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In Reply to: Fiance disapproves of my vinyl addition - need help posted by kgturner on October 29, 2004 at 17:26:27:
A couple things:
First, let's look at a couple of things on your music list that were most likely recorded in analog, and could be possibly found in vinyl, with perhaps an all analog signal path:ministry: while maybe digitized at some point, I think that some earlier stuff was recorded analog
pj harvey: I know at least "Rid of Me" was recorded by Steve Albini, all analog.
albert king: of course recorded all analog, and you could buy original analog pressings, and I think there is an all anolog audiophile reissue or two around.
stevie ray vaughan; while there is a chance some of his stuff may have been recorded in digital format, since he did most of his recording in the 80s, there is a chance it is analog.
edvard grieg (classical) since he died in 1907, there is chance that you could find recordings of his work by performers during the golden age of analog.
a hodge podge of other piano based classical music as well: come on, you can get stuff from the 50s and 60s that, of course, is all analog.
Now, here is another take on things. I used to be of the school that "if it was digital, you might as well just buy the cd." Some other folks have claimed that "something special" happens when you transfer something to vinyl, even if it starts out digital. While I use to poo-poo this notion, I have come to find (as I have upgraded my gear over time) that this can be true, IF proper care was taken into mastering for vinyl. Hey, while some of the later Radiohead stuff may have been recorded to analog (like "Hail to the Theif", a lot of that recorded at Oceanway), there albums are so obviously Protoolzed. Yet the vinyl versions I have sound more enjoyable to me than the cd versions I have of those same albums. I also have some albums that were most likely sourced from digital that sound terrible, with no care going into them, more like someone just dumping what's on the cd to vinyl, rather than doing a proper mastering with the intention of going to vinyl. From what I understand, the latest Beatles reissues from Japan are an example of terrible sounding digital vinyl issues.
Why could it sometimes sound better on vinyl even if digital may have been in the signal chain? Well, one thing I can think of: vinyl has it's own level of distortion in its playback. Not saying this is bad, it's probably one thing that adds a bit of character to vinyl. So maybe it "warms" things up a little bit. Just a thought. Also depends on your equipment. I have a nice SACD player (Sony ES555, with some slight modding by the Oades Brothers), but a much nicer tunrtable (Redpoint Quattro, designed by Peter Clark of Redpoint and Thom Mackris, now of Galibier.) The turntable wins in most cases over the cd player. It just presents music to me in a way that feels more natural.
By the way, you have some nice gear, would be a shame to see it go to waste without a turntable!
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Follow Ups
- Re: Fiance disapproves of my vinyl addition - need help - mark maloof 00:47:00 10/30/04 (2)
- By the way, I lucked out in the wife department - mark maloof 00:49:50 10/30/04 (1)
- OOH! OOH! Another reason to get vinyl over cds... - mark maloof 00:56:33 10/30/04 (0)
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