Why vinyl


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Here in 8 minutes the reasons why some keep turntable and others ditch them :

One Groove. Two Channels. Vinyl Under an Electron Microscope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4yPl2ZP_GE

 

 I will only add that digital control of high level dynamics exist and  speaker/room acoustics matter more than  good Turntable/ good dac choice ...

We had a choice and any choice imply a trade-off ...

 

To me....if music is record in analogue and then goes digital...it cant be better, maybe as good..maybe,...different ...maybe but better...not possible.

@superhonestben 

To me....if music is record in analogue and then goes digital...it cant be better, maybe as good..maybe,...different ...maybe but better...not possible.

This is not necessarily true.

Firstly, it depends on the mastering. Digital mastering can be excellent.

Secondly, converting the signal from vinyl to digital at phono stage can avoid all sorts of noise and distortion in RIAA equalistion, interconnects, preamp and crossovers. Also, permits taming of room bass resonances through digital signal processing

 

I’m 74 years old and I’ve been a hifi guy since my teens.  I’ve had lots of equipment over the years starting obviously with vinyl.  I still have my 50 year old IMF transmission line speakers, both the TLS50’s and the Professional Monitor MKIII’s. Rebuilt the crossovers over the many years with exact replacement capacitors from the UK for identical sonic results that I recall when new.  My point is the many remastered albums that I stream on Qubuz remixed by Steve Wilson in particular sound SO much better than I ever remember my records sounding.  I mean I had good turntables and cartridges for the day.  Thorens, Dual, Empire. And Stanton, Grado, Shure cartridges.  Must I spend thousands of dollars on vinyl equipment to approach the sound that I currently stream??

My current electronics consist of Marantz SACD 30N and the Model 30 integrated