prof,
Your inclination to keep things "proper and pure" is understandable. In theory, I am that way. In practice, some records I would have liked to listen to again (after a decades-long hiatus) had to be digitized regardless of the audiophile-approved result. Cars, Walkman for planes, and all that. None of which is audiophile environment, but I cannot change it. The semi-perfectionist worm inside made me go for DSD but that is the only concession.
Which all reminds me that, once upon a time, there were record players for cars. And now we babble about minutia of the records meant to be played in them. We should ask kids who had dates in those cars listening to those records how they are really supposed to sound. I bet they were as low-fi as they could get and as exciting as anything we have these days, or more.
Your inclination to keep things "proper and pure" is understandable. In theory, I am that way. In practice, some records I would have liked to listen to again (after a decades-long hiatus) had to be digitized regardless of the audiophile-approved result. Cars, Walkman for planes, and all that. None of which is audiophile environment, but I cannot change it. The semi-perfectionist worm inside made me go for DSD but that is the only concession.
Which all reminds me that, once upon a time, there were record players for cars. And now we babble about minutia of the records meant to be played in them. We should ask kids who had dates in those cars listening to those records how they are really supposed to sound. I bet they were as low-fi as they could get and as exciting as anything we have these days, or more.