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I'm reading those anti-digital rants and I think by myself...

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In Reply to: Digital is like fingernails on a chackboard, I will keep with analog if I want to listen to music and enjoy it.... posted by haugenmarka@hotmail.com on November 18, 2005 at 09:13:25:

what are these guys talking about? I'm connecting my transport directly to my speakers (which include digital signal processing), so the chain can't be shorter and can't be more digital. Still I don't understand all the objections/problems/nasties that people describe w.r.t digital. I don't hear all that stuff, when I like the tunes, I enjoy them, be the source analog or be it digital.
Competent vinyl guys are guys like Stan Ricker, who know about the downsides of vinyl at the recording end, which includes the technical compromises the format knows. How old is Stan? All those techie guys who were playing the game 25 years ago are now 25 years older, they won't be here forever.
And further, if I recall correctly, recording gear is no longer built, so when parts break, they use old machines as source for replacement. Maybe the machines leave vinyl city before the guys.

Klaus

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Re: I'm reading those anti-digital rants and I think by myself... - john curl 21:03:42 11/19/05 (5)
Learn and grow, Klaus. "You can't fool all the people all the time". I feel exactly the same as Hau...
- And what does that prove? - KlausR. 23:00:55 11/19/05 (4)
  You, haugenmarka and others find digital unlistenable or get headaches. If it's that bad why then do you listen to CD in the first place? If you own a CDP, why did you buy it and why do you keep it?
  And what does your reaction prove? That you have a personal problem with that format. Does it prove anything else?
  
  Klaus
  - it's that bad... - haugenmarka@hotmail.com 15:05:07 11/21/05 (2)
    I DONT listen to CD, I bought a player in 1984 without much thought about it just figured this was the new thing must be better like everyone else, then i slowly lost interest in music completely for a few years. one day decided i have all these LPs should get my TT fixed (needle had broken), found my self enjoying music again and for hours, would actually increase the volume with time. talked to a few others and came to conclusion digital = bad. this was all long before becomming an "audiophile" per say. hey if digital does not bother you.. power to you. i keep the CDP only to listen to samples of music to see if i like it, if i do i then hunt down an LP of it no matter how hard to find or cost. no CD for me...
    - Re: I bought a CDP in 1984... - theaudiohobby 17:45:51 11/24/05 (1)
      "I DONT listen to CD, I bought a player in 1984..."
      You bought a CDP 20+ years ago and you have based your opinion of digital and CD on that!
      
      This is so funny... I will be kind and simply say, wake up and smell some fresh roses.
      
      Music making the painting, recording it the photograph
      - mistake ... 1994... - haugenmarka@hotmail.com 12:59:06 11/25/05 (0)
        
        In Reply to: Re: I bought a CDP in 1984... posted by theaudiohobby on November 24, 2005 at 17:45:51:
        
        typo, bought in 1994, but anyway i have listened to many many other CD players since then of all different types and systems and none sound any good to me. and there are no "fresh roses" to smell, at least yet, maybe with 192K or higher, but not here yet.
  - If you can't be with the one you love... - Wellfed 11:34:20 11/20/05 (0)
    ...love the one you're with, that's what I say. Wait, that's plagiarism, isn't it? Never mind.
    
    ;-)

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