Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it.

+++ I love music and don't care where it comes from. +++

Correction, you love music but you don't care what it sounds like. You're on the wrong forum.

Regards
Paul

Shadorne, I did express myself incorrectly. One can love music without caring about the quality of sound.

Gregg takes the trouble to go to sport events, so he likes sport. He does not take the trouble to go to opera/recitals/concerts. He even considers spinning vinyl as too much trouble. Hence, he likes music a lot less. I think this assumption is both fair and accurate.

To open this debate illustrates he doesn't get it when it comes to enjoying good sound. Good sound is not worth it to him if it requires even a small amount of effort.

I know a couple of serious music lover who listen exclusively to CD. They are as much music lover as I. But they also spend an inappropriate amount on their gear and software, and they also regularly attend opera/recitals/concerts.

It is not about vinyl per se. Gregg doesn't understand the pleasure audiophile get from listening to good sound. Because he doesn't, the effort, time and money invested in our equipment does not make sense to him. It is in his opinion, not worth it.

In short, he is on the wrong forum.

I took the time to look at your system. I am sure you love music too; otherwise you would never have spent the money you have. However, it is clear we seek totally different things in our enjoyment of music.

For me, I don't want to hear my system. I want to hear the piano. Nothing more nothing less. No amount of convenience will ever make a lesser quality sound worthwhile.

Regards
Paul

+++ Do you honestly think that vinyl sounds more like live music than CD's? +++

No I don't think so. I know so.

+++ If you do you should get out more often to live unamplified events. +++

I have attended many hundreds.

My wife is classical pianist - I have literally spend thousands of hours listening to piano in my own home.

+++ Both formats are so far from real music that I have heard that any comparisons +++

So you say ... perhaps you should consider an equipment upgrade.

Thank you for telling me who Von Karajan was. Sadly he was not aware that fluorescent lights are in fact little else but gas light.

+++ Pauly, here is a challenge for you. Tell us exactly what makes vinyl more enjoyable to "music lovers" than digital or any other format.+++

I do not normally take challenges, but your question can hardly be described as such so I will indulge you.

The redbook format does not have the bandwidth to contain music. In short, CD is a low resolution format not suitable for high quality audio.

Regards
Paul

Paul that is a foolish thought that people who own CD's dont care about music.
So my dad has almost 7,000 cd's does he love music?
It would be easier to make the stretch that people who ignore CD's altogether dont really love music, seeing how only a fraction of music in the last 20 years has been issued on vinyl compared to digital. Also how could anyone ignore so many great performances of Classical(for example)
as there has been no new Classical on vinyl for years.
It would be equally easy to assume that if folks have more invested in equipment then music that they dont really love music, they love gear....but thats not always true.....right?
Oh my dad also has 3500 or so Albums, so I guess he actually likes music....go figure. Anyway on one last note my father has around $40,000 in gear and atleast $75,000 invested in music, but seeing how most of his investment dollars were spent on CD's.....he isnt REALLY a music lover correct?

Dear Gregadd: +++++ " One thing I do is love music. If I just run across a musician playing music for donations at a subway entrance. If I hear a song on the radio and sit my car after I've stopped waitning for it to end. Listening to a walkman or ipod. I love music and don't care where it comes from. " +++++

This statement is of paramount importance for the people that care about music. We that love music almost always enjoy the music through a walkman or through a music hall live concerto.

I think ( for what I understand ) that the subject in this thread is if it is worht all the time and money that we need to enjoy the music through analog. I don't let very clear my opinion in what I already posted, well: yes it is worht!!!!!.

The point here is that through digital it is worht too, we can enjoy the music with digital sources too.

IMHO, the analog sound reproduction has several tolerance/obsessive people atittude grade levels. Where are we? is an answer that is different as different people are.
I know that you enjoy/could enjoy the music through analog whithin your own grade level of tolerance/obsessive/tweak targets.

There are people that take a lot of time " playing " with VTA/VTF trying to obtain a better quality reproduction, their obsessive/tolerance grade about is really high, higher that your own grade level about.

I don't have very high grade level on VTA/VTF but I'm so high in tolerance/obsessive with distortion/noise on the cartridge signal ( step up transformers, caps, transformers, RIAA accuracy, intermodulation distortions, etc, etc ) or on the tonearm/cartridge matching. I take all the time/money I can trying to be near perfect on those areas for a better quality music reproduction. The best of all is that trying to have better quality music sound reproduction through analog I achieve too a better quality sound/music reproduction in the digital domain!!!!

Like I say: where are you? or you?

I think that all of us that cares about music take all the time/money trying to get better quality music reproduction. Obviously we are limited not only for the time/money that we can have but limited for our know-how/experiences about.

The critical problem with analog/digital music/sound reproduction is when we lost ( or almost lost ) the " energy/emotion " to take the time/money to enjoy the music in our home systems.

Gregadd, I invite you to re-start your energy/emotion on the analog music/sound reproduction.

Regards and enjoy the music.
raul.