Thanks for your kind offer. I will be in Houston Nov 2nd to watch the Texans play the Broncos. Unfortunately it will be an in and out one day trip. That's pretty much my motto for visits to Houston. If I ever do an extended stay, I will let you know.
Excellent sounding LPs
To follow up on my post about “ Playable LPs” is a question I was really trying to get at. I used the wrong term in “Playable.” What I’m really trying to ascertain is what percentage of LPs sound really good on your system? I have 2000-3000 LPs but they vary widely in SQ. I’m sure you would agree 90% is not the case.
So, to rephrase my question, what percentage of your records are near or at audiophile quality?
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I do remember the era when there were many reissues of rock, and some jazz from the ‘60s and 70’s that simply sounded terrible in comparison to the originals. I think that was the 80s maybe early 90s. I don’t remember for sure but they just were terrible. I’d get home finding a brand new unopened copy of some thing and I put them in turntable. It would just sound terrible. Very depressing. I think I tossed most of them. They were so bad. |
yup, also the "greatest hits" albums from around the same time. There was no control over the master used for the Vinyl, so, they could be using a dup of a dup of a dup, etc.... Dynamic range suffered..... On a positive note, it is really cool how the audiophiles have banded together on the Hoffman and Discogs forums to sift through all the forensics of most of this vintage rock vinyl. |
@rvpiano I cant imagine having thousands of lps. Like many others, I turned to cds in '80s, '90s, '00s. TT rarely used during " kids in the house days". For good reason. After empty nest full rig came back out, made some nice upgrades and back into lps, but very picky about quality. AP, MoFi definately the best. Of about 150 lps Id say about 12% are great, 20 -30% pretty good. The rest I can tolerate after a few drinks. @baylinor my wife use to work for a local entertianment magazine and got free promo lps, free concert tickets, backstage passes, fun days. I was the tag along schmuck bf, but they liked talking to my cute 20 something gf :). I cant say Promo lps sound much better. Definately not as good as AP, MoFi. Im surprised thier not 180 or more gram as they were intended for rough use by radio DJs.
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