In Reply to: RE: Certainly SACD is better - if it's not, something is seriously wrong! [nt] ;-) posted by jazz1 on June 24, 2012 at 23:33:29:
*****They have a quality that SACD does not have, the sound seems more colorful.****
*colorful* may be the operative description.
Above, I referred to vinyl as being a "tunable". By that I mean that the sound is easily manipulated, far more so that a SACD player/transport. The sound of any given rig can be changed/alter in a clearly audible way. I've done it. It's easy to do. Just change to cartridge. Or change cartridge loading from 100 ohms to 1000 ohms, for example. Or change the phono line stage, or switch out the step up transformer, or add a step up transformer, replace a Chinese tube type, with a different Russian tube type, switch from a Denon DL103 to a Koetsu Black, etc. Due to the almost endless input choices available to vinyl devotees in shaping the sound that he or she wants for their specific rigs, in my opinion, vinyl an extremely poor reference standard except, perhaps, to the format itself.
You are a disciple of "tonal accuracy"; not a hall mark of vinyl.
Robert C. Lang
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Follow Ups
- *colorful* may be the operative description - Robert C. Lang 11:54:12 06/25/12 (4)
- RE: *colorful* may be the operative description - jazz1 13:32:34 06/25/12 (3)
- Agreed. Tubes and vinyl sorts go together.... to make for *extra realism* - Robert C. Lang 15:39:04 06/25/12 (2)
- In the JI system, tubes and SACD go together too NT - Jazz Inmate 06:53:13 06/26/12 (1)
- no "real" relationship between vinyl's quality & tubes ... - TBone 14:43:18 06/28/12 (0)