billpete
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| Favorite Beatles Song @mofimadness +1 for Norwegian Wood | |
| Is my new amp TOO GOOD? I think you need to break the new gear and tubes in before you can get a proper evaluation. You might hear improvement by 50 hours or so, some things take longer to break in. As others say, too good is not a likely scenario. A great amp can only h... | |
| Notice That There Are Not Many Survivors of the MC from the early 19080's or so? @mahler123 MC in 1908, my grandfather had one on his Victrola, got it straight from Thomas Edison...........I think. | |
| Notice That There Are Not Many Survivors of the MC from the early 19080's or so? @rauliruegas Just wondering why the sapphire or ruby cantilevers are bad. The Grace F9e ruby is a pretty highly regarded cartridge in most circles and is one of the better MM cartridges that I have heard. A buddy of mine had a couple of them and I... | |
| Notice That There Are Not Many Survivors of the MC from the early 19080's or so? Nearly all of my cartridges are vintage, LOMC, HOMC and MM. I have many of what get mentioned here and some that are not. Still have two Shure V15, a III and a IV, one original stylus and one Jico. I recently picked up two Empire 4000 cartridges a... | |
| Vinyl vs Streaming @elliottbnewcombjr As to the pop ups, why is it this site that is so inundated with them? I have them anywhere that I search but they are always off to the side. Here, they sometimes completely block what I'm trying to read or write. I don't under... | |
| Vinyl vs Streaming @newton_john I have done the exact same thing with HDCD, pored over discogs etc. They seem to be hard to find and were never terribly common. Like you, I have found quite a few that were not even labeled as HDCD but the player recognizes them as s... | |
| Vinyl vs Streaming @ghdprentice Thanks for the generous offer to hear your system. If I ever make it back out to the west coast, I'll do my best to look you up. I really only hear my own gear anymore since I retired to rural MO. For the most part, I'm OK with that. ... | |
| Vinyl vs Streaming @ghdprentice I think it must be more complicated than the explanations that we have. 16/44 RBCD playback is not without flaws. Again, some is much better than others so we are up against "quality recording" vs garbage in all media as both exist in... | |
| Vinyl vs Streaming @ghdprentice I agree with you............mostly. I do think that the very most important piece is the recording itself. If it is the absolute best that it can be in analog and in digital, which one is actually superior? You have a great deal inves... | |
| Vinyl vs Streaming @mulveling I agree with you but I can only speak from what I hear with my own system. I have no other reference as I don't live anywhere near an audio salon of any kind and I don't know one single person in my area who owns any kind of stereo syst... | |
| Vinyl vs Streaming So............if digital has surpassed analog, at what point did it occur? Is there a numerical value that can be put on the best analog recordings (like master tapes or D2D recordings) that would illustrate where it compares to digital like 24/96... | |
| Vinyl vs Streaming @larsman I was only an amateur photographer but I had some high end stuff from Nikon, Nikkormat in both 35mm and digital. I also had darkroom gear and so did some of my buddies. Lots of work there. Digital photography sure made that a simple proce... | |
| Vinyl vs Streaming @mulveling Says it best if you ask me. As to digital and streaming ever being the equal to quality analog recording, maybe it will at some point or maybe it has in some instances. In my own system, the closest that I have found to vinyl or tape,... | |
| How old were you when audio gear first caught your interest? Born in 1952, started playing my own records (Disney, Huck Finn etc.) by age 6 or so. Had a portable record player, started playing dad's classical records on his console system by age 7 or so. I remember changing metal needles and putting coins o... |