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In Reply to: The room we are in is the "Vinyl Asylum" and Vinyl is an analog format. posted by Teresa on September 14, 2006 at 12:54:33:
Teresa,I have been willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, but your ideas are really getting tired. Most if not all the new vinyl available today is digitally recorded, that is a fact of life you are going to have to get used to, it is not going to change. I sell music software and computers to recording studio's and there is no way 99.5% of the studios are going to go back to analog there is just too many positives for them to record digitally. The Rolling Stones LP's that were remastered from DSD are some of the best sounding Stones LP's you can get hands down. I have MFSL's, Original Pressings the the new versions are by far the best sounding. As several people here have said and you pretty much ignore is that it is all in the mastering. A good mastering job means good sound, poor mastering means poor sound no matter the media.
Yes, I love listening to LP's and listen to them about 99% of the time, I love Reel-To-Reel and have at last count 8 reel-to-reel decks (in the bed room, living room, music room, home office and work office), I don't think that there are too many people who listen to R2R at work, but I have a nice Akai 747DBX machine that I listen to every day 8 hours a day, I love the sound, the format, everything about tape. But, I also listen to CD's because I also love music and there is just some music that I love that will never be released on LP so if I want to listen to it I have to listen to the CD and some CD's sound damn good, better then they have any right to sound.
At this point I would say you are an analog bigot, and I don't mean that in a good way. Any kind of bigotry is wrong, it means you are intolerant toward those who hold different opinions from oneself and any way you slice and dice it that is just plan wrong and does not belong in any public forum.
I have been entertained some of your previous posts, but you have gone off the deep end so from this point on I will pass any of your posts by.
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HenryA 12-gauge shotgun is the ultimate arbiter of disputes - G. Gordon Liddy
CD actually causes me physical pain especially on massed strings. I've tried upsampling to 24/96, I've tried tubes, I tried rings, bands and polishes including Shine-Ola. Nothing makes CDs sound good or even slightly comfortable to me.And if we had not laid down and let the Digital establishment roll us over 100% of new recordings would be Analog, we would have George Mann's Optical Analog format as well as much improved tape formats. But we laid down and let them screw us. We really only have ourselves to blame because we were not strong enough.
There is not a single DVD-Audio I own that has the musical quality of even my least sounding LP.
I am glad you are enjoying Reel to Reels even at work, which is really cool. But wouldn't you rather have all new recordings Analog and every recording available in a pure analog format?
It seems you have admitted defeat a little too soon. Until all the engineers discover what Tony Falkner has discovered and begin recording 2 Track 15 IPS and editing with razor blades my work is not done. That is the whole purpose of my web site: Nothing less than an Analog renaissance.
Please help with reviews of your favorite LPs and Reel to Reels.
"Analog is Music, Digital is mathematics"
Happy listening,
Teresa
Everything you said was right on the money, but there won't be changing any one person's opinion here. Best to, as you say, skip this crappola entirely. The type of thinking exhibited by Teresa is something I don't even want to be associated with.
You like 'LA Confidential'?
noir in the true sense of the word, i.e. the ending is definately not happy. Think Fred McMurray in "Double Indemnity". But what's great about the ending in Chinatown is what's not said but implied. When John Huston as Noah Cross takes his 'daughter', your skin crawls with the knowledge of what kind of upbringing awaits her.And of course the whole Polanski-kitty cat-nose slice-quick cut to giant bandage. Hilarious.
You're right.But if L.A.Confidential had been cast just little better, had the script tweaked a little more ....
But remember, they couldn't resist a 'sequel' to Chinatown - "the Two Jakes". I saw it once, but I don't remember it that well (!).
Had high hopes with both Ellroy and De Palma on board, but early reviews are'nt good. We'll see, eh?BTW, you're right on concerning L.A.C.-ending was almost chipper, for chrissakes. That's noir? Not in my book....
We seem to have pretty much hijacked the hell out of this thread. (-:
You are giving up way too soon.
"Analog is Music, Digital is mathematics"
Happy listening,
Teresa
You know, lakes of stew, rivers of gin etc. Unfortuneately, one has just about as much likelihood to actually happen as the other.
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