Very interesting blog post, Tim! It was a sad day when my old Ariston RD40 with Benz Micro moving coil cartridge got crushed by a falling cd rack - how's that for irony? While my current cd playback system does a decent job, there was a certain "something" about vinyl that is missing in digital reproduction.
Of course hi-fidelity sound reproduction will soon be a thing of the past for all but the well-heeled. Cd's will soon go the way of vinyl to be only available at garage sales and second hand stores or made in very small quantities for specialty dealers. In the meanwhile enjoy your record player. I envy you. Cheers, frank "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Tim Bray <tb...@textuality.com> Sent: February 3, 2012 2/3/12 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> Subject: Re: OT question for electronics geeks Since we're descending into a morass of audio geekdom: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/03/04/Record-Player (with a decent picture, too). -T On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:06 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com <knarftheria...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's even worse than that. > > I remember friends who bought receivers and bragged about how "powerful" > their equipment was, proving it by getting ear-splitting volume by turning > the knob up to 3 (out of 10). > > "CAN'T TURN IT ABOVE 3!", they'd shout over the music, "IT GETS TOO LOUD!" > > What they didn't mention is that beyond 3.1 the amp clipped so bad it made > blood spurt out your ears. > > All it really meant is that the volume control was a waste of 3/4 of its > rotation and therefore was able to do only a mediocre job (at best) of > effectively modulating the volume. > > It was all marketing, wasn't it? > > cheers, > frank > > "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- > Christopher Hitchens > > --- Original Message --- > > From: Doug Franklin <do...@nutdriver.org> > Sent: February 3, 2012 2/3/12 > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Subject: Re: OT question for electronics geeks > > > > C'mon folks, it's really very simple. The "self-loudness" ratings that > consumer electronics give themselves have NO ASSOCIATION WITH ANYTHING > REAL! I mean, really, why are you kidding yourselves? The circuit does > something, the "volume" knob turns through a certain arc. What the Hell > does that have to do with the runes inscribed on the faceplate? > Especially after some "designer" with a "name" gets hold of it? > > -- > Doug "Lefty" Franklin > NutDriver Racing > http://NutDriver.org > Facebook "NutDriver Racing" > Sponsored by Murphy > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > 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 > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
