Interesting takes Hugh. Makes me consider what or why I like what I do, given the analogy of analog vinyl.
Portability, ease of play and the setting of my listening opportunities caused me to part with my vinyl collection. I couldn't afford any of the equipment that differentiated the aural quality of vinyl so well. It was through friends' (of fewer hobbies) equipment I was able to hear and appreciate that difference. I've always had 4-cylinder, manual transmission cars. To me they provide feedback and control of my intentions and reward my participation in any mode of driving, surface (or lack thereof) better than automatics. Vehicles with manu-matic functions are a joke in comparison to what it is I appreciate about driving manual gearbox vehicles. Double-clutching a downshift to an un-syncronized gear or heel-and-toeing an RPM-matched downshift just seemed as much a skill as signaling turns. I ride 8-speed friction completely on my Rambouillet. I like doing it myself and I am THE reason a shift occurs well or not. I can pick and mix my components (not the manufacturer), and enjoy the outcome. I went over the bars of my Ram when what seemed like a solid indexed shift skipped several teeth when I climbed out of the saddle accelerating. Never happened on a friction shift. I ride my commuter in 9-speed index mode. 9 cogs starts getting too fine for friction to be as perfect as with 7 or 8. It has bar ends so I'm not a pedestrian if it quits working well enough to hold a gear. Niggling minutia culminating with shifting malfunctions intrudes on my cycling. Merits of indexing are outweighed by the amount and frequency of maintenance and lower tolerances of the sum of compatible parts to function as they accumulate wear. Riding my bike is what I get from servicing my bike, I don't particularly feel rewarded by working on it. It's just the investment that is necessary for the reward it provides. I wrenched for ten years in another phase of my life and value my saddle time instead. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Friday, March 31, 2017 at 12:19:47 AM UTC-4, Hugh Smitham wrote: > > With you here Ray. I spin Vinyl on two systems not tubed but Solid State > Marantz and Sansui. The Aural quality can't be beat IMO. > > I can live with or without friction. Personally I like index but on > occasion have shifted friction only, it works. > > Jim S the book looks interesting thanks for posting, always on the lookout > for a good read. > > ~h > > > On Thursday, March 30, 2017 at 9:39:29 AM UTC-7, Ray Varella wrote: > > Patrick et al, > > One thing that vinyl used to add, and I can't say if it > does today, is the element of listening to an entire side or both sides of > an album. > > Add some friends to the mix and you pass around the album cover, read > the liner notes and anything else the band or producers had to say about > the making of the recording. > > It involved a level of social interaction that doesn't exist while > wearing earbuds. > > It required an attention span that involved listening to more than one > cut. > > Music today is very convenient but most people don't listen to more than > one song by a given artist. > > > > I confess to still owning and listening to vinyl, on vintage tube gear > no less. The sound quality drwarfs anything available on a compressed > format but it really loses in the convenient column. > > > > Ray > > Vallejo CA > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
