectively). I want my brain to be focused 100& on audio when I'm mixing/analyzing sounds.
That's something i notice about Logic, its a little too pretty perhaps? a bit too visual? I find the pro tools interface on the other hand quite boring so I'm less excited about how things look and focus on the sound more closely.

There's definably some research to be done here...