I am a "Moron"





And I will tell you why I am a moron. First I have gone through a great deal of effort and expense, to get playback of my vinyl collection utilizing my PC to sound identical to just playing a record.

There was much discussion and debate about this on the PC forum, in regard as to how to accomplish this feat. Essential, was the "computer analog interface", plus you had to change some of the cards in your PC; which kind of PC didn't matter. Many people knowledgeable of various interfaces submitted their solutions; while mine is not the most expensive, it gets the same results as those which are more expensive because it's heavily modified with the most expensive "Nichicon capacitors".

Everyone testified that there was not one iota of difference between playing a record, and listening to playback through the PC.

I also read of an account of an audiophile who could afford almost anything. He belonged to an audio club that met once a month; it was the kind that discussed the merits of Koetsu Coral stone, over other equally fine cartridges, while sipping vintage wine. They were devoted to the best tone arms and turntables as well.

This audiophile had everything except time. He read where he could down load his vinyl to PC, and enjoy the same playback without handling his precious records. Naturally he was skeptical, but no less than "Stereophile" assured him this was possible. After accomplishing this feat, he no longer played his records, but enjoyed them the new way.

When it was his turn to host the meeting, he did not divulge this, but continued to engage in the conversation as though he was still experimenting with tone arms, cartridges and etc. I believe if he had revealed his secret, he would have been banned from the club.

The reason I say I am a moron is because I have tried more than once to share my knowledge on the "Analog forum", to be completely and emphatically rejected.

Anyone who does the same thing numerous times expecting different results, is a moron; especially when they get the same results each time.


orpheus10
When I interjected with what's your point I really meant don't bow down to luddites who will not listen to anything but vinyl and be assured that you are probably listening to superior technical sound and they are the morons. Remember also that with the introduction of the long play record for years afterwards there were people who woulld not listen to anything but 78s. So just enjoy your music your way and leave them to play with their toys.
Thank you much Jim.  

What they don't realize, is the fact that it's all "analog"; digital is pure noise, that would be the sound before it goes through the digital to analog converter.  

The quality of the sound, "analog", depends as always on the quality of the equipment; they are comparing one analog to another analog and don't even know it.

I don't even think they know movies are single frames of film moving past a light projector.

When they talk on the phone, they have no idea that their conversation has been changed to very high frequency that goes to a micro wave tower, then transmitted to another tower that send it to the phone company where it is decoded back into "analog", or normal voice.

People who know PC, no longer respond to posts like mine; the "Ana logerites" respond on both forums; but when you have something akin to a religion, you got to keep it going.

Just having fun.

Markum, that's what I do, "Just enjoy the music" without handling my precious records, except for the time I file them into the hard drive.

My mistake was to try and inform those on another forum who don't know it's possible to enjoy the same quality of play back, and no longer handle your records, plus enjoying the convenience of programming them in any order you like.

Knowledgeable people on this forum have already known that for some time.
Plenty of knowledgeable people on this forum stress over relative room humidity, cable burn in, iTunes vs Amarra, power conditioners, third party power cables, the characteristics of wood species for vibration isolation, etc etc.

We should never expect to have truly objective conversations here. If someone can readily tell the difference between birch and ash wood isolation feet then who are we to tell them they can't or that they're nuts?

As long as they don't tell me that I should hear the difference I'm good with it.

And quite frankly, I don't get the whole vinyl thing myself. So it seems unfair for people with $10,000 TTs who convert to digital and claim it is just as good to poke fun at those with $10,000 TTs who are strictly vinyl and say digital isn't. No one can prove any of it.

The truth is, this hobby is absurd. We might as well face it.