In Reply to: Subjective claims cannot really be proven... posted by oscar on April 6, 2003 at 20:45:36:
>> You've probably already decided LP and tubes are very good despite sometimes atrocious "scientific" "measurements". Your ears are probably telling you something is "right" about LP and tubes, why not SACD ?<<Scientific measurements of LPs confirm to me what I already knew I didn’t like about them, including: noise, compression and horrendously uneven frequency response. Not to mention resonance artefacts.
Dalton eloquently wrote a while back:-
"The idea that vinyl sounds "better" is ludicrous. At best we could agree that, for some people (I call them "kooks"), vinyl colors the music in a more pleasing or soothing way (although a less natural way). If a photographer and an Impressionist painter portrayed the very same subject and you had to choose which work you liked best, you might prefer the painting. But the photograph is more accurate. Notice I wrote "photograph", not "phonograph". Vinyl lovers usually refer to the unnatural coloration inherent in vinyl playback as "ease" and "liquidity". They might as well be referring to a painter's brush stroke."
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Follow Ups
- Re: Subjective claims cannot really be proven... - Martin says 02:31:32 04/07/03 (12)
- eloquent and absurd - tunenut 10:58:24 04/07/03 (3)
- Eloquent and succinct . . . - Martin says 03:13:08 04/08/03 (1)
- yes I know.. - tunenut 09:36:49 04/08/03 (0)
- agreed go to a live acoustic concert, come home listen to an Audiophile LP on a decent Vinyl rig - Teresa 18:29:57 04/07/03 (0)
- So why does soundstage collapse on CD ? - SnaggS 06:54:04 04/07/03 (6)
- Not really... - MCH 08:40:58 04/07/03 (4)
- Soundstaging -- speakers & CD source . . . - Martin says 02:36:09 04/08/03 (0)
- MCH, if I may ask...what are those great speakers? (nt) - Eric LeRouge 10:49:26 04/07/03 (2)
- Re: MCH, if I may ask...what are those great speakers? (nt) - MCH 22:46:11 04/08/03 (1)
- Cool (nt) - Eric LeRouge 12:03:46 04/09/03 (0)
- No "debunk" I'm afraid . . . . . - Martin says 07:35:29 04/07/03 (0)
- Cool quote (nt) - Eric LeRouge 02:43:18 04/07/03 (0)