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In Reply to: SACD compared to Vinyl ? posted by CLE on March 13, 2007 at 07:21:40:
I did both, and ended up paying more attention to vinyl. I think strings sound better, the soundstage and imaging is more anchored, textures more focused which makes rhythms spring from the speakers more engagingly. I listen to Classical which is obviously recorded with the natural acoustic preserved. (We hope.) I use a record cleaner and 99% of my used lps are dead quiet. If you haven't listened to Lps in 20 years your in for a big suprise. My turntable was $2500 list and cart was $550 list, but my loaner turntable, a Nottingham Horizon which was much cheaper, exhibited the same results. I was not in any way prepared for the quality of sound I heard from vinyl and was extrememly prejudiced toward SACD sound, especially multi-channel, until I heard what the former could do.A caveat though. Other genres on used vinyl seem to be harder to come by, and harder to come by in good shape, at least that's what I've noticed in the thrifts. This might be an issue. You might list what kind of music you like. In some cases, digital or SACD remasters might be the way to go. I still have an SACD player but it doesn't get much playing time.
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there has been nothing new for decades. I have a decent LP collection still (> 2000 LPs) but it has not expanded for about 5 years because I want to hear something new and that restricts me to digital and, whenever possible, multichannel SACD. If you have no classical vinyl, then there's much to acquire and enjoy as long as you are content to be an anachrophile. :-)
****"If you have no classical vinyl, then there's much to acquire and enjoy....."****I think you have hit a key point here. What's "new" to the buyer is what's "new" to them, not when it was first released. I remember being excited by my first "new" SACD 40 year old Szell releases in 1999. From that standpoint vinyl does have a lot to offer.
But the funny thing is that among the many of people I know who are "vinyl lovers" most of them really have very little vinyl to speak of. They will have these $3000-$5000 turntable set ups and won't have even own a 100 lps. Then they will say as a key argument for the lack of new releases that there are oceans of vinyl out there. I say to them "Well, why don't you have any?!"
Robert C. Lang
Very true. I've been buying a lot of Tocanini mono LP's lately for a buck a piece. There just isn't any SACD that good! Sorry.
gary
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