And his phono Pre-Amp ...
And top it off with the best headphones in the industry ...
Posted on 08/29/2015 1:06:53 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
Nice find. Thanks for the link.
It’s like trying to build a model of an ocean waves with legos.
Many many years ago I found a collection of the wax cylinders in a storage room on our farm. I was probably seven or eight at the time, and discovered that it was a lot of fun to hit them with a hammer and break them into little pieces.
Me, too. Every play started with me carefully pulling the LP from the inner jacket with care, touching the edges only, wiping with the Disc Washer, gently putting the arm down, and closing the turntable cover as quickly as possible. I had a Thorens turntable and excellent arm and cartridges. But no matter how hard you tried, you still got pops and clicks.
I’m very happy with my entire music collection in MP3 on my 128 GB iPhone 6 Plus. Don’t miss the foregoing silly ritual AT ALL.
What?
Vinyl is not lightweight. Placed on a shelf, if the shelf is too long and not supported in the middle the weight of the LPS will bend that shelf over time. Having over 1500 LP’s just moving those alone from ‘crib’ to ‘crib’ wears you down. Then the many different venues to actually hear the tunes. From 45’s to LP’s to 8 tracks to cassettes, to reel to reel, to disk, to MP. AND, once one finds an ideal location then begins the unpacking to place all in an organized manner whereby an album can be found. When I die, who would want the collection? Who would really know what to do with it? Over 40 years of life on those shelves. Beginning with Elvis, Frankie, Stones, Vangelis, ELO, Pink Floyd. Perhaps I should be happy that tunes today are so terrible (overall) tha to collect them is quite unnecessary. Long Live ROCK and ROLL!!
Any analog to digital conversion loses information. The quantization of the analog signal makes it unavoidable. The sampling rate itself is a form of compression — you trade off file size against audio quality. Once you are beyond the human hearing limitations, there is no point to faster sample rates.
A year or so ago, I was cleaning out my crawlspace when I came across several milk crates of my old albums. My sons asked what they were, having never seen a record before. After telling them what they were, they looked at me kind of funny and asked how we played albums in the car! ROFL!!!
So I took out my old Micro Seiki turntable and told them to pick an album for me to play. God bless 'em, they chose Pink Floyd's "The Wall." Before playing it, I ran it through my record washer then put it on the turntable.
First I played "Run Like Hell" from my CD collection. Then I played "Run Like Hell" on the album.
Both agreed the album sounded better. Why? The low bass rumble on the album that's not present on the CD.
Some things you just cannot re-create digitally.
It’s all about how a CD is mastered, and when. Many CDs from the 80’s have a tinny low-bass sound, in my experience. But a CD from a modern band who recorded/mastered with vinyl in mind usually sounds great.
FReegards
And his phono Pre-Amp ...
And top it off with the best headphones in the industry ...
I like this response. I’ve always had a theory that this goes to a bigger concept that music sounds optimum when played in its original medium, because that’s what it was engineered for. “Born To Run” was engineered for vinyl - not cassette, not CD, not digital. Now, take “The Rising” - it was made when digital technology was mainstream, so it’s gonna sound a lot better on CD or MP3 than on some silly vinyl re-issue.
It’s kind of like European disdain for our beer. Most Americans like extremely cold beer, so domestic beer is made to taste best when cold. Problem is, Europeans drink beer cool, not ice cold - so when they drink our beer at room temperature, it tastes like crap.
Funny...
Ever leave those in a hot car?
“Ever leave those in a hot car?”
Yeah, it made Stag taste better.
Now that's got me thinking about what I own that was originally on CD first that I also have on vinyl to test that theory out.
One of the two arms I have mounted on my Micro Seiki is a Grado Signature Laboratory Standard arm. Always gets the “whoa, what’s that?” comments...
Imagine meeting a Grado here. Your father did some great work!
We have 2 copies of The White Album. One copy is on white vinyl.
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