I'm an audiophool. I own about a thousand LPs and play them on a VPI MK 19 turntable with an Audioquest PT-5 tonearm and a Sumiko Bluepoint #2 HOMC cartridge. I've had the TT and arm for about 20yrs. I'm thinking about buying my last TT, probably another VPI. Classic this time.
BTW, those of you who listen to MP3, streaming radio etc are listening to music that has had the life sucked out of it through compression. That's probably the reason may young people are turning to vinyl
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Last year I took my dad's collection out of storage and set up the entire thing. It's been nice to buy and listen to records. It isn't always easy to put on a record, sometimes you just have to use your iPod. However, records just sound so much better. I've also been listening to FLAC files through my computer and those sound just as good.
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Lady was giving away their record collection on CL today. Box sets, single 33's, it was totally awesome. Mostly Big Band and Christmas carols, but also Isaac Hayes and Zeppelin II. I think I now own everything Jim Nabors ever did. Ever. Quite the eclectic collection.
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Ha! If I had to choose whether to listen to Jim Nabors on vinyl, or mp3 or cd, or whatever...I think I'd choose braille.
Well, most of today's "music", if you can call it that still, has no soul or life to begin with. It all sounds very similar, bands sound the same with no individuality and seem to be mass produced. My opinion of course. And people still buy it and listen to it.
I've recently bought some high end audio gear and headphones. I used to use on-board sound and a pair of Senn HD 212 Pros, but have upgraded nicely. Now I have a Xonar DX soundcard, going to a Maverick Tubemagic A1 headphone amp, and listening through some Beyerdynamic DDT 880s, the 600 ohm version. So far I am liking a vacuum tube amp, kinda got the upgrade bug now. Might see about getting some other gear after a bit to test. I am also migrating my music collection, from what has mostly been 320 Kbs MP3s for the last several years, to FLAC. Figure it's time to go lossless. Switching all my PMP to those that support FLAC. Now the only thing I'll have to use MP3s on is the in the car.....for the time being. Hell, I might even just get a PMP to keep in there and listen from it instead of a thumb drive.
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Well, I hate to say it but, the only difference I've ever noticed between vinyl and CD's is a lack of hissing, popping and scratchy noises on the CD's. As far as the actual sound itself goes, to me there's no difference. But that could just be my ears.
My hearing is a little damaged from years of hunting and shooting without hearing protection (I wear it now at the range all the time), working with sheetmetal (Commercial HVAC installations) and working with a live band for a year or two. So it could just be that my hearing is not so good and was already problematic buy the time CD's started coming out.
I'm the same with the whole DVD vs BlueRay thing too. I have both players and have watched both and see no differece between the two formats so I buy DVD's as they're usually around $10 or more less than BR discs. In fact, I once loaded the exact same movie into both and switched between the two and I couldn't see a difference. Not like the difference you see between a HD channel and a non-HD channel on TV. As for the sound on BR....same thing as music...........my ears don't hear any difference.
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Paul Anka albums make me feel like a real man.
There's two plausible reasons why you can't hear the difference and your hearing probably isn't one of them. I suspect my hearing is worse than yours, but one's brain has the ability to fill in the blanks. Reason one is, you probably don't know what to listen for and reason two is your system may not be resolving enough. Learning what to listen for takes time and a certain amount of experience, not unlike developing one's cigar palette. Resolving systems cost lot's of money. You may not be willing to spend $10,000 and much more to hear the difference.
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I don't even own a sound stereo system. My home theater system has an iPod docking station but it's a home theater system, not a high end stereo. I've never had a chance to actually do a side-by-side comparison of digital vs analog which I think would make a difference. I've never owned a decent stereo and whenever I've been around one that had both sources, it never actually occured to me to try both and compare.
You're likely right, I suspect I just don't know what to listen for. If I get a chance again to compare the two I'll take it and give it a listen and see if I can spot any difference between the two.
Well, a couple years back the wife and I invested in a top of the line Sony Bravia TV with a Sony Home Theater system. Shortly after buying that, we invested in a Sony BlueRay. So I'm pretty sure the issue isn't the system. Chances are my eyes, like my ears.........just ain't what they used to be...........LOL
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
***William Ernest Henley***
Then I'd suggest therapy. True story - when I was younger, my parents had to set boundaries for how far I could ride my bike. Feeling my oats, I rode one day to a local record store, to see if I could pick up some records of some albums I wanted to hear. The albums were more than I had, but with wanting a souvenir from my trek, I bought a couple of cheapie albums - one of them, a Paul Anka album.
As punishment for not obeying my boundaries, I had to listen to the album exclusively for an entire week.
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The audio - I can understand, it's night and day to me, but I can understand not being able to tell the difference.
The video - I got nothing. BluRay is just so over the top sharp - but this might also depend on other factors - like the movie you're watching, and the audio/video setup. Even though I can tell the difference, we still buy DVD's, as video quality isn't nearly as important to me as audio quality.
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