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In Reply to: Re: CDR comparisons of turntables -- is Fremer using an appropriate approach? posted by John Elison on April 17, 2007 at 05:37:56:
That I don't think it would be ethical for a reviewer to judge a piece of equipment from a CDR recording.Another point to be made is that a turntable needs to be judged on it's interaction with the room it is playing in and how it deals with the acoustic vibrations contained in that room, something that cannot be done while playing a CDR recorded from a deck that is physically somewhere else.
Thanks again for the CDRs you gave me a few years ago. I learned a lot.
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Al G
Born To Tinker!
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anything else is double talk. drunken gibberish, actually.But, to each his own. ;-)
At 10:15 am on a Tuesday morning I am somewhat sober and trying not to speak in gibberish but...I don't see how a reviewer could possibly review a piece of equipment by only hearing a recording of the gear! That 'aint right!
Lemme pop a couple of vicodin and have a shot of Ezra Brooks and I'll get back to ya!
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Al G
Born To Tinker!
I could kind of see how a reviewer could do that. I could also see how he would lose control of the car trying to tie his shoe while going 80 mph over the Commodore Barry bridge.How many Vicodin do you have? Mom did teach you to share didn't she?
Henry
We'll make a party out of it.
> That I don't think it would be ethical for a reviewer to judge a piece of equipment from a CDR recording.That's interesting! I'm not sure exactly how ethics come into play here since the only way to judge any piece of audio equipment is with a recording of some type.
> Another point to be made is that a turntable needs to be judged on it's interaction with the room it is
> playing in and how it deals with the acoustic vibrations contained in that room, something that cannot
> be done while playing a CDR recorded from a deck that is physically somewhere else.It really depends on how you make the recording. If you record with speakers off then you don't capture the room interaction, but if you record with speakers on, you capture any acoustic feedback that occurs.
On the other hand, I think there might be advantages to removing the room from the equation, especially for a review. No one has the same room; therefore, do I want to know how my turntable sounds in someone elses room? Or, do I simply want to know how the turntable sounds on its own merrits?
Quite frankly, I do not like acoustic feedback and because of that, I listen to vinyl via CD-R recordings almost exclusively. However, to each his own!
> Thanks again for the CDRs you gave me a few years ago. I learned a lot.
You're entirely welcome!
"That's interesting! I'm not sure exactly how ethics come into play here since the only way to judge any piece of audio equipment is with a recording of some type." . . . played on that table of course!Not with a recording of a recording, however.
Henry
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