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Analogue v. Digital...again (Washington Post)

This is an interesting article and it features a couple of A vs. D recordings so you can try to tell the difference. Michael Fremer had a brief remark in the "comments" section. Hopefully, this Washington Post link for non-subscribers works:

 

kacomess
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kijanki
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May be an image of text that says 'জিক PEON "We all listen to music on vinyl these days, Dad. It'sa format you re probably too old to be familiar with."'

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atmasphere
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The article is actually about Tom Port of Better Records, quite frankly he comes off as an off-putting nutcase. And he can’t help himself from trashing respectable companies like Analogue Productions. So he uses the following gear to listen to $7 common records and anoint a portion of them as $500 "super hot stampers":

  • Dynavector Karat
  • Triplanar arm
  • VPI Aries
  • Legacy Focus 20/20 Speakers

That’s a pretty damn good return on his circa-2000 gear investment.

The Triplanar is still one of the best tonearms money can buy. What is so year 2000 about that? The Triplanar has improved since 20 years ago FWIW...

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mulveling
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Sorry guys, you’re right I inadvertently shorted that article (now it’s behind the paywall) - my bad. And I know Triplanar is by all accounts a great arm that’s been continually updated - but from the system pics it didn’t look like Tom has been keeping up with the "latest and greatest" for a while (e.g. the VPI and Legacy).

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