RE: That vinyl still sounds better? (nt)

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Posted by Todd Krieger (A) on March 19, 2021 at 21:33:56

In Reply to: That vinyl still sounds better? (nt) posted by Jonesy on March 19, 2021 at 17:58:23:

When CDs first came out, a lot of people thought they sounded better than vinyl..... But around 1995, the sentiment began to change...... And in spite of "advances" in digital audio technology over the past 20 years, a lot of people still prefer vinyl.... Could be a telltale sign that digital audio playback from a sonic perspective has been "running in place" a lot more than a lot of us would like to believe.......

This is in spite of the "knowledge base" in the setup of vinyl rigs having diminished relative to when the CD took over in the early 1980s..... And although there has been a huge comeback with vinyl playback, I think the percentage of "properly set-up rigs" has gone down... (A lot of vinyl newcomers don't seem to care much about setup that can make a good rig sound great. Although I do think modern cartridges are more "forgiving" to alignment aberrations, relative to their older counterparts.) I believe the "perfection" aspect of audiophile-dom has taken a hit because a lot of recent music, even the better stuff, doesn't seem to command the utmost fidelity like it did prior to the digital age.

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That vinyl still sounds better? (nt) - Jonesy 17:58:23 03/19/21 (1)

RE: That vinyl still sounds better? (nt) - Todd Krieger 21:33:56 03/19/21 (0)

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