darrenyeats;293610 Wrote: > Well you asked for it. :) > > I think vinyl is laughable. Utterly ridiculous. The last time I heard a > turntable was at a hi-fi show a few weeks ago. A piece of classical > music was playing and as soon as the pops and crackles started I walked > out of the room directly. Totally off-putting and just unacceptable for > realistic reproduction. > > Maybe not all vinyl makes that noise, but the fact a vinyl loving > exhibitor thought THAT was acceptable speaks volumes about the > tunnel-hearing vinyl crowd. > > Maybe if there was an analogue format that didn't have glaring and > frankly anachronistic short-comings then I would give it a second > listen. > > This is only IMHO and I realise YMMV. [Blows smoking pistol barrel] :) > Darren
Dear Darren, I agree with you that pops and crackles are inconvenient, but the truth is that vinyl lovers are more than prepared to live with those seldom annoyances just for the real and incomparable pleasure vinyl gives 99% of the time. As with digital you have to live 100% of the time with fake sound floor and digital sounding lows and highs, among its other problems. Playing vinyl has become a pleasurable ritual for me, from the selection of the album, removing it from the sleeve, looking at the album art, cleaning it, turning on the TT, brushing the stylus, fixing the record clamp, lowering the arm, LISTENING, repeating steps to change to the B side, LISTENING, removing the clamp, the record, and putting it back into the sleeve... So yes, maybe vinyl is more difficult and inconvenient, but usually it is from the most difficult things that we get more pleasure out of. Of course I dont play vinyl all the time, when I have friends in or my family is in the room, when I want to play music that was not released on vinyl or when Im exhausted I have the Transporter, which also gives me great listening pleasure, but I realized that this pleasure last max 2 hours. You should give it a try, audio shows are the worst place to audition equipment, go to your dealer and seat quietly in the audition room, and then Im sure you will begin to understand why digital just hasnt cut it...yet.. -- GuyDebord Verity Audio Tamino X2 wired with v/d Hul Inspiration, REL Strata5. AMPS: Pathos Classic One MKIII's in mono config. ANALOGUE: Clearaudio Ambient CMB, Satisfy Carbon & Lyra Helikon SL, Nagra VPS phono preamp, link: AcousticZen Silver Reference2 XLRs. DIGITAL: SlimDevices Transporter, link: WireWorld SilverEclipse 5.2. POWER: Isotek MiniSub GII, Isotek Elite cables (MiniSub, Rel), Siltech SPX30 MKII (Nagra), v/d Hul Mainstream (Pathos) & v/d Hul Mainserver (Transporter). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GuyDebord's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14587 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46547
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