"Patrick Turner" wrote in message

Andre Jute wrote:

Seeing all the posts about RIAA filters, I can only say
I hope none of the participants passed on the gene of
obsessive shortsightedness that draws audiophiles into
the wastelands of RIAA. Vinyl discs are bad enough when
good clean CD's are available, but RIAA is a bodge to
correct another bodge. Two bodges don't make it right.

Andre Jute
uses only CD and so has time for more music

I doubt you really know what you are missing out upon.

But all the really keen musically eclectic ppl i know who
have vast cd collections
indicating a misspent middle age also still enjoy vinyl.
Most find that despite the vast sums they have spent on
cd players and transports, da converters, isolation
platforms and other widgets and gadgets, the humble black
disk continues to delight, and
give a greater sense of connection to the artist than any
CD manages to do.

I have been present at a number of AB comparisons where a
CD version and vinyl version of the same material from
the same grand old master tape
was being played, and we could switch from one to the
other,
and vinyl seemed to have more to offer the audiophile
subjectively.

Mind you, the whole analog recording process onto tape et
all is a huge bodge to.

So is FM stereo mulptiplexing.

Never mind the bodges, the sound does not seem to suffer,
when they do it right, IMHO.

If you can't hear the damage that vinyl and analog tape do, then maybe you
can even personally defend the use of tubes.