I was just reading a NYTimes article about manual coffee makers, and how some people get pleasure from spending several minutes hand pouring water into their coffee making devices. I believe LPs can produce similar feelings in many people (aligning cartridges, handling the LPs, cleaning them, building up expectations about eventual sound, etc.). I would rather get my pleasure from actually drinking a good cup of coffee--and from actually listening to music.
I am also quite sensitive to noise compared to most people I meet, so LPs have always been a problem for me. Yes, clean LPs played on high end equipment can have much less apparent levels of surface noise than cheap equipment, but they never have none. For me, this noise virtually always intrudes on the illusion of hearing real instruments. I have infuriated a number of analog fanatics by complaining about surface noise artifacts in their "absolutely realistic sounding" systems. -- ncarver ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ncarver's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15905 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85590 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
