newton_john
Responses from newton_john
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) @atmasphere Thank you. It’s good to hear that confirmed by someone with personal experience. Your contributions here are highly valued. | |
| Linn users, what is your preference for your platter mat? Owned LP12s for nearly forty years and always used the same felt mat they came with. | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) @rauliruegas Yes, it’s possible that some systems may be optimal for either vinyl or digital formats. However, it can’t be the whole story. I find my preference for vinyl is not system dependent. It’s there with both budget and high end set ups ... | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) @stealthdeburgo I find it interesting that you mention both processing and compression. These were two big factors in me getting back into vinyl after a hiatus of four years. I regard that time as a failed experiment and a big misstep. My origin... | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) In response to @russbutton’s somewhat crotchety negative points about vinyl records, here are a few positives that come to mind: I can listen to vinyl records all night without fatigue There’s a vinyl club at my local pub We have great indepe... | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) @russbutton The problem with your argument here is that value is whatever you deem it to be. You’re quite entitled to your opiniin on this, but unfortunately it tells us nothing about the subject of this thread. | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) @russbutton I don’t doubt your PC/DAC combo is quite good, but so would be a turntable of similar cost. Although the loudspeakers make a big difference to the character of the sound, it is the source that makes the most difference to the sound ... | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) @russbutton That’s a bizarre comparison you’re suggesting there. Surely a more meaningful comparison would involve turntables and streamers of equal cost, whether at budget or high end. You’re conflating the comparison of vinyl versus streaming... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @richardbrand Fascinating Richard. It’s almost like everything is connected in some weird way. I also had experience of X-ray crystallography in a small way in the lab when studying Physics in the seventies at what is now the University of Westm... | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) @mambacfa I agree with you in as far as that vinyl usually sounds better than digital formats or at least I prefer it. However, it’s not true that digital is an approximation. It can exactly reproduce the original waveform of the music on recon... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @richardbrand No wonder it’s expensive. Yes, I remember struggling at university with text book representations of three dimensional structures. It’s probably easier now with YouTube, etc. | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @richardbrand You might find what you’re looking for here. https://docs.linn.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Karousel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond-like_carbon Hope that helps. | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @jasonbourne71 The CD12 was great back in its heyday. If anyone still wants one, Peter Tyson are selling one for about £4,000. I heard it a few months ago against a Klimax DSM/3 Hub and a Klimax LP12. Sadly, the CD12 was outclassed by the new... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @mylogic Hero worship? Don’t think so. On the one hand, he did great work promoting the importance of the source in hifi. On the other, he’s a Conservative. So feet of clay for me. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-11484322 | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade Since all you guys love Linn Products and the LP12 so much, I am sure you’ll want to wish Ivor Tiefenbrun a happy 79th birthday. Here is a little bit on him that I lifted from Facebook. “Born on March 18, 1946, Tiefenbrun founded Linn in Glasgow,... |