"ruffrecords" wrote in message


I don't want to repeat the entire argument but this guy lives in Miami
and claims to have a $73,000 turtable and similarly expensive other
components.

More money than brains...

Despite that, he argues that any vinyl based system in
the $5K to $10K range will 'blow away' any CD system of any kind and
that the differences will be so noticeable as to be obvious.

The difference will be obvious. For reference purposes, the vinyl system is
the one with tics, pops, and other forms of audible noise and distortion.
The good CD system is the one that provides an audibly perfect replica of
the signal that was recorded.

As to 'better' as you might expect this has been debated at length.

Some people are addicted to the audible noise and distortion that is
inherent in the vinyl format.

In summary it comes down to instruments sounding more like the real
thing, and of course he claims extensive and regular exposure to what
the real thing sounds like.

That's why 99% sales of new recordings are CDs, not LPs. They sound less
like music than LPs.

He further claims that tremendous technological advances have been
made in vinyl reproduction technology in the last 30 years so mit now
sounds better than any of us old lags would have remembered hearing
back in its heyday in the 70's.

Actually, very little has changed. The last major technological change in
vinyl production was Direct Metal Mastering, and by most accounts, it was
not an unqualified improvement. The last major technological change in vinyl
playback was either laser tracking or digital denoising, and by most
accounts they are not unqualified improvements, either.

Oh, and by the way, you can only achieve this incredible level of
quality by playing one of a few direct to disk records still in
circulation and of which any really decent hi-fi shop will have a few.

Direct-to-disk was an improvement because it eliminated the tape
record/playback cycle which is in fact not sonically transparent. However,
digital recording and production can provide identical benefits and greatly
ease the production process.