I had some superb LP equipment. If I never hear another LP in my life,
that will be too soon..

I hate LPs!

Compression. Inner-groove distortion. Pops. Ticks. Rumble. Wow.
Flutter.

Good riddance!

Jenn wrote:
So, after a week of living with the Clearaudio TT/arm/cartridge, I love
it more and more. The sound that I am getting from my records is just
so effortless and easy... like a good concert hall. I just put on
several CDs, and I just don't get that with them. The timbres are
thinner and less life-like. I wish that it were the other way around,
but it's not. If this is due to "euphonic distortion", bring on more of
it!

In article ,
wrote:

Jenn wrote:
So, after a week of living with the Clearaudio TT/arm/cartridge, I love
it more and more. The sound that I am getting from my records is just
so effortless and easy... like a good concert hall. I just put on
several CDs, and I just don't get that with them. The timbres are
thinner and less life-like. I wish that it were the other way around,
but it's not. If this is due to "euphonic distortion", bring on more of
it!

I had some superb LP equipment. If I never hear another LP in my life,
that will be too soon..

I hate LPs!

Compression. Inner-groove distortion. Pops. Ticks. Rumble. Wow.
Flutter.

Good riddance!

If it weren't for the number of recordings available only on CD (the
vast majority, of course), and the fact that they play in the car, I
would pretty much say "good riddance" to CDs. The screechy violins.
The lifeless voices. The Bach trumpets that sound like Getzens. Yuck.

"Jenn" wrote in message
...
In article ,
wrote:

Jenn wrote:
So, after a week of living with the Clearaudio TT/arm/cartridge, I love
it more and more. The sound that I am getting from my records is just
so effortless and easy... like a good concert hall. I just put on
several CDs, and I just don't get that with them. The timbres are
thinner and less life-like. I wish that it were the other way around,
but it's not. If this is due to "euphonic distortion", bring on more
of
it!

I had some superb LP equipment. If I never hear another LP in my life,
that will be too soon..

I hate LPs!

Compression. Inner-groove distortion. Pops. Ticks. Rumble. Wow.
Flutter.

Good riddance!

If it weren't for the number of recordings available only on CD (the
vast majority, of course), and the fact that they play in the car, I
would pretty much say "good riddance" to CDs. The screechy violins.
The lifeless voices. The Bach trumpets that sound like Getzens. Yuck.

You need to blame the people who played them, the people who mastered them,
the original media they were recorded on, anything you can thinbk of other
than the CD medium itself. It is a simple fact that what you hear on a CD
is what was put there, IOW an accurate representation of the master.

wrote:
"Jenn" wrote in message
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In article ,
wrote:

Jenn wrote:
So, after a week of living with the Clearaudio TT/arm/cartridge, I love
it more and more. The sound that I am getting from my records is just
so effortless and easy... like a good concert hall. I just put on
several CDs, and I just don't get that with them. The timbres are
thinner and less life-like. I wish that it were the other way around,
but it's not. If this is due to "euphonic distortion", bring on more
of
it!

I had some superb LP equipment. If I never hear another LP in my life,
that will be too soon..

I hate LPs!

Compression. Inner-groove distortion. Pops. Ticks. Rumble. Wow.
Flutter.

Good riddance!

If it weren't for the number of recordings available only on CD (the
vast majority, of course), and the fact that they play in the car, I
would pretty much say "good riddance" to CDs. The screechy violins.
The lifeless voices. The Bach trumpets that sound like Getzens. Yuck.

You need to blame the people who played them, the people who mastered them,
the original media they were recorded on, anything you can thinbk of other
than the CD medium itself. It is a simple fact that what you hear on a CD
is what was put there, IOW an accurate representation of the master.



Someone posted an exerpt from a paper in the AESJ about the mastering
and production of the wonderful Mercury Living presence CDs. They did
extensive blind listening tests and concluded that there is indeed a
lot that can go wrong between the output of the mastering engineer and
the playback from a commercial CD. It is not a simple fact that what
you hear on a CD is what they put there in as far as what came out of
the mastering engineer's console.


Scott

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"Jenn" wrote in message
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In article ,
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Jenn wrote:

If it weren't for the number of recordings available only on CD (the
vast majority, of course), and the fact that they play in the car, I
would pretty much say "good riddance" to CDs. The screechy violins.
The lifeless voices. The Bach trumpets that sound like Getzens. Yuck.

You need to blame the people who played them, the people who mastered
them,
the original media they were recorded on, anything you can thinbk of other
than the CD medium itself. It is a simple fact that what you hear on a CD
is what was put there, IOW an accurate representation of the master.

It should/can be an accurate representation of the master, but all too
often it is not. The potential of the CD is greatly abused.

Iain

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"Jenn" wrote in message
...
In article ,
wrote:

Jenn wrote:
So, after a week of living with the Clearaudio TT/arm/cartridge, I love
it more and more. The sound that I am getting from my records is just
so effortless and easy... like a good concert hall. I just put on
several CDs, and I just don't get that with them. The timbres are
thinner and less life-like. I wish that it were the other way around,
but it's not. If this is due to "euphonic distortion", bring on more
of
it!

I had some superb LP equipment. If I never hear another LP in my life,
that will be too soon..

I hate LPs!

Compression. Inner-groove distortion. Pops. Ticks. Rumble. Wow.
Flutter.

Good riddance!

If it weren't for the number of recordings available only on CD (the
vast majority, of course), and the fact that they play in the car, I
would pretty much say "good riddance" to CDs. The screechy violins.
The lifeless voices. The Bach trumpets that sound like Getzens. Yuck.

You need to blame the people who played them, the people who mastered them,
the original media they were recorded on, anything you can thinbk of other
than the CD medium itself.

Smoking doesn't cause cancer. Blame the genetics, blame diet, blame
random chance.. anything you can think of other than the cigarette
itself.

Mike

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I had some superb LP equipment. If I never hear another LP in my life,
that will be too soon..

I hate LPs!

Compression. Inner-groove distortion. Pops. Ticks. Rumble. Wow.
Flutter.

Good riddance!

It sounds as though you have been using a poor
turntable/arm/cartridge, and have not bothered
to take care of your vinyl:-((

Iain

On 27 Oct 2005 02:21:00 GMT, "Iain M Churches"
wrote:

wrote in message
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I had some superb LP equipment. If I never hear another LP in my life,
that will be too soon..

I hate LPs!

Compression. Inner-groove distortion. Pops. Ticks. Rumble. Wow.
Flutter.

Good riddance!

It sounds as though you have been using a poor
turntable/arm/cartridge, and have not bothered
to take care of your vinyl:-((

It sounds as though you are determined to ignore the basic physical
limitations of the medium. You of all people should know better.
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On 27 Oct 2005 02:21:00 GMT, "Iain M Churches"
wrote:


It sounds as though you have been using a poor
turntable/arm/cartridge, and have not bothered
to take care of your vinyl:-((

It sounds as though you are determined to ignore the basic physical
limitations of the medium. You of all people should know better.
--

Many people, like myself, have a turntable because a large number of
definitive recordings have never been released on CD.
Well cared for, and kept in clean condition, vinyl does not have to
sound like a breakfast cereal.

As stated many times before, it is the performance not the medium on
which it is recorded that is important. I get equal enjoyment from CD,
vinyl and 78rpm shellac recordings, and accept the strengths and
weaknesses of each.


Cordially,

Iain