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Tony your just CD Phobic 

Tony your just CD Phobic![]()
I want the real thing - I want an album as it was originally released
Originally posted by sideshowbob
Wanting to hear an album as it was originally released, having a sense of how a record fits into history, is as much a musical reason as a nostalgic one.
They do also sound better, generally speaking (i.e., more like real instruments and voices) than most CDs, which is a nice bonus.
Having said that, what's wrong with being a record collector? If you love music, why not collect its physical manifestations?
-- Ian
But I don't confuse the nostalgia and pride of ownership with better sound reproduction.
Originally posted by sideshowbob
Wanting to hear an album as it was originally released, having a sense of how a record fits into history, is as much a musical reason as a nostalgic one.
They do also sound better, generally speaking (i.e., more like real instruments and voices) than most CDs, which is a nice bonus.
Having said that, what's wrong with being a record collector? If you love music, why not collect its physical manifestations?
-- Ian
On the sound quality thing - well, Id maintain that it depends on the individual slice of vinyl
Originally posted by The Devil
Dom, two words: Wall + Shelf.
Any suspended TT on a suspended floor will get footfall problems. You are merely describing sub-optimal setup, and your criticism has no validity.
Originally posted by Lodger
...time for a Camberwell Carrot :beamup:
Originally posted by Lodger
re the cd vs vinyl debate - here's my perception of it... everyone goes on about purity but your DACs are actually manufacturing(synthesising?) a reasonable chunk (small BUT reasonable!) of the sound you are listening to (sound that was not created in the studio)... a digitally produced sine wave comprises of steps as opposed to the smooth analogue waves produced by a needle on vinyl hence the converting of digital sound encoding must involve the adding of code to smooth out these "rough" edges?
Originally posted by Lodger
I think the human brain can tell at a subliminal level whether it is listening to an analogue-analogue vs digital-analogue sound - and what I imagine high-end digital equipment is trying to do is to adequately fill the gaps in a brain-convincing manner... analogue is "organic" sound is the word I think I am looking for - it is not necessarily always a neat and tidy sound but it is one your mind can feel more empathy with.... we are organic beings after all. Hifi I guess is the struggle by mortals to put the organic back into the clinically synthesised...