TheLastMan;592541 Wrote: > ...I always chuckle at the first line of your sig. As somebody who has > done a bit of (very) amateur recording of (slightly less) amateur > musicians I know exactly where you are coming from.
Matt, How I love the sound of endless chains of 5532/4 op amps, cheap and nasty caps and resistors, not to mention miles of dubious cable... (or worse!) :-) I was a fully paid-up member (in every sense) of the "source first" school in the 70's / 80's. When I first heard an LP12 with a decent arm (one with good, taut bearings that didn't ring like a bell) it blew me away. I had to have one, no matter the cost. The only thing I'd heard that was preferable was top-end reel-to-reel... 10 years after, the thrill had gone. Slowly - very slowly - I began to isolate what I liked about the LP12 sound - and also why many people didn't like it so much. Tonally it was all over the place. Dynamics/excitement were great. Linn amps/speakers of the day were voiced around the rather odd midrange presentation. As a system - WHEN TUNED TO PERFECTION - it sounded great, especially with the Troika cartridge. Of course it now transpires that there were great "transports" before that - Garrard 301/401 for example - but they were badly compromised by the arms/cartridges of the day. I kept my LP12 until 1998 ( with various expensive upgrades along the way ). I wouldn't go back, but I do understand why folks still love and cherish theirs. There are about 30 albums in my collection where the best available digital master can't touch the vinyl. Mostly these are ones where the CD has never been remastered from the original 1st gen. tape, for whatever reason. As for the rest - I'm happy enough! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82155 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
