Back in the early cd days, I was anxious to replace my vinyl with the perfect sound forever, zero surface noise discs that were promised. Too anxious, as I dumped well over a thousand albums (some that have never come out on cd), and my turntable (SME tonearm, Dynavector Moving Coil cartridge) before much of what I needed to replace my records even existed in cd form. And I was quite pissed to find out how unnatural acoustic piano sounded on just about any digital sources - almost as if the waveforms had been rounded off.
So now years later, with an Oppo and SACDs, I have the piano sounds I was after 30 years ago with zero surface noise...at $30-70 a disc. Is this progress? Or are the "new" vinyl releases better quality than what we got for $3.99 at Korvettes back in 1976?
So now years later, with an Oppo and SACDs, I have the piano sounds I was after 30 years ago with zero surface noise...at $30-70 a disc. Is this progress? Or are the "new" vinyl releases better quality than what we got for $3.99 at Korvettes back in 1976?