30-May-2016, 18:54
(30-May-2016, 09:45)Will Wrote: What about the category - I used to own one many years ago - and got rid of it (and my 1500 lps) with the advent of digital music (CDs at the time). It is such a joy to listen to music without snap crackle and pop and with full, uncompressed dynamic-range. (I remember, at the time, listening to Shostakovich Symphony No 5 - third movement - and did not have to artificially boost the volume to hear the detail - a veil had been lifted - to quote the advertising hype of the time.)
I was amused, that when I was buying my latest hi fi setup (which included the Devialet), the young sales guys were pushing turntables. I told them that I got over turntables in 1983 - Before they were born!
The time I used to spend on caring for and cleaning my lps, and cleaning and adjusting styluses, I now spend on listening to the music
I have 4 turntables but don't play LPs often. I didn't do a big sell off of LPs when I went into CD, and do regret selling any...
Record players are the only bit of a hifi system where I have expertise, having worked at Garrard R&D dept in the 70s, so I know all the strengths and weaknesses of LP replay. The amusing fact is that the greatest strength is that most of the weaknesses are euphonic!
Devialet Original d'Atelier 44 Core, Job Pre/225, Goldmund PH2, Goldmund Reference/T3f /Ortofon A90, Goldmund Mimesis 36+ & Chord Blu, iMac/Air, Lynx Theta, Tune Audio Anima, Goldmund Epilog 1&2, REL Studio. Dialog, Silver Phantoms, Branch stands, copper cables (mainly).
Oxfordshire
