I have listened to some of the best turntables on the planet, clear audio statement, continuum labs, rock port series 3 (hope I remember all those names correctly).
what always bothered me even with quite new records was the noise levels namely pops and clicks. I can also always hear some tracking distortions from the needle going through the groove. Guess many people are not sensitive to these things because they have grown up with these noises and consider digital less musical because these things are missing.
That analog sounds as good as it does is quite surprising to me considering how much eq is applied before the lp is cut and after playback. Also when thinking about through how many amplification stages this tiny signal has to travel com pared to digital.
Just my personal opinion. to each his own!
what always bothered me even with quite new records was the noise levels namely pops and clicks. I can also always hear some tracking distortions from the needle going through the groove. Guess many people are not sensitive to these things because they have grown up with these noises and consider digital less musical because these things are missing.
That analog sounds as good as it does is quite surprising to me considering how much eq is applied before the lp is cut and after playback. Also when thinking about through how many amplification stages this tiny signal has to travel com pared to digital.
Just my personal opinion. to each his own!