"The EggKing" wrote in message
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Stewart's last post made me think (extraordinary as that sounds); Does the
fact that a Vinyl single spins quicker mean the sound is more defined? As
you're covering more distance with the same amount of information you can
get better definition, i.e.. your higher frequencies appear longer on the
faster spinning record and are therefore easier to pick up.

Does this make sense and is it true?
Cheers
Steve


Yes, it's a 'resolution' thing due to a higher 'bitrate' of information
passing the pickup. Tim De Paravicini has made some interesting comments on
this.

I'm not too up on the technicalities myself but I have a number of 12 inch
45s and I can say from personal experience they sound better in terms of
'space' and 'airiness' and have a more 'aggressive' bassline than 33.33 LPs
by a small, but noticeable margin.

It is interesting that 15 minutes of music can be got on one side of a 12
inch 45 and I have often wondered why the two speeds didn't evolve into a
'best of both worlds' compromise at summat like 40 rpm....??