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Old 05-31-2022, 03:30 PM   #21 (permalink)
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I have a nice copy of John and Alice Coltrane's Cosmic Music, original pressing, and it has some pops. It's a f*cking rare ass record though so I don't really care. It's existence is the special part.
All my LP’s are for playing apart from an original Beatles ‘White Album’ sealed in original packaging. They fetch silly prices these days. I’ve left it in my will to a relative who’s a nutty Beatles fan. He nearly fainted when I showed it to him. He collects Beatles memorabilia from concert tickets to all kinds of stuff I’d regard as rubbish.
A friend collects AC/DC memorabilia almost triggering a divorce when he had an extension built onto the house for his massive collection. Go figure.
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Old 05-31-2022, 04:29 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Are they? So you're saying that if I bought, say, Ziggy Stardust on vinyl now it would sound different to the copy I already have, bought in the early 80s? Is it worth paying over four times the price though?
They will generally sound different from CDs / streaming, yes. You can see more about this in the video I posted if you want.

I assume different releases of the same album on vinyl will also usually sound different, although probably less apparent. They can release it with a previously used master, buy if they have a stereo mixdown (which I assume is usually the case), it seems reasonable to assume one would master it again for a new release. You can put it through some new hardware / software, perhaps update it a bit according to the times (bit more compression / loudness maybe), etc. At least if the master is old and you're able, it seems weird not to do it.
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Old 06-14-2022, 06:00 AM   #23 (permalink)
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I think in general the larger percentage of those who say "I love vinyl" are younger people just discovering it. They don't remember when all we had was vinyl, and by Christ was it a godsend when CDs came along!
i grew up in the late 80s-early 90s. my family only had a vinyl player.

of course vinyl isn't prefect, but it's a little slice of nostalgia for me.........also, i don't actually own a CD player.
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Old 06-15-2022, 09:46 PM   #24 (permalink)
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Old 06-16-2022, 04:43 PM   #25 (permalink)
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Sorry if this comes across as rude but you lot have no idea what you’re talking about.
https://www.stereophile.com/content/...ion-turntables
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Sorry if this comes across as rude but you lot have no idea what you’re talking about.
https://www.stereophile.com/content/...ion-turntables
If you've invested in vinyl equipment with prices like this:

TechDAS Air Force One Premium: $162,000 w/titanium upper platter

You better hope we don't know what we're talking about.
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Old 06-17-2022, 04:56 AM   #27 (permalink)
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If you've invested in vinyl equipment with prices like this:

TechDAS Air Force One Premium: $162,000 w/titanium upper platter

You better hope we don't know what we're talking about.
You don’t. . . . . . . https://www.stereophile.com/content/...-elite-tonearm

There are overpriced pieces of junk selling well in many fields, cars, clothes, watches, turntables. However, none of that changes the laws of physics and electronics in relation to LP reproduction. Getting a microscopically small sculptured diamond to track the grooves in an LP is a mature science the rules of which are well known. The fact so many of you know nothing of these and/or have never experienced a state of the art analogue system strutting its stuff changes none of this. Having said that it needs to be noted that there are many excellent yet reasonably priced LP decks/cartridges out there BUT the fact must be faced to get the very best out of this particular technology requires serious money and commitment. I can understand why few have the inclination or disposable income to follow that path. Being the owner of thousands of LP’s in mint or near mint condition is only one of my reasons for going down a path I expect few to follow. Don’t however try and tell me I’m wasting my hard earned money unless you really know what you’re talking about.
Now here’s something to really make steam come out of your ears.

https://www.stereophile.com/content/...ono-cartridges
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Old 06-17-2022, 06:04 AM   #28 (permalink)
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Getting a microscopically small sculptured diamond to track the grooves in an LP is a mature science the rules of which are well known.
Sure, you can spend tens of thousands on getting a deck that eliminates some of the common problems with LPs. Like you write, it's gonna cost ya.

Or you could, you know, switch to a medium which doesn't have those problems, is more convenient and generally has better masters (digital).

Why spend thousands polishing a turd?

As someone who makes music, I find it morbidly interesting to see someone could willingly spend more money on a turntable than I spent on my entire studio.

In music production communities, they talk about GAS which is short for Gear Acquisition Syndrome which is a sort of mental illness where you just gotta have stuff or better stuff for less and less gain. You can lose sight of the important stuff. I sometimes like to think about studios like Motown and how they'd cut their cables and just twine them together. So many recording engineers, producers, musicians didn't have state of the art equip or barely knew what they were doing, yet still managed to make great music. The beauty in a song isn't found in the 70 000+ Hz frequencies that your diamond stylus can pick up (and that generally don't exist because we cut them off with an EQ).
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Old 06-17-2022, 07:50 PM   #29 (permalink)
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Sure, you can spend tens of thousands on getting a deck that eliminates some of the common problems with LPs. Like you write, it's gonna cost ya.

Or you could, you know, switch to a medium which doesn't have those problems, is more convenient and generally has better masters (digital).

Why spend thousands polishing a turd?
Because on my system playing my LP’s there’s nothing ’turdlike' to be heard. As to ‘better masters’ are you aware a high proportion of the digital files you’ve been listening too from a few decades ago were copied from analogue masters ?
My morbid interest in pursuing something you regard as a necessarily inferior technology? Consider the fact I’ve inherited multiple thousands of pristine LP’s, most played only once on high-end gear, many of which have never been re-released in digital format.


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As someone who makes music, I find it morbidly interesting to see someone could willingly spend more money on a turntable than I spent on my entire studio.
How I spend my money is my business. You’re free to denigrate that pursuit if it makes you feel superior is some misguided manner. You might also be interested to know I listen to high-resolution digital downloads of recently recorded music. As to spending ‘more money on a turntable than you’ve spent on your entire studio’ you aren’t in the possession of the actual figures to make that comparison. Nor do you have the slightest understanding of what is required to get the best from analogue and I’m sure you’ve never heard it unless in you’re delusion digital files you’ve praised were actually taken from analogue masters.
In short I’m again saying you’ve no idea what you’re talking about.
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