When you say "Apple streamer", are you referring to an Apple TV? If so, which model?

If you have not heard vinyl played back on a good system, go hear one first. If you want to start, try looking into Pro-Ject, Music Hall, VPI, Rega, Technics. There are many other choices.

Look into Analog Planet website. Michael Fremer is the expert.

[quote=absolutepitch]If you have not heard vinyl played back on a good system, go hear one first. If you want to start, try looking into Pro-Ject, Music Hall, VPI, Rega, Technics. There are many other choices.

I agree. But you do,of course, realize that 99% of all the vinyl out there was mastered digitally?

Have to disagree with you here again.

Digital mastering was not really commonplace until the end of the 70's/beginning of the 80's. Already tens of millions of records out there way before then.

Maybe, but only maybe, 99% of " current vinyl " is digitally mastered. I have a modest collection of around 1500 LP's and 90% of those are from the 50's and 60's and most definitely NOT digitally mastered.

Dave

chilly willy wrote:

Have to disagree with you here again.

Digital mastering was not really commonplace until the end of the 70's/beginning of the 80's. Already tens of millions of records out there way before then.

Maybe, but only maybe, 99% of " current vinyl " is digitally mastered. I have a modest collection of around 1500 LP's and 90% of those are from the 50's and 60's and most definitely NOT digitally mastered.

Dave

yes, right you are. but few of us saved our old vinyl from the sixties and seventies. I sold all of mine, in a crate, to a music dealer in chicago about thirty years ago for 500 dollars.Wish I hadn't. But I do have a few new vinyl LP's that were mastered analog, and they sound better than anything else I have ever heard.