"Rob" wrote in message
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On 08/01/2010 08:56, David Looser wrote:
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Absolutely, well put - so what I'm talking about is a coincidental, and
not causal, artefact. No idea what it is, why it should be there or what
makes it 'real'.

So you like distortion, OK if that's your preference so be it.

Just makes the music sound better.


To you maybe, to me the distortions generated by vinyl recording makes
the
music sound worse.


Well, you'd say distortions, I'd say characteristics. It might be just the
distortions/associated harmonics, don't know. All I do know is that, so
far as I can tell, the music quality doesn't necessarily improve when said
distortions are taken away.

So: master tape explanations aside, I don't know why LPs sound better in
some circumstances.

When I first heard CD I was struck by just how much better it sounded than
anything I had ever heard from LPs. Apart from the welcome loss of
"snap,crackle and pop" the high frequencies were free of that 'strained'
quality that LPs always have. The improvement was, IMHO, every bit as
significant as the improvement in going from 78s to LPs had been.

So when people claim that LPs *ever* "sound better" I am at a complete loss
to understand where they are coming from.

David.