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In Reply to: No, you weren't! You just don't understand the purpose for 180-gram vinyl... posted by John Elison on January 29, 2015 at 19:09:51:
"Thicker vinyl has no ability whatsoever to improve the quality of the music cut into the groove. It just reduces the level of reflected vibrations back to the stylus and thereby reduces unwanted additional distortion."
I think I understand your point, but surely the intent of the thicker vinyl and thereby reduced vibration is to enhance the listening experience, to make it more pleasant (which is what I was trying to say). Otherwise, why bother? I just haven't found this to be true in my own experience. True, i haven't run any double blind studies with different vinyl thicknesses, but I truly doubt most of us would be able to tell the difference, or even if we could, whether it really improved the listening experience.
I don't have a vacuum hold-down on my table but I have little confidence that it would make much difference to my ears, anyway. For some, perhaps, it does.
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- RE: No, you weren't! You just don't understand the purpose for 180-gram vinyl... - ecl876 04:54:22 01/30/15 (0)