I wonder how many of the people upset about this could even tell the difference on a blind listen? I don't know if it's very, but I'd bet its a very low %.
A Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fire
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#292Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is also some with CDs, but vinyl's the real deal. The record cleaner brush. Inspect the needle for dust. Be sure the record is properly seated. Sit back and enjoy.
Just watching the record spin is so incredibly satisfying.
Watching the reels spinning at different rates and the tape moving on an intricate path, in a high-end open-reel tape recorder with multiple motors and multiple heads, e.g. a Revox, was even more satisfying.
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#293Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is trivially correct if you assume: Perfect reproduction means error less than some threshold e. “True” means has enough sampling frequency and accuracy to ensure the error threshold is less than e.
There's always a threshold though. Proof by contradiction: if there's no threshold, then sound fidelity can in theory be infinitely precise. But nature does not work that way - at Planck length distance breaks down, at the width of a carbon atom the resolution of a vinyl surface ends, etc.
Audiophiles talking about quantum fluctuations in their analog recordings :-)
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#294Afaict the cool thing about MoFi pressings (at least, ones from back in the day) is they were done at half speed. So, when the lacquer is cut from the master tape, they'd do it at half playback speed rather than full playback speed, which allowed the physical cutting head to track the high frequencies more accurately. I can say that this absolutely does make a difference during playback; my MoFi copy of Aja sounds ve…
>I can say that this absolutely does make a difference during playback
Any logs from a double-blind, level matched, comparison session with enough trials for statistical significance to prove that assertion?
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#295So I was debugging / documenting last night and put the "smoking gun" video on the background. I don't know why. I guess I felt if the WaPo was raving it must be good. It was four middle aged men crammed into a cupboard, talking. And while I was not paying attention to every word, I missed the gun and the smoke. Where is the bit where a MoFi employee says "we use digital"? All I heard was waffle and self congratulato…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shg0780YgAE 2:12, “we do have 4x DSD” i.e. digital stream 3:50, about making copies of tapes, “we bring a computer with 4x DSD analog to digital converters”
Oh is that what that meant - I guess I am used to journalists "telegraphing" things but the youtuber just seemed to carry on. That sounded like "oh yes we do that" to me but the lack of reaction meant Inmisunderstood
Maybe I am too used to over the top influencers and presenters signalling everything I should react to. But sometimes if I am in a jargon filled world it would be nice for a guide.
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#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shg0780YgAE 2:12, “we do have 4x DSD” i.e. digital stream 3:50, about making copies of tapes, “we bring a computer with 4x DSD analog to digital converters”
Oh is that what that meant - I guess I am used to journalists "telegraphing" things but the youtuber just seemed to carry on. That sounded like "oh yes we do that" to me but the lack of reaction meant Inmisunderstood Maybe I am too used to over the top influencers and presenters signalling everything I should react to. But sometimes if I am in a jargon filled world it would be nice for a guide.
That's part of the skill of a good interviewer: making sure that the audience can follow along, understanding what's actually being said. The interviewer here is obviously an audio enthusiast/record shop owner rather than a journalist, so it's not surprising that they haven't had so much practice at this!
(I've done interviewing for academic research, which has different goals but is also a skill. It's interesting how difficult it is at first.)
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#297"In the world of audiophiles — where provenance is everything and the quest is to get as close to the sound of an album’s original recording as possible — digital is considered almost unholy." Out of context of the rest of the article, this is total nonsense. While some in the audiophile scene like going analog, none of them debate against the truth that objectively , vinyl is far lower quality. Vinyl doesn't have ne…
> Vinyl doesn't have nearly the resolution or nearly the dynamic range that a high-quality digital recording will have.
Not to mention that setting up a tonearm just right appears to be a feat of wizardry, or being sure that the recording was properly mastered for vinyl.
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#298Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the other half? Magic in the amp-circuit?
Thousand dollar rocks and crystals to place around your room.
Crystals? I only use wooden resonators, personally.
https://www.analogueseduction.net/record-clamps/SHUNMOOKprod...
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#299Earlier quoted context omitted.
That whole line of thinking just blows me away. It's possible to accurately sample and reproduce any vinyl recording in the digital realm. It's absolutely not possible to accurately record every digital recording onto vinyl. For instance, it's not hard at all to make bass so loud that it causes the needle to leap out of the track, or treble so high that the needle can't accurately track the high frequency vibrations.…
> For instance, it's not hard at all to make bass so loud that it causes the needle to leap out of the track I was a drum and bass dj when it was all still vinyl. Even in a club with huge speakers, I've never seen the needle jump due to the bass (although some places used to tape a penny to the top of the headshelf). The weighting on the tone arms can be adjusted so if you've got a needle dancing around it's due to y…
Same deal with dubstep records.
Re: A Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fire
#300"In the world of audiophiles — where provenance is everything and the quest is to get as close to the sound of an album’s original recording as possible — digital is considered almost unholy." Out of context of the rest of the article, this is total nonsense. While some in the audiophile scene like going analog, none of them debate against the truth that objectively , vinyl is far lower quality. Vinyl doesn't have ne…
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