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We're trying to move forward in time here folks, not backwards. Audiophiles' preoccupation with vinyl becomes more and more absurd as times goes by. Stop it, please!

It's hard to find good vinyl recommendations from someone who really knows music. A magazine such as yourself doing vinyl reviews and write-ups...even better! I will looking for them!

Being new to the vinyl arena, I have to admit that I listen to LPs about 80% of the time over CDs. There are several reasons, but let's bring it to the first two: 1) LPs sound betteron the proper equipment, and 2_ I am tired of the recording industry whining about lack of sales, etc, when it is trying to ram poorly recorded, overhyped, underengineered recordings on us. There is more good music to be had on LPs than I can ever hope to play. Therefore, it would be fantastic to have more analog hardware reviews, as well as possilby reviewing LPs themselves.

Rather than a pithy arguement about why you should, I'll leave it with a simple "Yes, please"

Absolutely, with todays hi grade idie releases an occasional pop or click significantly Supersedes the stale analytical soundscape which includes all the digital anomalies such as warble, ghosting, clocking errors (digital skipping), clip instead of roll off and the ever present in your face brightness. Not that I would want Mr. Fremer garnering a larger bed of work but it would be nice to see three or four different staff writers contributing their different views of analog reproduction. I'm sure you have other writers who hold some strong joys of analog even today.

I'm just being greedy but, I do find additional coverage of analog desirable.

There is only one Mikey Fremer, so adding another writer to the vinyl beat would be superfluous.

Someone (might have been Michael Fremer) once said (regarding redbook CD resolution vs analogue): "We already have a high-resolution source. It's sampling rate is infinite" I am not going to SACD or DVDA. I have a good CD player, but my serious bucks go to records and record playing gear.

There's always room for a bit more coverage of vinyl. I'm currently rediscovering my old turntable and I think my ears and my Sonus Faber Concertos are breathing a sigh of relief after struggling with CD for five years.

How many audiophiles can buy vinyl outside of mail order or estate sales?

Like it or not, Music and vidio is going digital. Why not cover even more digital playback systems. Ther are a lot of very good ones that Stereophile has not even acknowledged.

It's hard to believe that you guys still think vinyl sounds as good as or better than the best CDs! It's fun to read about new 'tables, but you would be serving readers better to cover various stereo components available at a realistic price than waste pages on vinyl related components we either can't afford or would never buy anyway. Our old LPs may still be fun to listen to sometimes but vinyl is dead! Get over it.

Vinyl is the high-rez stamdard and a high-end magazine needs to cover the best resolution system in depth.

You have a really good balance.

While I love vinyl product reviews, to many can be just as bad as to few. The only thing I would really like to see a bit more of are graphs and measurements of cartridges, rumble and wow and flutter of tirntables, and the like.

Vinyl can sound good, sure, but it survives primarily as a retro aging-boomer pacifier. Digital is the future.

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I think it is just fine as is the rest of your coverage.

More vinyl and analog gear reviews!!!! Actually, you should match an analog review for every digital review.

it has falling off. Mikey does a good job, but needs more space to cover lps on thier own.

Even if I have no immediate intention of upgrading my vinyl playback gear, I do try to find some of the music mentioned in the articles.

Michael Fremer does a wonderful job but I'd rather see more on what Kalman Rubinson is doing and more interviews with people like Jim Fosgate.

Yes, more analog vinyl coverage, please. Also report more on tube gear, horn speakers, cassette tapes, and reel-to-reel playback. I know such technology is considered old, but analog sounds better and warmer, while digital sounds cold and harsh. Commercial CDs are overly compressed and equalized while analog mediums are mastered for audiophile listeners, so they have wider dynamic ranges and better stereophonic imaging. Commercial CDs are all mixed and mastered to sound like gangsta rap or nu-metal records, but audiophile vinyl sounds more like real music.

Real high fidelity is analog!

I always enjoy reading Mr. Fremer's discussing all things vinyl. Cover more and let's get Fidelity Research back in business!!!!!

Although I'm a vinyl enthusiast, I realize the medium is really limited in availability and popularity. Your current coverage is thus quite sufficient.

Yes - a few more articles on how to get more out of your current equipment in addition to more equipment reviews. Since vinyl is much less "set and forget" good info on DYI setup component matching, etc. would be interesting. I know that there is a lot of info available on the web (AA et. al.) but more concise information would be great.

With the abundance of used vinyl available for about a $1 per title, it's a great way to explore new (old) music on the cheap. Let's see: highly compressed, over-hyped lip-sync material for $18.99 a pop in the mall vs clean used vinyl LPs for about the same price as the tax on a CD? Someone cue up the theme from Jeopardy and let the thinking begin.

Most especially 'tables in the $1000 to 3000 range.

There is an ever growing demand for new vinyl products and covering turntables, cartridges, phono pre-amps and records would be great service for the audiophile masses, both new and old. There is even a greater amount of audiophiles coming back to vinyl and a newer generation that is discovering vinyl and the art of analog bliss.