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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve F. View Post
    Those speed bumps are HELL on proper tracking.....


    Yeah, I go for portability & convenience of depth & separation these days.
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    In order to hear this depth, separation and warmth of vinyl presumably I need a decent turntable, decent amp & speakers, and a good room to listen to it in?
    That, and the fantasist's belief that vinyl has magical properties.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bondegezou View Post
    That, and the fantasist's belief that vinyl has magical properties.

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    I always assumed it was a needle bouncing on a piece of plastic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bondegezou View Post
    That, and the fantasist's belief that vinyl has magical properties.

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    It does, for protecting furniture.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad View Post
    I always assumed it was a needle bouncing on a piece of plastic.
    And that's why you can't hear the special depth, separation and warmth of vinyl that others can. You don't believe enough.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bondegezou View Post
    That, and the fantasist's belief that vinyl has magical properties.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bondegezou View Post
    And that's why you can't hear the special depth, separation and warmth of vinyl that others can. You don't believe enough.

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    Oh, so that's how you prefer to approach the vinyl vs. CD discussion. I see.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aith01 View Post
    Oh, so that's how you prefer to approach the vinyl vs. CD discussion. I see.
    Except now, it's a vinyl vs CD vs multiple qualities of download discussion. Personally, I think that it is more to do with the quality of both the recording and your sound system, more than anything else.

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    I personally know some genuine hard-core audiophiles with a five digits-worth equipment and custom listening rooms, and they never debate the formats. For them a properly mastered CD, quality vinyl or uncompressed file offer negligible superiority over one another, because the real bang is in their top-shelf hardware.

    I was once invited to a listening session and really could not tell a difference between one and another, perhaps because the sound quality was unbelievably good in either case. They played me Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition (ECM) from CD and vinyl, and I could hear the timbre of each drum, a slight vibration of bass strings, as if I had been in studio with the band. According to them the format wars are for the folks who cannot afford real top gear, so they compare inferior components (or lousy masterings) mistaking their limitations for the (imaginary) deficiencies of a given medium.

    I am totally out of my depth with those guys, theoretically and financially, so I merely focus on different masterings/mixes (if available) to find an optimal sound on my basic set-up, once upon a time adding or replacing one budget component with another. CDs sound just fine enough to me as vinyl would have done if I collected it instead.
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    Quote Originally Posted by boilk View Post
    Except now, it's a vinyl vs CD vs multiple qualities of download discussion. Personally, I think that it is more to do with the quality of both the recording and your sound system, more than anything else.

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    I tend to agree with that. Vinyl offers things that CDs don't, and vice versa. I use both.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad View Post


    Yeah, I go for portability & convenience of depth & separation these days.
    I too have no real stereo anymore and I'm constantly mobile as well... so phone is my big listening station - or my desk at work on my PC. I appreciate digital accessibility bigtime - vinyl went away for me long ago - sold it all. No room either. Bandcamp has been amazing for me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve F. View Post
    Those speed bumps are HELL on proper tracking.....
    I had a similar experience out at sea on an Aircraft Carrier. The tone arm skating back and forth was something we simply had to get used to.
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    RED ALERT!! WE HAVE A DOWNLOAD-ONLY SITUATION INVOLVING A NEW EP FROM THANK YOU SCIENTIST.
    SEND OUT THE DOWNLOAD-ONLY PUNISHMENT SQUAD! MISCREANTS ARE CHARGED WITH NOT PROVIDING ADEQUATE WARMTH AND SOUNDSTAGE.

    https://thankyouscientist.bandcamp.c...oom-studios-ep

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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    RED ALERT!! WE HAVE A DOWNLOAD-ONLY SITUATION INVOLVING A NEW EP FROM THANK YOU SCIENTIST.
    SEND OUT THE DOWNLOAD-ONLY PUNISHMENT SQUAD! MISCREANTS ARE CHARGED WITH NOT PROVIDING ADEQUATE WARMTH AND SOUNDSTAGE.

    https://thankyouscientist.bandcamp.c...oom-studios-ep
    Ok... this cracked me up. Ha.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    RED ALERT!! WE HAVE A DOWNLOAD-ONLY SITUATION INVOLVING A NEW EP FROM THANK YOU SCIENTIST.
    SEND OUT THE DOWNLOAD-ONLY PUNISHMENT SQUAD! MISCREANTS ARE CHARGED WITH NOT PROVIDING ADEQUATE WARMTH AND SOUNDSTAGE.
    It's too bad it's come to this but the horrible trend needed to be reversed.

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    If a release is download-only, then what are you supposed to fondle?

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    Quote Originally Posted by aith01 View Post
    If a release is download-only, then what are you supposed to fondle?
    The Bandcamp app.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aith01 View Post
    If a release is download-only, then what are you supposed to fondle?
    Improvise
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    Quote Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad View Post
    In order to hear this depth, separation and warmth of vinyl presumably I need a decent turntable, decent amp & speakers, and a good room to listen to it in? Most of my listening is in the office or car using an ipod.
    Indeed you do. And of course LPs that use a digital source do not exhibit the advantages that vinyl does have.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bondegezou View Post
    That, and the fantasist's belief that vinyl has magical properties.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bondegezou View Post
    And that's why you can't hear the special depth, separation and warmth of vinyl that others can. You don't believe enough.

    Henry
    It's sad that some people take it personally and are offended when others take a different POV than they do. Taking a personal shot makes you look small, Henry.

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    I always thought reel to reels sounded best. Do people still listen to that format or is that really a thing of the past?

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    Improvise
    My question was mostly for Jed (and only a joke really).

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    Haven’t you ever heard of Air Fondling?

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    Haven’t you ever heard of Air Fondling?
    Now I have!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Progdreamer View Post
    I always thought reel to reels sounded best. Do people still listen to that format or is that really a thing of the past?
    Open reel never really caught on because it was a pain to use. One had to manually thread the tape through one's machine, like the AV geeks in school everyone made fun of. Cassettes were preferred due to their ease of use, despite their inferior sound quality. Similarly, VHS won over the far superior Betamax because people were too lazy to change tapes midway through a movie.

    BTW: in school, I thought I was a real bad ass running film projectors. I was oblivious to how geeky it actually was.
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