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Post by HD Music & Test on Apr 4, 2024 15:47:57 GMT
For the last 2 years we have been able to place you in the reording environment with digital, vinyl its possible BUT man it costs big stylee to get close to the real with the musicians situtaion. I never grew up with vinyl. My father had a recording studio so Studer R2R's were the normal basically vinyl was like listening to MP3's at that point for me.
However 95% of all my friends had a good record collection I utterly get that and the pleasure that goes with the whole gatefold and cleaning/ queing up I do get it. But for myself at 57 (must be the odd one here I know) I have better things to do in life like listening to more music. It's like travelling say 2 hours a day to work and back (and I know many folks have no option but to go where the work is) buts that's around 480 hours a year allowing for holidays etc you are not going to get back. The individual musician has TOTAL control of the reply, pitch/tone/speed/decay/volume and whimsy as they see fit, not going to truly replicate that, but you can get extremely close and in a real world environment imho. Also have to take into account ther cost of music these days decent vinyl upwards from £80 an album quality R2R recordings start at £250+ Maybe keeping those great albums that sound just right to you maybe the happy medium here imho.
I'm not anti vinyl it can sound stunning, but today to really achieve that its a lot of faff and only the dire hard vinyl nuts will go to such lengths imho
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Post by petea on Apr 4, 2024 18:50:32 GMT
I guess if starting completely anew I would start with the room and so things live power and materials. Although streaming would be a major source I think I would still want some physical media of some sort and, starting from scratch, I would probably go with LPs. Why would you want physical Pete ? Party because I like stuff (as people who have visited me soon realise!), but mainly, and especially in the case of LPs, I like the ritual of it. |
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Post by Clive on Apr 4, 2024 19:09:07 GMT
Why would you want physical Pete ? Party because I like stuff (as people who have visited me soon realise!), but mainly, and especially in the case of LPs, I like the ritual of it. To many it doesn’t matter but to others physical provides some soul. There is no right or wrong, just preferences. |
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Post by orange55 on Apr 6, 2024 9:38:48 GMT
I was fortunate to enough to be able to start again in 2018. It included gutting the whole room as I wanted to hide all the kit. I dropped the cd player and went for streaming, local and tidal at the time.
Been a good journey bringing the streaming up to quality. Dropping tidal obviously helped.
I had to start the design in 2017, so a lot of the network infrastructure I use today to make the streaming magic happen didn’t exist back then. So I am a little tight on space now. Plus the knowledge I have from forums like this, means I would probably have just made a little more shelf space but that is the only change. Ah one thing I would have bought SR Orange fuses earlier if I had discovered this forum sooner. 😀
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Post by orange55 on Apr 6, 2024 11:56:14 GMT
I should add the only thing that I kept was the amp, the rest got sold. That amp was now gone also.
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Post by robbiegong on Apr 8, 2024 13:30:21 GMT
There is no right or wrong, necessarily, just preferences, as has been said.
I wouldnt be without my tt/vinyl and cd/cdp - sound is sensational to my ears and works for me.
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Post by xiana on May 19, 2024 15:03:08 GMT
For me, it's all about the source. I mean, if the source ain't right, no amount of fancy mains supply or conditioners can fix it. Vinyl has its charm, sure, but streaming is just so convenient nowadays.
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