Interesting thread filled with very worthwhile posts! Hopefully this post will be up to these high standards!
Thanks Andy for the link to that most amusing video. Is that the same Mr. Smith from the Matrix movies because they sure do look very similar. I have a fairly good vinyl rig (one of those Linns that Mnyb mentioned) and about 2,000 LPs since I didn't sell off my vinyl when CDs were introduced. For whatever reason I still feel that vinyl playback, i.e. analog, has better bass than digital. Also there ae times when I'm listening to a record that I think what was so wrong with vinyl that they had to introduce CD and then I remember that CDs were introduced to replace cassettes which had overtaken LP sales back in the early 1980s. I guess the record companies though that since CDs were not recordable that CDs would cut down on all the copying that was going on with cassettes back then. Little did they know what a monster they unleashed. Anyway there are times that good old vinyl can sound fantastic. I kind of view analog and digital like this: analog is a great recording and playback medium but a really bad storage medium whereas digital is a very good recording and playback medium and an excellent storage medium. In other words each one has its pluses and minuses. My audiophile journey has been a long one which started over 30 years ago. Like Mnyb and Gary I too went through my audiophool stage and as a result I had some over priced wires and cables in my system but I also have, like many other forum members, a stereo system which has almost no "mass market" equipment in it. I all too often bash the high end audio magazines but I have to admit that most high end audio equipment sounds much better than most mass market equipment. For example the Sony soundbar that I have in the guest room is noticeably inferior to almost all my other equipment. Sure it plays music but the soundbar is like a cheap pair of earbuds while my main stereo is like a top of the line pair of Sennheiser headphones. My current audiophile philosophy can be summed up as if I "think" I hear a difference rather than "know" I hear a difference then the whatever difference there may in fact be it just isn't all that much. Change an interconnect cable, oh I think I hear a difference. Blow a mid-range driver, man I know I hear a difference. And finally I'll take a standard resolution 1940's mono recording of Billie Holiday over a high resolution recording of almost any modern day singer anytime! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98057 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
