Sorry Winsor, that's just wrong. Not to start a flame event, but you're
comparing a badly produced and/or manufactured LP to a (perhaps) average (by
today's standards) or excellently made CD. So what? Analogue addicts (yes
there is a list of such a name) admit the limitations of the LP and also admit
that higher rez digital formats (eg, SACD) are FINALLY catching up to LPs. Not
that I am an expert on SACD and DVD-A, but it's taken what, 20 years or so?
Analogue is analogue, digital is digital. Both have strengths and weaknesses.
To say that preference for analogue is "mental" in the way I suspect you meant
it, is a bit ungracious. The listening experience is ALWAYS mental... an
experience in the brain of the physical phenomenon detected by the ear and
transmitted through the neural system. Similar with seeing.
Earl
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On 6/17/2004 at 9:03 AM Winsor Crosby wrote:
>I used to chalk it up to hearing as well. But when I have, even on
>superb equipment, pointed out the clicks, pops, cutter rumble recorded
>on the LP, wow from off center holes, rolled off bass not equalized by
>RIAA curves, a groove that is distorted a little more each time you
>play it, and a shallow noise floor, most "analog is better types" admit
>hearing them, but insist that it still sounds better. I have concluded
>it not hearing ability. It is mental. :-)
>
>
>
>Winsor
>Long Beach, California
>USA
>On Jun 17, 2004, at 8:48 AM, Walt Wayman wrote:
>
>> But, oh, they sound so much better. An LP played with a good
>> cartridge and tone arm on a proper turntable, not some piece of crap
>> from Circuit City or Best Buy for $200, is still today, 20 years after
>> we were told we were getting "perfect sound forever," obviously, to
>> any but the hearing impaired, superior to a CD. And if the amp and
>> pre-amp give off both the aural and visual glow of tubes, so much the
>> better. I've got lots of CDs, but I still buy vinyl when I can find
>> it.
>
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