Nousaine wrote:
"Harry Lavo" wrote:
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"Nousaine" wrote in message
I have been adjusting and optimizing turntables, arms, and cartridges since
the late '60's. It is hard work and requires knowledge. If you feel that
CD's are superior to LP's because you don't have to do this work, or your
comparison is to a conventional LP player with no particular attention to
optimization, or the best cartridge your machine ever had was a Shure V15,
or you've never had a low-output MC in your system, you are welcome to the
opinion that CD's are better at reproduction of music.
For Pete's sake; you are assuming that I've not been-there and done-that, which
is exactly why I no longer borther with vinyl. I have owned several Shure V15s;
and yes the best cartridge I ever owned was the last one. And yes I've owned MC
cartridges None of them could hold a candle to the V15.
This attitude is the last stronghold of the high-end apologist saying is
essence that I don't share your opinions because I haven't done the work, lack
the expertise and/or haven't owned the right equipment.
It's also amusing in that one of the objections to controlled comparison
that occasionally arises from the 'subjectivist' side is that, it's too
much work to 'optimize' one.
But before you
conclude that this is "intrinsic" you must be willing to optimize LP;
otherwise you are simply fooling yourself (and also robbing yourself of much
fine music).
I've always been willing to optimize my systems. But I am only willing tune an
obsolete technology so much before simply replacing it with a better one. For
what it's worth I've either acquired a re-issue or have an archived cd-r copy
of any programming I owned on lp that I considered important. My biggest
recording problem is that I have too many of them.
Couple the financial, time and effort investment that comes with 'optimizing'
the LP experience, with the circle-the-wagons threat that digital represents,
and I think much of 'vinylphilia' is explained. That, and the cool
album cover art. ;
--
-S.
"We started to see evidence of the professional groupie in the early 80's.
Alarmingly, these girls bore a striking resemblance to Motley Crue." --
David Lee Roth