Hey, when you get right down to it, I still can't believe that a speaker can sound like a violin. I think that sense of wonderment was one of the reasons we all gravitated to this stuff at a (usually) young age in the first place. If the kid's got a birthday coming up anytime soon - or even if he doesn't - I say get him a turntable and let him run with it. :-)
The miracle of the turntable?
This afternoon I was finishing up reprogramming my Proceed AVP after the AVP2 upgrade, and I was playing an album to check that I had set up the analog pass-through correctly. As I did, my 8 year old son was watching. He gazed in wonder at the spinning black disc and said:
"I still don't understand how that can make music."
I started to explain the principle of the mechanical movement of the stylus in the grooves, and how the cartridge turned that into electrical signals, and then I stopped and asked: "Do you know how a CD makes music?" He shrugged his shoulders to indicate "No."
It got me to wondering...how is it that a new generation just accepts the fact that they can feed a shiny plastic disc into a tray on a black box and get music, and yet they are dumbfounded by the technology of the LP?
Am I just getting old, or what?
"I still don't understand how that can make music."
I started to explain the principle of the mechanical movement of the stylus in the grooves, and how the cartridge turned that into electrical signals, and then I stopped and asked: "Do you know how a CD makes music?" He shrugged his shoulders to indicate "No."
It got me to wondering...how is it that a new generation just accepts the fact that they can feed a shiny plastic disc into a tray on a black box and get music, and yet they are dumbfounded by the technology of the LP?
Am I just getting old, or what?