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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2015 10:42:03 GMT
Over the week ive been seriously listerning to my File based system & done an A/B comparison between the FLAC files & my Vinyl LP's. There is absolutely no competition. The files win. However they do not win where my 12" singles are concerned. I have thousands of these & still collect them & pretty much the reason i still have a turntable. The Files even sound better than my CD player.. So really the only LP's i have left are pretty much history, basically resigned to the ornaments section {Keeps for old time sake}. Who would have thought eh  |
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Post by MartinT on Jun 17, 2015 10:43:59 GMT
If you're happy with your deck for playing 12" singles, Andr'e, you may as well invest as much as you can or want on the digital side. What DAC are you feeding the laptop into?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2015 10:53:53 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Jun 17, 2015 11:10:41 GMT
It's an all-in-one streamer/DAC, I hadn't appreciated that. Thanks, Andr'e.
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Post by gazjam on Jun 17, 2015 12:35:45 GMT
Change is good and whatever works...works!  |
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Post by John on Jun 17, 2015 12:54:14 GMT
Great to hear you got something you really enjoying Andre
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Post by Tim on Jun 17, 2015 17:42:22 GMT
I still have my HRT Streamer II+ André and that gets listened to more than anything else I have.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2015 12:17:20 GMT
Nice one Tim..
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2015 12:53:54 GMT
If you're happy with your deck for playing 12" singles, Andr'e, you may as well invest as much as you can or want on the digital side. Prooves one thing. The Turntable sounds very good, the LP's are of medicore sound quality compared to 12" singles which are superb sounding. For many many years ive invested a hell of a lot of money in Turntables trying to get my LP's to sound good, never got sound quality i wanted. As it happens it was never the turntables/cartridge that were of fault. This was becoming more & more apparent when playing a modern Vinyl re-issue taken from digital source compared to an old Analogue pressing of the same. |
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Post by brian2957 on Jun 18, 2015 15:25:08 GMT
Yup , I gave up on vynil years ago . I was going to go back to it until I became involved in FBA . I have to say though , that I've spent the last few years trying to get my FBA setup to sound more analogue I just don't have the money , or patience , to go back to vynil now . |
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Post by stanleyb on Jun 18, 2015 15:41:06 GMT
If you still got a TT, hang on to it. I have been busy working on a solution to TT versus DAC operational issues. So maybe one day...
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Post by brian2957 on Jun 18, 2015 15:46:33 GMT
Nah , got rid of my turntable years ago . There are plenty of decent turntables going on Ebay but I don't think many of them would be a match for my FBA system . My problem is that I will always revert to what sounds best ( to me ) and the turntable could easily become an expensive ornament.
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Post by Dave on Jun 18, 2015 15:52:43 GMT
I use FBA almost exclusively now, in fact my CDP hasn't spun a disk in months, poor old thing.
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Post by brian2957 on Jun 18, 2015 15:55:09 GMT
Mines has been up in the loft for a few years now Dave |
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Post by Dave on Jun 18, 2015 16:09:03 GMT
I don't have the heart to pack mine away, it's so pretty.... lol
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2015 17:01:03 GMT
I must keep my TT for my 12" singles tho, they do sound great..im afaraid albums will have to be file based..
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Post by MartinT on Jun 19, 2015 8:09:14 GMT
One noticeable thing with vinyl playback is that the better the equipment and setup, the more enjoyable, noise-free and click/pop-free the experience becomes. I am rarely aware that I'm playing vinyl as opposed to optical these days and that is the way it should be. Greater dynamic range equals suppressed noise floor and much faster recovery from clicks and pops, eliminating their nuisance value. Of course, a good clean non-worn stylus and RCM help greatly.
Anyone who says that a higher end deck makes noise/pops/clicks more obvious hasn't got the right equipment or setup.
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Post by stanleyb on Jun 19, 2015 9:14:26 GMT
Anyone who says that a higher end deck makes noise/pops/clicks more obvious hasn't got the right equipment or setup. A large amount of those pops and clicks are very much dependent on how the phono preamp handles those signal overshoots. But it can be an engineering battle between controlling those overshoots and producing a high quality sound with little or no feedback. Valve phono preamps tend to score better here. |
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Post by MartinT on Jun 19, 2015 9:21:21 GMT
Agreed, Stan, as well as passive RIAA equalisation rather than putting it in the feedback loop.
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on Jun 19, 2015 9:28:03 GMT
I've gone the other way, having been listening to FBA for years, then getting back into vinyl in the last couple of years. The digital side only gets used for films now, haven't played any music through it for a long time.
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