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| Fast forward 25 years, what will audio be like? I'll weigh in here, just for fun:the interface will be an optical implant, ala the Google contact lense that was recently mentioned in the news as the next step after Google Glass- you scroll through all available music and make selections with bl... | |
| High end dealers around London, UK? I still have it on my list to visit Definitive a/k/a Living Voice. Cool, Edwardian factory building as showroom/facility. I'm overdue for a trip to the UK, and will try to hit it along with a visit to the Morgan factory in Malvern. PS: Definitive ... | |
| Where to Buy Audiophile Recordings with a Smile Jc: I'm generally in Czarivey's pew on this one, particularly for classic rock records from the 60's and 70's. The original pressings often sound far more lively than the remasters; yes, you have to deal with 'condition,' but as you obviously know... | |
| selling Vinyl I agree that Discogs can be a good place to sell and to buy, but the biggest foible is the tendency of unsophisticated or lazy sellers to post their particular records indiscriminately in the first pressing subpage when what they are offering is a... | |
| Back on Black: LED ZEP 1-3 Phase- agree about the production quality being lackluster. These are not 'audiophile' records. That's why, in my estimation, fans who are into sound quality are on a constant, almost futile quest for the best sounding copies. The 'RL' of II is ki... | |
| Back on Black: LED ZEP 1-3 Son, scroll down a few articles on the home page and you'll see M. Fremer's piece re the Zep reissues. | |
| What's your latest album purchase? First UK press of Floyd's A Nice Pair, which is a two-fer of their first two albums. The matrix numbers on Piper at the Gate are the same as the original pressing, which is now unobtanium. The two-fer, released in the early 70's, is gettable and b... | |
| Top 10 Snafus to avoid when building a good rig The only way I know of to build a system to one's satisfaction is in-home trial. Not always easy for a given component and even when available, does not always allow enough time to live with the component, 'dial it in' (by making other system chan... | |
| Back on Black: LED ZEP 1-3 JKarczmit- if you look at the descriptions on Music Direct, the deluxe LP version of LZ 1 is three LPs, two of which are out-takes or previously unreleased material. LZII and LZIII are two LPs each, and the description says the second LP in each i... | |
| What was your first 'hi-end' system? I had two systems at around the same time, circa 1973-74. Both used a Panny SP 10 table, an Audio-Technica arm, and a variety of cartridges. (I still have the turntable though I haven't used it in decades.)The 'solid state' system used a Quintesse... | |
| Vinyl ratings for audiophiles Phase- In some ways, the more primitive the recording equipment the better the sound: the material just leaps out of the grooves without a hint of stridency. Some examples: the very first pressings of Alice Cooper's Love it to Death on the pink St... | |
| Vinyl ratings for audiophiles I wouldn't throw away those old albums just yet. My experience, with wide access to multiple pressings of the same record, is that the correct early pressing often has a vivid presentation that is lost in later audiophile remasters. Yes, a new pie... | |
| Back on Black: LED ZEP 1-3 Geoff, not sure where that leaves Mothership, which was probably a digital remaster, not of the entire catalog, but certainly within the last 20 years. | |
| Back on Black: LED ZEP 1-3 Lowrider- Siddh, in a posting above quotes from a Rolling Stone article that describes these as mastered from hi-rez digital and I have seen other articles that say the same. For what it's worth, though I am pretty much a dyed in the wool analog g... | |
| Back on Black: LED ZEP 1-3 I pre-ordered the deluxe versions of I-III, largely out of curiosity. I already have multiple pressings of these albums, including for the first album, the 74 Piros/Monarch as well as the Classic 45; for LZII, the vaunted 'RL' ss/narrow side two d... |