Without a whole lotta tweaking CDs can’t really compete with much. The three basic necessities are mechanical isolation - isolate the player, isolate everything! - stiffening and damping of the disc Itself and first and foremost: elimination of the scattered background laser light. Then you’d have a fighting chance. As fate would have it I sell the only comprehensive solution to the scattered light problem and have The Mystery Tweak for problem no. 2 but can’t reveal it; otherwise it wouldn’t be a mystery, would it? Even cassettes have a great many variables, it’s never easy!
One final thought: there are no absolutes. Everything is relative - A. Einstein
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TweedleDee and TweedleDum 👯♂️
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et tu, brute? I thought we was buds. 😢
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Whacko alert! 🚨 Nurse! Thorazine! Man down!
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roberttdid, if you’re trying to prove you’re mildly retarded you’re doing an excellent job.
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You’re cute when you get all worked up. I’m thinking of promoting you to Junior Stalker. Do you mind if I call you roberttdidn’t? How about roberttcan’t? |
Carver supposedly replicated a tube amplifier using a solid state amplifier. If you believe that one I’ve got some swamp land to sell you. At least get the story straight.
I see roberttdid/roberttcan/atdavid/whoever is still stalking and trolling me. Welcome to my stable, Mr. Smarty Pants 👖 |
It’s just that I don’t believe in reading a lot of pseudo intellectual, pseudo authoritative jibber jabber. I have other things to do, pal. Only 94 posts and you’re already stalking me and giving out free pseudo scientific advice like a regular. Not counting all the other names you had here before, of course. Mr. Roberttdid, Mr. Roberttcan, Mr. Atdavid, Mr. Whiner, whoever. Keep trolling, maybe eventually someone will buy into your brand of jibber jabber. |
I got as far as, “I honestly believe...”
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You can forget about all the technical arguments and philosophical mumbo jumbo. All you really need to do is listen. It’s like buying a TV. You get the one with the best picture in your price range. It’s not exactly brain surgery. 🧠 God gave you one mouth and two ears for a reason.
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My guess off the top of my head is you’re in luck. 🤗
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As I’ve been saying lo these many months something is lost during the digital process of converting from analog but it’s not (rpt not) because of sampling or any such thing. It’s because the CD laser cannot read the data on the CD completely or accurately. But the data is all there on the CD. You just can’t retrieve it properly. However, I can hear what’s on the CD because I have solved the riddle of the Sphinx. I’m from the future where those problems no longer exist. Once you hear what’s actually on the CD it will freak you out. 😩 |
I don’t think you realize I’m on your side, dude. Hel-loo! 🤗 |
Can you please tell it to go back in?
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At last, an authority! Two in a row! 🤗 Someone even thinks this is a religious argument. What next, controlled double blind testing? 😩 |
rrcpa34 @cd318
Digital is measurably better than analogue by any known yardstick
This is known as ostentatious ignorance. >>>>How so? Signal to Noise ratio is measurably much better. Dynamic Range is measurably much better. A lot depends on the source material, what with the loudness wars and everything. It also depends on WHERE THE MEASUREMENT IS MADE. It’s not 🍏 and 🍎 But all things being equal digital measures better. |
A good cassette from the mid 80s to mid 90s, on naked Grado SR-60 headphones sounds very close to electrostatic speakers in terms of dynamics and speed. Awesome, dude! Get the ones on Capitol, Elektra, Virgin, Atlantic, I.R.S., Reprise, MCA, and others.
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My professional portable SONY cassette player with naked Grado SR-60 headphones provides a surprisingly high percentage of the sound of original master tapes. I find myself turning around, startled, thinking someone is standing behind me. So dynamic! Real, baby!
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Or you could skip all the hassle and expense and go with a portable cassette player and some good headphones. Nothing wrong with them apples 🍎 in these stressful, cash strapped times. Just about the time cassettes stopped production they had figured out how to make fantastic sounding cassettes. Tape is a natural medium. It breathes.
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Portable cassette players will do until something better gets here. I’m currently listening to a Sony Professional portable cassette player. Made in Japan. Accept no substitutes. 🤗
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Tape is a natural medium. It breathes. Tape has sparkle, air, warmth and musicality, you know, things that are conspicuously absent from tape’s digital brethren. Exceptions some digitally remastered cassettes such as the 1994 Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin remasters, digitally remastered Country Joe and the Fish on Vanguard.
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