Onhwy61,no, you don't understand me correctly. I am perfectly happy with the VPI when synergy is attained. It sounds wonderful with well recorded lps and lousy with lousy recordings, isn't that how it should be. The Thorens, which is a lower resolution tt, sounds better with poor sounding lps, masking the things I don't like with lower quality lps.
It seems irrational to me that a turntable would make lousy sounding recordings sound good, and at the same time make quality recordings sound their best. I thought it was accepted that high resolution was the goal of higher audio. Higher resolution equipment, inherently, will reveal the warts of inferior software or partnering equipment.
Some claim the best of the best audio will ameliorate this conumdrum to some extent by attaining high resolution and maximum musicality at the same time. Therefore, some would determine my setup to be excessively analytical and lacking musicality. Perhaps this is true, however, at what point do you call a turd a turd. Even for the best of the best, there has to be some point where the weak link in the chain will negatively affect the best in the chain.
For me, that weak link in the chain is the lousy sounding software. Perhaps a more musical, and high resolution tt will make certain recordings that sound bad on my setup sound better, but there has to be some point where the bad software overwhelms the highest quality tt.
And then we have perception, perhaps my idea of what sounds bad is different than yours, perhaps my threshold of what sounds bad is excessively low.
Either way, I don't like what I'm hearing with the VPI and lousy software. Perhaps I'm wrong in thinking a lower resolution tt setup will make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but I go back to what I heard when the Thorens was my only tt. Lousy recordings sounded better, better recordings were lacking in resolution.
The VPI makes my good recordings sound like I want them to sound, so it takes care of that deficiency of the Thorens. It also makes lower quality recordings sound worse than the Thorens, thus, I want the Thorens back in for the lower quality recordings.
Neither one of these tt's does everything for me. Again I ask, as in my previous thread. If there is a tt setup that makes quality recordings sound their best, and at the same time, makes low quality recordings sound good, I would like to know about such a beast. That would be a miracle to me, a wanna buy regardless of cost! I also go back to perceptions, someone may claim they have a tt setup that does it all, it may for them, perhaps not for me.
It may be that I have too high standards for lousy recordings, however, it seems I'm not alone. Outlets that trade exclusively in high quality recordings exist, people are spending their hard earned money, in some cases hundreds of dollars for a single album. I dont' think I'm alone.
It seems irrational to me that a turntable would make lousy sounding recordings sound good, and at the same time make quality recordings sound their best. I thought it was accepted that high resolution was the goal of higher audio. Higher resolution equipment, inherently, will reveal the warts of inferior software or partnering equipment.
Some claim the best of the best audio will ameliorate this conumdrum to some extent by attaining high resolution and maximum musicality at the same time. Therefore, some would determine my setup to be excessively analytical and lacking musicality. Perhaps this is true, however, at what point do you call a turd a turd. Even for the best of the best, there has to be some point where the weak link in the chain will negatively affect the best in the chain.
For me, that weak link in the chain is the lousy sounding software. Perhaps a more musical, and high resolution tt will make certain recordings that sound bad on my setup sound better, but there has to be some point where the bad software overwhelms the highest quality tt.
And then we have perception, perhaps my idea of what sounds bad is different than yours, perhaps my threshold of what sounds bad is excessively low.
Either way, I don't like what I'm hearing with the VPI and lousy software. Perhaps I'm wrong in thinking a lower resolution tt setup will make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but I go back to what I heard when the Thorens was my only tt. Lousy recordings sounded better, better recordings were lacking in resolution.
The VPI makes my good recordings sound like I want them to sound, so it takes care of that deficiency of the Thorens. It also makes lower quality recordings sound worse than the Thorens, thus, I want the Thorens back in for the lower quality recordings.
Neither one of these tt's does everything for me. Again I ask, as in my previous thread. If there is a tt setup that makes quality recordings sound their best, and at the same time, makes low quality recordings sound good, I would like to know about such a beast. That would be a miracle to me, a wanna buy regardless of cost! I also go back to perceptions, someone may claim they have a tt setup that does it all, it may for them, perhaps not for me.
It may be that I have too high standards for lousy recordings, however, it seems I'm not alone. Outlets that trade exclusively in high quality recordings exist, people are spending their hard earned money, in some cases hundreds of dollars for a single album. I dont' think I'm alone.