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Sweet. Do you still have cassettes?
If I can find a clean Nak OMS-7A CD player, this rig is complete. Need to hook some Cornwalls or Klipshorns to this system and go to audio heaven.
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One of these days I'm going to make the run to Houston for a ride, but you are going to have include a tour of you audio system in the deal.
Ever listen a song back to back mp3 to cd?
With Analog the entire dynamic range is there, digital is only samples of it.
0's and 1's
Oh well, in todays society quality doesnt matter anymore so its really no use in talking about it.
About three four years ago backed up to DVD and now I have been backing them up to a TB drive. That has been taking time. I dont think I am missing too much, an Ipod has become your music collection on the go. From the Car, to work, to the home stereo to listening by yourself in the airport or on the bed. I took convenience over the original.
The thing I miss the most - The photos and liner notes. They left when vinyl went out of style.
Remember the In through the out door album? The paper sack, the watercolor sleeve? The last great album to come out was Pulse. The blinking LED and extensive liner notes. Locally the music store just closed its doors. Amazon, iTunes is how we get music now. Kmart has music but Im not into Celine Dion or Kanye. The last music I purchased was from the artist directly.
Music has changed.
As for cracks and needle noise, perhaps on your family console player, but on a decent table and good 200 gram vinyl its clean and clear.
Its like this: when music reproduction started, the whole point was to make live music, played at a concert hall, available at home. The whole idea of studio recorded music really didnt even exist. Thats why the whole notion of 'stereo' came about; to make the sound stage replicate what you would hear if you were at the concert hall. That is why to this day, when describing music reproduction, the term 'soundstage' is used.
Later musicians went into the studio, but only to record basically their live show, but without an audience. No rehearsing was done, no multiple 'takes'. You showed up and you laid it down on tape. That is the school ole Walter Sear is from and why he likes guys like McCartney and those like him. They dont dink around, they show up, they plug in, and they put the stuff down and get out.
Along the way, musicians found they could cover up their mistakes and sterilize their music but doing takes over & over, and dubbing and redubbing their songs. This totally takes away the 'musicality' of what a musician does; they perform songs! It never was intended to be perfect. Ever been to a full orchestra performance? You will hear a guy coughing now and then, a piece of sheet music might fall, a cello bow might hit the chair. All of that makes the experience real and unique, its not sterilized by a hundred edits in ProTools.
So sure, you can buy recycled 'music' nowadays thats been edited a millions ways, compressed and the full dynamic range stripped away and saved to a hard-drive as 1's & 0's. But I prefer my music to be as unique, full sounding and robust as a live show of the artist who made it.
Let's just say that I have 2 turntables in my house, 1 upstairs and 1 in the wine cellar.
Vino and vinyl nights are hard to beat!
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