I got back in to Vinyl around 2000. At the time many shops began springing up that sold used lps. I had spent years lost browsing shelves in record stores in the pre digital days and browsing CDs was not an equivalent experience, especially because I listen to Classical and the liner notes are so informative. Many of the used lps I browsed had never been digitalized. I began reading Fremer, Dudley et. Al and caught the vinyl bug.
Fast forward 15 years. My analog system consists of a Musical Surroundings pre amp and a Clearaudio Concept tt with matching my cart. By now, all of my recordings have been digitalized. I own many audiophile lps, SACDs, Hi Rez downloads. I begin to compare my lps with digital, and it’s no comparison—I prefer digital every time, by a wide margin. Even plain vanilla red book beats audiophile vinyl, and no pops, clicks, dust bunnies, static build up...Fortunately the rest of the World has fallen for vinyl, so I sell my $3500 analog front end for a 50% markup and buy a super DAC. My wife is thrilled to see the moldy vinyl albums leave the house.
I do not understand why people regard extracting vibrations from a spinning slab of petroleum with an expensive sewing needle that is gouging defects in the petroleum with each playing as Audiophile Nirvana. However, there is Not a lot in our current world that I do understand...
Fast forward 15 years. My analog system consists of a Musical Surroundings pre amp and a Clearaudio Concept tt with matching my cart. By now, all of my recordings have been digitalized. I own many audiophile lps, SACDs, Hi Rez downloads. I begin to compare my lps with digital, and it’s no comparison—I prefer digital every time, by a wide margin. Even plain vanilla red book beats audiophile vinyl, and no pops, clicks, dust bunnies, static build up...Fortunately the rest of the World has fallen for vinyl, so I sell my $3500 analog front end for a 50% markup and buy a super DAC. My wife is thrilled to see the moldy vinyl albums leave the house.
I do not understand why people regard extracting vibrations from a spinning slab of petroleum with an expensive sewing needle that is gouging defects in the petroleum with each playing as Audiophile Nirvana. However, there is Not a lot in our current world that I do understand...