"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.

"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.

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:29:42 +0100, "MrBitsy"
wrote:


"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
...
"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.

(I should have added to my original note that modern reproduction
equipment can also reveal how appallingly some recordings have been
mastered for CD!)

Amen, brother.


Rubbish.

What specifically is "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.

I think that we're actually agreeing he firstly that there's no
point in generalizing, secondly that recordings from the pre-digital
era may well sound better on analogue equipment. After all, n
original 7" of Martha Reeves and the Vandellas "Dancin' In The
Streets" sounds better on a mid-60s Dansette cranked to the limit :-)

Julian

--
Julian Fowler
julian (at) bellevue-barn (dot) org (dot) uk

"MrBitsy" wrote


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.



For the record Ray, your '25 year old deck' was *twice* the price of a Linn
Sondek at the time......

;-)