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Vinyl sound is often said to have more "life" and dynamics than digital sounds. I tend to agree, but after changing to better interconnects between my CDP and AMP, it's no longer the case with my stereo. Having a super record player will IMHO in many cases raise the quality of the sound over the sound from digital equipment.
The collector's syndrome can not qualify as a true hifi interest. It's more like an interest for collecting stuff, for boasting or other egoistic purposes. Maybe I am wrong, but that's how I see it. Music should always be the main interest triggering a need to make it sound as true as possible, at least if you got the genuine "HiFidelitis". Have a nice day
"Cognative disonance???" It's hard to enthuse about a "rationalist" that manages to repeatedly misspell BOTH words of his philosophical reference. What a maroon!
Yes, cyberspace skeptics and protectors of gullible audiophiles often reveal themselves to be uneducated, superstitious and dull-witted.
A find at the used record and cd show in Atl Sunday was a "remastered" version of Vladimir Horowitz at the Met. I had forgotten that I owned the RCA Red Seal LP version of this concert that I enjoyed in the past.
On the remastered Cd that was first converted to 2496 from the mastertapes, there is a quote from "Stereophile" about the high quality of the disc. It is far and away better than the lp, but I will admit that I do not have a class A tt rig in my home. Although the performance is a little bass shy on both the disc and LP, the performance is excellent.
I still contend that if any of us are to do well with vinyl you must spend upwards of $1500 to begin to get there. A big part of that must be a good phono stage and I am beginning to think that the phono stage in my Yamaha CX-2 preamp is just acceptable and maybe not much more. I must admit that David Benoit's This Side Up and my recent buy of The Jeff Lorber Fusion both have great bass extension, as do many other discs I own, just not this Horowitz or a another RCA Red Seal disc I own of Artur Rubenstein of Chopin works. The SACD remaster of that is much better.
It may be that my first upgrade must be to a good cart that is at least Phile class B. I have some lps that do sound great, but the ones in which I have the CD = are still not quite there. There are just too much mechanical issues to overcome with the rigs that I own. My old refurbished Dual 502 is about to get a Rega 301 arm. It has a Stanton 881S on it now. My Yamaha 550 has an Ortofon OM 40, and my wife's Sony PSLX-5 we use mostly for Chrismas music in the livingroom has a Shure M91ED that I am almost embarrassed to admit at least should be upgraded to a M97XE.
I do enjoy spinning vinyl just the same. It really is remarkable that it sounds a good as it does.
Judging from what I hear from folks out there with both digital and analog systems, it's about a 50-50 split, some report their analog rig is superior to their digital rig, some report the opposite. Re Artur Rubenstein, one of my favs: Some of his greatest recordings were on RCA LIving Stereo, of course, and the digital remastering of them was very good indeed.