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Back in my audiophile days, moving-coil cartridges and carbon-less (white) vinyl were the big things. I had an incredibly heavy Yamaha direct-drive turntable, and weights to clamp the record's center and edge to the turntable. These were used to damp the record, and remove the edge warp.
Had a beautiful set of Stax electrostatic headphones.
Spent a while buying direct-to-disk recordings, too. These skipped some of the many steps from initial cutting of the master disk, to the hundreds of child masters needed to mold thousands of records.
When the first CD's came out, audio engineers recorded the high freq's too loud, and gave CD's a reputation that still exists, that CD's sound crap. I took the time to find great recordings, and was slapped hard upside the head with how incredibly good CD's are.
I can understand why some people prefer the even-harmonic distortion that tube amps deliver.
I will never understand why anyone would enjoy vinyl. It certainly, absolutely is not because they sound better. (I'm assuming the recording studio engineers are competent to record properly for CD's. That might be too much to expect. Hmm, need to talk to my nephew. He's doing this down in Nashville...)
Had a beautiful set of Stax electrostatic headphones.
Spent a while buying direct-to-disk recordings, too. These skipped some of the many steps from initial cutting of the master disk, to the hundreds of child masters needed to mold thousands of records.
When the first CD's came out, audio engineers recorded the high freq's too loud, and gave CD's a reputation that still exists, that CD's sound crap. I took the time to find great recordings, and was slapped hard upside the head with how incredibly good CD's are.
I can understand why some people prefer the even-harmonic distortion that tube amps deliver.
I will never understand why anyone would enjoy vinyl. It certainly, absolutely is not because they sound better. (I'm assuming the recording studio engineers are competent to record properly for CD's. That might be too much to expect. Hmm, need to talk to my nephew. He's doing this down in Nashville...)