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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Even more inconvenient is when your favourite artists insist on releasing everything as a double album, meaning you have to change sides every two songs.
Decent quality second hand vinyl is expensive, too.
Infact, if anyone wants to buy the above set up, pm me....
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I saw ozrics play live some years ago, I can't remember when or where or whether they were any good : )
I like listening to vinyl at a friend's house who has a big collection, but I think a large part of it is the definitely not hi-fi 1960s valve record player - with integral elliptical speakers - he has. I would guess that if you hooked a CD player up to the aux input it would sound pretty similar.
I'm probably a philistine but I honestly don't care that much - it's nice to put a record on and listen to it, but it's also nice to put a CD on and listen to it, or to have an endless stream of AAC files playing while I'm working through a mono cab with a big old sound not dissimilar from AM radio.
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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Through dilated pupils we waited expectantly only for Hawkwind to come back on!!
Gutted I never got got see them, great band.
You are right my friend but, and there is a big but, only when the replay systems are up to scratch. Vinyl is far from perfect but so too is CD. Get the technology right and the music literally speaks for itself. The notion of a 'vinyl sound' is basically imperfections in the replay. Ditto the so called 'clinically clean' sound of CD.
Vinyl is a mechanical system of music reproduction. The cartridge uses a stylus to generate two separate electrical signals. These signals are very weak and certain frequencies are boosted in the process of mastering for vinyl. The signal goes to a phono stage that boosts the signal to line level and compensates for the boosted frequencies. Thus giving a more or less flat frequency signal to the amplifer. The problem is that chain of events is very long. First question is why use vinyl unless sound quality is the requirement? CD or ripped or streamed is much simpler to implement so the decision to use vinyl is for the best sound quality. Everything in the chain has to be up to the task, one weak bit and the sound quality goes out the window. Sorry guys, but the equipment costs serious money. Get it right and it sounds great. Not a hint of warmth or cuddly sound - simply the music. The much derided pops and crackles are there but they do not get in the way of the music. But it costs a lot to get to that level of performance. Think a good new family car price. At the very least.
Digital on the other hand started poorly but got better incrementally. Fifteen years ago a £1K vinyl system would easily better a £1K digital system. Not any more as DAC technology has improved by leaps and bounds. A simple system comprising FLAC files on a computer, a USB DAC like the JKCuinas feeding a mid priced stereo amp and speakers is a revelation. Jaw dropping sound quality for relatively small money. Small that is when compared to the equivalent sound quality on vinyl.
The Linn LP12 was the standard deck for many years. It still sounds good but is way down the list of good turntables these days. The LP12 adds a bloom to the bass and is in some ways responsible for the belief that vinyl sounds 'warm'. But use a really good deck and that warmth disappears. Much like the best examples of CD replay. Ironically it was CD that highlighted this weakness in vinyl.
Which was why I asked the question in the OP. Why buy vinyl......?
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I've mentioned this before (and I'll accept it might not be the best example, but it's what I had to hand at the time) that when I bought Atoms For Peace - Amok, it came with both vinyl and CD, so I put the vinyl on my 34 year old Thorens TD166MkII and the CD into my PC and played both at the same time through a Pioneer amp and equally old Heybrook HB1s, switching back and forth between the two.
No difference whatsoever that I could hear.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
The vinyl itself is very fun to collect. Listening to it IS a different experience. You are forced not to rush around. You have to look at it, turn it over, then you realise the reason why you buy it.
I was a CD-era teenager and I've not sold any of my old CDs. When I have a big enough place they'll be out from storage.
Music is one of the greatest things in the world; I advise people to keep their old CDs/tapes/vinyl.
There's something to be said about the appeal of 12" vinyl packaging - they're so much more pleasing to handle than CDs.
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