Popular Post AVphile Posted July 14, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted July 14, 2019 Over the past four months, I have spent a lot of money (for me) incorporating a decent music streamer/DAC into my audio system which heretofore had been primarily CD- and secondarily vinyl-based. The playback equipment for both is of good quality, but the ease of using CDs as my "go-to" music source has led my turntable to gather dust. More recently, with the ability to utilize Roon and Tidal, my CD playback equipment has also been relegated -- most of the time -- to dust collection. Yesterday, just for the hell of it, I decided to compare the vinyl to streamed versions of two songs -- For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield and Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac -- in a real time A to B switching experiment. The result was really depressing; the streamed versions were good, but the vinyl version of each sounded even better. I am hard pressed to assign the reason for this as being due to poorer vs. better equipment. My current audio system represents an investment costing more than $100K, and I have been careful in my purchases of its components. Also, in my experiment, I made certain that I was using the same (based on album cover) recording for each version. All I can say is that the vinyl version of each track sounded more "life-like". Maybe it was due to the underlying frequency response spectrum of my vinyl playback components in comparison to those of my music streamer/DAC; specifically, that perhaps the vinyl version had a gain boost in the "presence" region that I heard as more exciting. I really don't know. Regardless, this was the outcome I neither expected nor wanted. Doak and Teresa 1 1 Link to comment
Popular Post AVphile Posted September 10, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted September 10, 2019 Actually, One and a half may have a point. I doubt that any electron has every received a bath in the nearly 14 billion years (or less) since its formation. Clearly, over that extended period of time even the most fastidious electron is going to become soiled. What's worse is what all those electrons must be doing to any audiophile's cabling -- both inside and between components. Unfortunately, this serious problem must be more pervasive than One and a half proposes. Unless I am mistaken, analog signals also are subjected to the same putrification. On the bright side, this is an indisputable reason for purchasing all new audio equipment at least annually! Ralf11, The_K-Man and Soothsayerman 1 2 Link to comment
AVphile Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 Isn't it time to end these humorless jabs? I recently joined this site, so perhaps bickering is the common practice here, but I was hoping that discourse, regardless of whether one concurred or disagreed, would be civil -- and constructive. Hopefully, no one will take offense at my remark. :) Teresa 1 Link to comment
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