Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital
I have not bought a vinyl record since CDs came out, but have been exposed to numerous claims that vinyl is better. I suspect jazz may be best placed to deliver on these claims, so I am looking for your recommendations.
I must confess that I do not like trad jazz much. Also I was about to fork out A$145 for Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" but bought the CD for A$12 to see what the music was like. I have kept the change!
I love the jazz in the movie Babylon, which features local Oz girl Margo Robbie (the film, not the jazz).
So what should I buy?
@lewm and everybody else! Yes, I have a mountain of advice on what jazz records to buy, and I am sifting through it all. Meanwhile if I spot new classical record releases with excellent reviews for a fifth or a tenth of the cost of the best audiophile jazz, I'll grab them! |
Your Krell preamplifier likely has a very wide bandwidth, which makes it susceptible to RFI in the environment, though perhaps not a source of RFI. RFI can get in by radiation from an outside source like a radio antenna or on the AC line via wires or on an IC connector, also via traveling on the wire. |
@richardbrand The RFI is injected directly into the phono input by the tonearm cable. If the preamp has provision for 'cartridge loading' then yes, its susceptible. |
OK, RFI via the tonearm cable makes sense! The Krell has adjustable impedance from 5 to 47,000 Ohms, set with internal switches, for MC cartridges. It has switchable gain for MM cartridges. Its frequency range is 5 to 100,000 Hz within 1 dB and it is a fully balanced design with no capacitors in the signal path. The manual talks about positioning of both the power supply and other components like CD players to minimise hum, which I have had to work on, starting with the deck. The original cables in my SME 3009 tonearm (series 2 improved with fixed head shell) must be 40 years old, and the connectors at the cartridge end have become heavily oxidised. One of the connectors came adrift when I changed cartridges and had to be soldered back. Despite this, I am thrilled with the replay quality. One day when I get more confident, I should seriously look at replacing the litz wiring but it looks like a very fiddly job. |
