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In Reply to: Why not Jump ship all the way to LP, way more titles than any other format and the best sound too. posted by Teresa on April 15, 2003 at 21:42:48:
I still heard surface noise; I thought a good TT would lose the surface noise, guess not... maybe a worn record (Duke Ellington's "Blues in Orbit") ...Otherwise, it sounded more relaxing ("better"?) and better soundstaging than it's SACD counterpart (which in turn sounds more relaxing than 24/96 PCM).
It's the TLC which mostly keeps me from getting serious about vinyl. Maybe listening to a decent analog rig with more (and mint condition?) LPs might get me interested.
Follow Ups:
Teresa will sell you her rig after she makes the umpteenth change to the "best format". Who knows what it will be. If we're really lucky the "best format" will be the sound of her head as it bangs against the padded room she is locked up in. :')
(nt)
Cheers,
Paul.
It will always be there, even on a $65,000 turntable. The better records are surprisingly quiet when new, but even some new records have noise. And then the bad part about LPs is that they degenerate slightly on every play- a record that has been played 50 times is not going to sound like a new record. Noise accumulates. I don't know why that doesn't really bother me. It is uncorrelated noise, so it is like having an air conditioner going in the background or traffic noise outside. It is, for me, easily ignorable. Nobody loves surface noise or the inherent fragility of analog. But, for what it can do, still beyond what I have heard any digital do, I put up with those things.
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