PS. if your sound system and recordings are right, the people WILL stop talking and start listening, its called capivating. Thats what great sound and music does...
As for appreciating music, you can never appreciate sounds you dont hear, and thats what lossy audio systems do, prevent you from hearing whats to be heard. You may still "enjoy" whats left, but theres the BIG difference between basic amusing enjoyment and total musical ecstacy. I prefer the latter. -- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) Join the CD PLAYER & DISC Discussions : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdsound/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom C Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 1:07 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Vinyl vs. Digital J.C., it is worth the trade-off for some, even for me, who started this thread. It's worth the trade-off to be portable, because my choice at that point in time is music vs. no music. Sound vs. no sound. So I trade-off and utilize the format that best accomodates the circumstances. If I'm flying it's iPod, or if in my vehicle it's the iPod or CD. If I have guests at the house, I doubt I'll take the trouble to play an LP because they'll be conversing and not paying attention anyway. I agree sound comes first, but that's mediated by the circumstances, location, time, etc. Many people never go to the local Symphony or Philharmonic. Now there's some music that can really move you and is a "sonic masterpiece". But that doesn't mean they don't appreciate or enjoy music. Same goes for people that would prefer a different recorded music format. Tom On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:53 AM, J.C. O'Connell <[email protected]> wrote: > Im not against the benefits of digital and CD, the problem > is that SOUND comes first, if you have to give up the power and the > majesty of the true masterpieces in modern music for a pale facimile > to get portability, then it aint worth the tradeoff and > never will be. I have it all, LP, CD, SACD, MP3, DVD, BD, etc. but > I would not want to give up LP because its simply better > in most cases, and is incredibly better in some cases. > I feel sorry for those who have never experienced the pleasure > of truly great music in truly great sound as it was recorded. > Bottom line is you don't know what a true sonic masterpiece is > because there arent any on CD or MP3. Those are all excellent > at best, but are NEVER TRULY GREAT. Its degrading to the art, and > the most degrading to the very finest of those artworks, which > is totally unacceptable to me and many others. > > -- > J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) > Join the CD PLAYER & DISC Discussions : > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ > http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdsound/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Tom C > Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 12:25 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: OT: Vinyl vs. Digital > > > Granted there are benefits to digital. I too travel quite a bit, and > am sure I can't take a turntable, miniamp, and LP collection as > carryons, much less find a power source, :-) > > It's all about choices and compromises. Given the choice, I think I'd > prefer to listen to an LP if available and convenient. If not, it's a > CD or iPod. With a large CD collection, mega CD changers are a > blessing, not having to get up and change the CD's. I haven't > explored music servers yet, but the two CD changers are not filled up. > > Tom > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:10 AM, steve harley <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 2009-11-13 03:23 , J.C. O'Connell wrote: >>> >>> All the benefits of digital are worthless if it doesn't sound as >>> good > >>> as the LP version, >> >> that's like saying the benefits of digital photography, and/or or >> compact cameras, are worthless if the photos don't look as good as >> large format photography >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> and > >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
