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Old July 23rd 03, 08:29 AM posted to uk.rec.audio
MrBitsy
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Default Valve superiority over solid state - read this (Lynn Olsen)


"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Julian Fowler" wrote in message


* the LPs of 40 years ago were made on using technology that can only
be considered crude by today's standards, and they were made to be
played using equipment that, in most cases, would be put to shame by a
contemporary no-name mini system (I still recall my father's delight
at having his Decca record player retrofitted w/ a stereo cartridge,
one channel of which went through the original amp and (built-in)
speaker, the other to a matching box w/ a second amp and speaker). If
40 year old recordings sound poor on modern equipment, maybe that's
because the latter does all too good a job of revealing the
inadequacies of the former.


Amen, brother.


Rubbish. I have a 25 year old deck going through a Roksan Kandy Mk3 amp and
Quad 11L speakers. On certain recording its sounds better to me than my CD
player. Of course, certain CD recording sound better to me than the vinyl.

MrBitsy.