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In Reply to: HELP!....I OFFER YOU A CHALLANGE AS I'M LOST IN A BINARY WORLD! posted by CRAZYDIAMOND on November 12, 2006 at 15:40:45:
Hi MarkI occasionally dive into this forum and saw your earnest plea, so am offering my two-penneth worth.
I too was very much a die-in-the-wall vinylyte. However, to me this meant a music collection that ended in 1984. So I have been using CD for sometime, but always bemoaning its lack of quality. That was until a few years ago I purchased a Gryphon Adagio - this was the most analogue sounding CD player I had ever heard - it made the Wadia, in comparison, sound thin & harsh.
The other point that everyone seems to have missed - and substantiated by a recording engineer - over the last few years the quality of the analogue to digital converters used by studios has considerably improved. New CDs do not sound like the early ones - the poor quality attributed to the CD was not a problem with the CD, but the preceding mastering process. To prove this there are many remastered CDs being made that sound very good and are streets ahead of the earlier versions. So good in fact, that I just bought a 2005 reissue of a Charlie Mariano CD that actually sounds much better than the original (which I shelled out a lot for) vinyl. Incidentally, ECM lead the way on quality recordings by a country mile IMO.
I am now sufficiently enough impressed with CD, that I have sold 3000 LPs + Orbe/SME in order to, well stop my LP collection taking over my office and so I can concentrate more on new music. Yes there was a bit of vinyl void - I still have the the odd "ooh that bit used to sound really good", but I am over it now. I also ditched the valves as well - I had become fed up with shelling out £s every year or so on new valves. I used the money from the vinyl to buy an Accuphase & new Eclipse TDZ speakers (wow these are amazing).
As for PCs - I have a squeezebox3 for Internet radio - yes it sounds very good but they are a bit hair set when it comes to set up (I would recommend you look at their forum first). If you want something you switch on and play - I do not think you can beat a stand alone system - but that might be because I am of a certain age!!!!
Best of luck.
Derek
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