yeah the best CDs on the best CD gear are very good, maybe even excellent sounding, but if you use those adjectives for CD, the best vinyl repro goes beyond that, into exquisite, sublime, and truly phenomenal territory. No matter how you describe it, LP at its best is still an audible notch above the best CD sound...
Its like the difference between very happy and delighted or delighted and ecstatic. Whatever you call the CD base, the LP ascension is still even better, and to a real emotional degree, not some sort of technical only on paper theoretical folly. -- 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 Tim Bray Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 4:19 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Vinyl vs. Digital You know, I don't want to get into excessive enablement, but it really does seem to be true that the more you invest in your LP playback gear, the better it sounds, and high-end turntables are among the purest engineering poetry. For some eye candy I recommend a visit to http://recordplayer.com/ - I have an S-9 and when people want to hear what all the fuss is, I put on an early-60s Kingston Trio record, in mono, and play "Go Bum Again" and people just melt visibly. Having said that, I would add, speaking as a deranged sicko audiophile, that these days, high-quality CD sound is really very good indeed; as good as any recorded medium you can buy. It's just that, first of all, there's a lot of fine music out there that you just can't get except on vinyl, and secondly, mainstream commercial recordings of most eras are designed to sound good on car radios. There are artists who insist on audiophile recording techniques (Neil Young, Cowboy Junkies, White Stripes) but they're in a minority. If you want your heart to melt, sit down with some Cowboy Junkies in a dark room on a seriously-good audiophile playback system. -Tim -- 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.
