analog rules
May 24, 2018 18:52:47 #
May 24, 2018 19:38:59 #
Digital is not exactly the same. The lower the sampling rate on the conversion, the lousier it sounds.
I kept ALL my vinyl!
(pops, clicks, and all)
I kept ALL my vinyl!
(pops, clicks, and all)
May 25, 2018 06:59:16 #
Haven’t seen a Thorens in a proverbial dog’s age. Mine went the way of my Sony open reel tape deck - awesome sound but got tired of splicing. I went digital soon after the first CDs emerged in the early ‘80s and haven’t looked back - my first purchases were the Carmina Burana and the Four Seasons. Now you can find multiple versions of almost anything on YouTube and, with decent equipment, the sound is quite tolerable (except to true stereophiles who are always looking for that perfect concert hall sound that doesn’t exist since different concert halls can have wildly different acoustics).
May 25, 2018 10:34:29 #
Good Vinyl blows CDs out of the water every time!
May 25, 2018 10:57:34 #
Are you still running amps/preamps with KT66s? I have some nice B&W speakers and everything else is solid state.
May 25, 2018 11:30:26 #
cdayton wrote:
Are you still running amps/preamps with KT66s? I have some nice B&W speakers and everything else is solid state.
My Center channel is a bi-amped arrangement with single ended triode 810 vacuum tube output section(s). Everything else is SS. MartinLogan Prodigy main stereo speakers bi-amped also.
May 25, 2018 13:57:01 #
I have always owned high end, hifi equipment.
I remember back when 45's and lp's were it. Once in a while you would see a reel to reel.
Again, I remember going to the record store, coming home with a new album. Talking it out of the sleeve so carefully, no fingerprints allowed. Blowing gently, any offending dust off. Placing it on my Thornes turntable, my cleaner and fluid in hand. Making sure the record and needle were spotless. Gently placing the tone arm down. And then...… snap, crackle, and pop.
It drove me mad.
I was in the stereo store one day, this was when CD's were brand new. I watched the salesman take a CD disk put on the carpeted floor, then he rubbed around with his foot. He picked it up put in in a player, and it played flawlessly. Not one snap, pop, crackle or even a hint of a hiss.
I bought one on the spot. At the time there was only about 10 different disks for sale. I came home with Springsteen's. Born to run and Ry Cooder's, Bop till you drop. I never bought a LP again.
I remember back when 45's and lp's were it. Once in a while you would see a reel to reel.
Again, I remember going to the record store, coming home with a new album. Talking it out of the sleeve so carefully, no fingerprints allowed. Blowing gently, any offending dust off. Placing it on my Thornes turntable, my cleaner and fluid in hand. Making sure the record and needle were spotless. Gently placing the tone arm down. And then...… snap, crackle, and pop.
It drove me mad.
I was in the stereo store one day, this was when CD's were brand new. I watched the salesman take a CD disk put on the carpeted floor, then he rubbed around with his foot. He picked it up put in in a player, and it played flawlessly. Not one snap, pop, crackle or even a hint of a hiss.
I bought one on the spot. At the time there was only about 10 different disks for sale. I came home with Springsteen's. Born to run and Ry Cooder's, Bop till you drop. I never bought a LP again.
May 25, 2018 15:16:22 #
Dedo
Loc: NY, Uruguay
Longshadow wrote:
Digital is not exactly the same. The lower the sampling rate on the conversion, the lousier it sounds.
I kept ALL my vinyl!
(pops, clicks, and all)
I kept ALL my vinyl!
(pops, clicks, and all)
I would argue that the pops and clicks would greatly detract from
a beautiful piece of music. In which case a digital version would
be far superior.
May 25, 2018 15:20:06 #
Dedo wrote:
I would argue that the pops and clicks would greatly detract from
a beautiful piece of music. In which case a digital version would
be far superior.
a beautiful piece of music. In which case a digital version would
be far superior.
They do, but they're nostalgic pops and clicks.
May 25, 2018 15:47:27 #
May 25, 2018 20:25:17 #
If you can get past a little snap, crackle and pop, the quality of sound is much better on a vinyl disc, even the old 78 rpm.
May 25, 2018 23:00:50 #
My experience is that better modern cartridges with a more refined stylus shape, a good disc wash/vacuuming system, and finally heavier weight vinyl recordings all make pops and clicks pretty much no problem.
Can you damage a record, yes, but I've sent records back to the retailer that had problems or even higher than acceptable "surface noise."
If you haven't listened to a good vinyl system since the CD came out (1983) then you need to do so before commenting on what the current state of vinyl recordings sounds like.
Can you damage a record, yes, but I've sent records back to the retailer that had problems or even higher than acceptable "surface noise."
If you haven't listened to a good vinyl system since the CD came out (1983) then you need to do so before commenting on what the current state of vinyl recordings sounds like.
May 26, 2018 03:04:51 #
I still have a matched system Sansui receiver and turn table with 4 floor speakers that I bought in 1970 in japan also hooked up to the rec.is a akai real to real . Ad about 150 real to real tapes and 100 albums & 45s an Im a happy man. What I always did when I bought a record was play it one time and record it to tape and put the record away.Some of the records I have have only been played one time.Im a child of the 60s and still love my oldies. Anyone who likes the music from that time can still find it at Oldies.com
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