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We have a bunch of different playback technologies here.
I’ve got a couple of portable, waterproof bluetooth speakers, one stays in the shower so I can listen to the news in the morning, and one that is used outside.
One Sonos box in the dining room for dinner music.
A Denon A.V. receiver with B&W speakers in this living room connected to the TV.
I have a turntable in the studio for sampling and some killer Kii Three monitors, I do all of my critical listenning in that room too.
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http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~hockman/documents/Pras_presentation2009.pdf
Spotify is 320kbps OGG and Apple Music is 256kbps AAC. Neither format introduces audible distortion
Vinyl playback introduces harmonic distortion as well as background noise, surface noise noise and pitch instability, and the stereo separation will only be between 20 and 30dB depending on the cartridge used. It can still sound bloody magnificent, it's one of the few areas in audio where you get what you pay for (to a point) (the other being speakers)
Disclaimer: I have a record collection, because I like having a collection and I like supporting the artists and industry. I'm more likely to sit through a whole album if I put a record on, sometimes I'll flip it a few times and listen more than once
Having said that, the so-called revival is just 157,000 people spending £400 per year:
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/05/the-vinyl-revival-is-just-a-few-blokes-buying-everything/
I have recent releases where the opposite is true, and again, probably down to mastering for digital having been, ahem, mastered, with the experience for mastering vinyl being lost over time.
People talk about the pops and crackles on vinyl but on a good TT, with well-cared for records, you barely notice.
I said maybe.....
But, you know, that was 30 years ago.
They've sort of got the hang of mastering these days, and that's no longer a valid argument.
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And then there's the recent stuff that was brickwall-limited for digital. You can't overmodulate vinyl, so there's still a few records that arguably sound better, or at least more natural.
There's room for both analogue and digital.
I said maybe.....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D4iEPU3uVDg&t=186s
For me the ONLY downside is the inconvenience, and I have just taken a decision not to mind that.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Frankly all that says is that good is better than bad.
Then again, my current car doesn't have a CD player, just a USB port. What the hell's that about?
I'm much more surprised about the small number of Blu-Ray buyers.
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"With each upgrade you hear more from the recording"
It's almost as if it was shit to start with
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I think the minimum I’d go for, to make it sound good enough, would be a rega planar 3 and rb300 tonearm or similar, a denon DL-103 cartridge, and a ProJect phonobox, which would cost 300 (2nd hand) + 175 + 90 = less than 600 quid. That is a lot of money obviously but only twice as much as a good-ish CD player. And the components tend to hold their value.
From then on, the sky’s the limit.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
There's nothing wrong with having a hobby, or enjoying records, etc. but please spare me the "vinyl is better than digital" crap.
R.
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