Vinyl Asylum Welcome Licorice Pizza (LP) lovers! Setup guides and Vinyl FAQ.

---

[ Follow Ups ] Thread: [ Display  All  Email ] [ Vinyl Asylum ]

---

[ Alert Moderator ]

---

Sound Quality vs Recording Techniques

Posted by Jazz-Vinyl (A) on July 19, 2006 at 20:01:23

Hello Vinyl-ites!!!

This is my first post here. So please, be gentle with me :-)

I have put ye 'ole Table back in the main system after years of it being relegated to the 2nd system, where I would make a cassette tape of any desired vinyl on my Nakamichi Cassette Deck to be played in the main system (on a Harmon Kardon TD 4600 deck).

I am very happy to have the table back in the main system again. Now to figure a way to store all my vinyl in the Living Room and have it look nice too. Currently, I have reinforced shelves in the (heated) garage for Vinyl storage...

And....

I was noticing that on two Alan Parson Projects' recordings (a decade apart) that one was far superior in sound quality to the other.

I found this rather curious, and started reading the recording details and I noticed the Inferior sounding vinyl says "Recorded entirely on digital equipment"!!!

Gasp!

Could it be a decade after the superior vinyl that "Digital" crept into the recording studio and wreaked havoc? Maybe the mastering was not as carefully done?

The Vinyls' in question are:

Alan Parson's Project - "I Robot": 1976 and just SUPERB sound
Alan Parson's Project - "Stereotomy": 1986, the Vinyl sound is definitely _not_ as superb as it was in 1976!

Whatchathink???

This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:

Kimber Kable

---

[ Top of Page ] [ Contact Us ] [ Support/Wish List ] [ Copyright © 2025, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]

---

[ General ] [ Speakers ] [ Tubes ] [ Vinyl ] [ Digital ] [ Hi-Rez ] [ Video Asylum ] [ Cables ] [ Tweaks/DIY ] [ Music ] [ Films ]

---