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Vinyl epiphany tonight

Bigerik

Bigerik

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Just finished listening to an album I know oh so well, yet I feel I had never heard it until tonight. Namely, Diamond Mine by Blue Rodeo. I have seen them at least a dozen times in concert, heard the CD hundreds of times, yet today, I found it in REAL nice shape on vinyl, and there is no going back. On vinyl, they are there. Imaging is awesome. Detail. Warmth. Smoothness. Amazing. This was thru my Dual 5000/Ortofon OM-30. The OM-30 is not even fully broken in. Not even 10 hours on it yet.
Just to make sure I wasn't imagining things, I played it on CD for comparison, and while there might have been a difference in background noise (Still need to make a record cleaning machine :) ), all the life was sucked out of it. The image compressed. It just was not the same.
How have we been doing this to ourselves for all these years? We really thought CD sounded better?
Let me say it again. WOW!
Erik

NP Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds. "Don't Pull Your Love" :)
 
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Hey Bill!
We should get a bunch of Toronto AK members together and spin vinyl sometime or something!
Erik
 
Spinning Vinyl

Absolutely!
I was just spinning Cowboy Junkies "the caution horses" when I saw that you had been epiphanized... as much as I love good music I'm not sure that an 'epiphany' is an acceptably Canadian thing to experience.
Regrdz
Bill
 
Somewhat non-politically correct, isn't it? Then again, stating a strong preference of any kind is not a particularly Canadian thing either. Gotta like everything. Never say anything bad about anything..... :D
Erik
 
And I bet Margo sounds like she is right in your living room....
(and that thought is enough to make a guy wanna drool.... ;) )
Erik
 
This happened to me a lot when I first got into vinyl again. Songs that I had heard on the radio or cd suddenly were totally different songs, Frampton Comes Alive became a real experience, one not to be missed, while on the radio it was just ok. Brubeck-Time Out on vinyl is incredible, nothing like the snippets that you hear all over advertisingdom........ I just found it on CD so I am going to compare them tonight. I must admit, I am collection a lot of CD's lately, mainly for the conveinience and also for the fact that most new stuff isn't on Vinyl and good music is good music........... though vinyl makes it great music :cool:
 
The thing is, there is just so much GREAT old vinyl out there to be had for cheap. Take a lifetime to listen to it all. Plus I am turning into enough of an old fart that a lot of new music doesn't do it for me.
As you said, vinyl is an experience. Been many years since I had a decent TT (my Oracle). I forgot how great it is....
Erik
 
Margo in my room.....

Its almost too much to think about isn't it...
Over the years I've tried to buy CD copies of some of my favorite vinyl ( just for the convenience) like Brubecks Time Out. I now have three generations of it, Original vinyl, original CD and remastered CD. Guess what? The vinyl copy is still the best!
I was at the McIntosh dealer today and he played a Jacintha SACD through the Mc 2275 integrated. This was the first time I've really listened to SACD on a decent system. It sounded quite nice but still.... its not vinyl..
Bill
 
Which Mac dealer? Executive on Yonge St? Was in there last week when a guy dropped 5 hun on a power cord......
I do agree that vinyl is more work, but the SOUND! The Sound. The sound.....
Erik
 
Erik,

Congrats on the setup, this is what it's all about! I love vinyl and the magic there is just amazing!

Enjoy, Enjoy, Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Thanks Dingus!
I so TOTALLY understand.
Now the next step is to build a record cleaning machine. Building Box, here I come! :)
Erik
 
I had a similar vinyl epiphany years ago, back in my early 20s, and I've been a believer in vinyl ever since. It happened to me whilst listening on my parents' sound system: an plasticky, early 90s Onkyo belt-drive TT with Audio Technica MM cartridge, via a basic Recoton phono preamp, piped through a decent(for what it is) Aiwa mini-system! It was fine for the casual(and slightly hard of hearing) listeners like my folks(my mom was a splendid singer and musician, but oddly not an audiophile in any way), but quite far from Hi-Fi. The record was an absolutely pristine copy of Sinatra's "A Man Alone."
I put it on and couldn't believe my ears. I had to check the standalone Technics CDP also connected to make sure I somehow wasn't listening to it, instead. No- absolutely no- background noise! I could almost see Frank and the orchestra. The sound was warm and lush- at the very least, the equal to the pretty decent Technics CD player! I thought to myself that if an LP could sound this good on such a low-budget system, imagine how it'll sound on some truly decent gear!

Congrats, Erik. Nice feeling, eh? :tongue:

Cheers.
:beerchug:
-AlphaLima
 
Return To Vinyl

Hey, so of us are old enough to have never left! There is no better time to enjoy vinyl -- it's so cheap for so much. Perfect for addiction. For me it's the least expensive method to get the most hours of quality sound.

I have music on 24/7/365 and haven't heard all I have yet. Sort of like my 86 year old father-in-law. He has over 5,000 books stuffed in his large house. He'll never live long enough to read what he has left, but keeps on getting new/used books. That's optimism combined with addiction -- perfect.
 
Certainly am old enough not to have left. Actually, I never really DID leave. Just with various international moves and all, I had to move my Oracle, ended up with only my 505-2, which NEVER went away. My rediscovery is based on having a decent vinyl rig again. My first TT was an old garrard automatic, with 4 speeds. Still have that one too! :) Was about 12 when I set that up. Sony quad receiver and Akai Speakers. My earliest memories are of saving up and buying records......
Erik
 
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