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Post subject: Re: Analog Vs. Digital
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 8:05 am
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I grew up in the 60's and 70's listening to vinyl. I've always loved the sound of recordings and vinyl and still prefer it. I went the CD route when they came out and ended up selling my entire collection of around 1500 before the bottom dropped out in the market.

I listen to vinyl as much as possible, but when traveling I go with FLAC recording on an iPod.

I restore old 1950's tube stereos and record players for a hobby and there is an increasing market for them. I see people paying in excess of $400 for old RCA mono tube record players. I've also noticed a trend in the increase of vinyl recordings available. Maybe it's just a marketing ploy since the CD seems to be dying, but I like vinyl so I'm fine with it.

As for guitar amps I have both. My VOX tube amp is my favorite and the better sounding to me. But I also have a Line 6 modeling amp that I enjoy playing around with because of all the pre-set sounds I can load in and easily switch between.

Bottom line, Analog, I prefer vinyl and tubes...

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Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 1:58 pm
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More old vinyl :

Wet Willies first selftitled album

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Post subject: Re: Analog Vs. Digital
Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 3:42 pm
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spacewolf wrote:
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I would suggest doing some research on "Nyquist frequency".
Yes I know what the Nyquist frequency is, thank you. Now I suggest you do some research on oversampling; c.f. Chapter 7 of The Physics of Sound, 3rd ed., by Berg & Stork, for a lengthy discussion of how it improves the audio of CDs.

Save me the bucks and summarize it for us.

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Post subject: Re: Analog Vs. Digital
Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 7:14 pm
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mhowell wrote:
Save me the bucks and summarize it for us.
No. I didn't appreciate the condescension in your previous comment, and I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in obeying your commands or doing your work for you. You have Google at your fingertips.

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Post subject: Re: Analog Vs. Digital
Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 3:31 pm
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spacewolf wrote:
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Save me the bucks and summarize it for us.
No. I didn't appreciate the condescension in your previous comment, and I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in obeying your commands or doing your work for you. You have Google at your fingertips.

Please don't read something into my comments that is not there. Why you want to take my original comments as a personal affront is a complete mystery. There was no condescension intended at all. Some folks never heard of nyquist frequency so I thought I was being helpful.

I made no claim to expertise. As a matter of fact I made it clear that my post contained some parts opinion. If you understand signal processing and need to correct anything I said then please feel free to do so. I have no problem with that at all. I freely admit to a lack of understanding the benefits of over-sampling in a recording context. You likely made a good point but you weren't very helpful. You're not one of those "RTFM" guys are you?

One of the first IC projects I worked on was an ADC. The design had a low intrinsic resolution (I think it was 10 bit) but was clocked in the Mhz range thus achieving higher resolutions compatible with 16-bit audio frequency ranges. I was not the designer but I worked on the verification test benches. So I am slightly familiar with over-sampling and the purposes it serves. It is my opinion that it is much easier, at least when designing ICs, to achieve ADC/DAC resolution requirements with faster clocks than with higher intrinsic resolution. But like I said before, in a recording context I do not understand the advantages.

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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 9:30 am
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I picked up (Bill) Bruford's second album "One of a Kind." It's got Holdsworth on guitar, Jeff Berlin on bass, and Dave Stewart on keyboards (he's under appreciated in the States).

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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 7:22 pm
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I just got a bunch of new CDs. :!:

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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 9:52 pm
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I still have the first King Crimson album on vinyl and I still get goosebumps the size of cantaloupes when I listen to it-especially with headphones on!I don't know if it's some king of deep rooted subconscious need to go back to my youth but I still get a kick out of digging out old albums-even those I have in CD format-and playing them on my almost 40 year old stereo system with the killer monster speaker cabinets that were the preferred means of listening way back then.

I still have my first amplifier which is a Paul that was made in Montreal in 1967 by Pine Electronics.This old amp,despite many years of constant playing and also considerable abuse,still incredibly has the original tubes and over time,it sounds better than it did when new.It now kicks out the most righteous raunchy tones with less than 5 W through the original 8" no name speaker and it sounds unbelievably lush when I put it through one of my 4-12 Marshall cabinets.I guess I'm still an analogue man in a digital world.

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