Tube Biasing: do I have to?

Skrivis writes "I feel that CDs are an improvement over vinyl records"
Whoa!! You are kidding right?

Lets not forget that an interest in good equipment has nothing to do with ones ability to hear well.An interest serves a myriad of needs,desires and cravings which have nothing whatsoever to do with the sounds we hear.Thats why the pursuit of wonderful sounds is so individual and so unpredictable.

Judy426>Whoa!! You are kidding right?

Not at all. The built-in distortions of vinyl are so horrible that any slight problems with CDs are rendered meaningless.

The problems with digital are curable, while the problems with vinyl are not.

Skrivis, I don't know if you've experienced a quality vinyl setup, and i realize that everyone hears something different. Theoretically, and using measureable data, what you are saying may be true, but to my ears, vinyl beats the crap out of cd, i don't even listen to my cd gear that much anymore, and i was a cd man for a long time, i guess i just always get curious when someone prefers cd sound, i just wonder why they can't hear what i'm hearing, but to each his own.

I could speculate that you've never heard a quality CD setup. :-)

Euphonic distortions sell an awful lot of equipment, usually at very high prices. Vinyl, moving coil cartridges, 8W SET tube amps, very expensive car speakers masquerading as "full-range" speakers...

Then there are the purely psychosomatic effects of fancy wires and parts. Peter Belt is the logical extension of all of this. :-)