Mike Sargent wrote: > I think there is serious money to be made by someone who builds a device > that sits between a CD player and an amp that introduces all of the > distortions, frequency limitations, wow & flutter, etc. that vinyl has, > and then periodically adds a click or snap to the audio and maybe even > once a day skips forward or backward on a particularly loud passage to > simulate a tone arm skip. An extra cost option would allow the user to > control just how badly the mismatch is between the RIAA equalization > curve applied during recording and playback. It could include a > magnifying glass so CD artwork appears as big as an album cover. > > I think I'm off to the patent office. > > Mike
Hate to burst your bubble but there already is a way to accomplish this and it's called a needle drop, i.e. playing a record and digitally recording it. Plus you can even set the bit depth and sampling rate to something like 24bit/96kHz in order to a high resolution version of all those vinyl distortions. And by not doing any kind post recording clean up one can capture all those lovely vinyl clicks and pops as well. Sure your device would be much more convenient but after all what do vinyl lovers care about convenience. Needle drops for all!!!!! Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103078 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
