paulster wrote: > Great blog post. I love my vinyl, but I hate that I have to love > listening to vinyl to get better quality sound out of an inferior > medium, because of the ongoing loudness wars!
Yeah. That's a tragedy IMO! As much as I can enjoy needle drops, they're still obviously not as good as the original direct-to-digital. Please indulge me for a second... /rant on!/ It's really quite sad that on the one hand we have folks like Neil Young pushing digital but seemingly -moronic- in relying on "big numbers" to impress the populace who I think have essentially had enough. Who knows if this can be turned around, but I honestly hope Neil can start speaking sense. On the other hand we have vinyl pushers like Mike Fremer promoting a technologically obsolete format which has ZERO chance of going mainstream again no matter how much of a revival it might enjoy at this time. I wish I could enjoy his comedy shtick promoting vinyl like this if only I weren't so disgusted. Tonight I see he has a review of the new Dylan album. Good review and I might pick up the album... However, he insists the CD sounds bad and even considered if the better sounding vinyl was because it originated from the 24-bit master. Yeah, right... Unless they're different masterings, the idea of hearing the "improvement" 24-bit makes after going through the vinyl LP process is beyond ridiculous. There are other possibilities, but -how can anyone in their right mind even declare this kind of hypothesis with a straight face and consider himself educated as an audio reviewer!?- Looking around the Net we find... Mike Lavorgna on AudioStream. I think he's a nice enough guy but in the business of advertisement. But there's all the crazy tweaks and Synergistic wares peddled by that Steve Plaskin guy. Horrifying. I don't know what to think of the Computer Audiophile any more. Looks like he's happy to take a sponsorship to visit a factory and basically regurgitates ad copy in those "reviews". Lately posting up audiophile-approved pretentious "designs" of computers that bear unpronounceable names with claims of audible superiority. Jeez... If one is going to talk about improved jitter, lower noise (like with filtered "clean" USB ports), please, at least demonstrate *something* to show the components made a difference as claimed. These things are measurable, right!? Stereophile, TAS, Hi-Fi+, UHF Magazine here in N. America... What's there to say? Sadly, these are the mouthpieces of audiophilia. I have a feeling that the MQA rhetoric is going to get "good" in the months ahead. Prepare for Bob Stuart the salesman taking over from Neil Young. /rant off!/ Despite my general pessimism, I actually have a contrarian streak which is telling me -maybe it really is darkest before the dawn-... Archimago's Musings: (archimago.blogspot.com) A 'more objective' audiophile blog. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103078 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
