The BLISS of returning to ANALOG: my experience

Plato,

As you said, this forum is for people to exchange experiences and ideas, and all experiences are valid.

Fact: we stopped listening - literally - for ten years. Even buying a widely respected and pretty darn good CDP didn't solve the problem. Buying a TT did, emphatically.

That experience warrants this conclusion (for us), LP's are musical and CD's are not. Note I don't claim that LP's are perfect or convenient or insusceptible of improvement. I look forward to the format that will let me utter the words, "perfect sound forever" without holding my nose or stopping my ears. But that format has yet to arrive.

Perhaps your experience differs, but this is Elizabeth's thread, begun out of her joy at a discovery similar to ours. I'd like to help her celebrate. :)

Yes, LP's offer infinite sampling . . .

Elizabeth -

I am recently in the same boat
thank God I saved all my old vinyl in my closet

I just bought a Nottingham spacedeck and couldn't be happier

the digital is so much more true to the source

now to save up for a VPI cleaner
any good ways to tame ticks and pops pre machine?

I bought a London Decca dry brush to clean with

I have already amassed about 200 albums for little over $400 including a few pricey 200 g (new Steely Dan and Peter Gabriel) recordings and some Japanese pressing on ebay

my record store owner hates that I now spend $25 via vinyl instead of $100 on cds a week and walk away with more music to listen to

flea markets hear me coming

oh the joys of analog

Elizabeth: So what CD player did you have ? Was it a Nak, Revox or Kyocera ? From what i can remember, those were the first CD players to come close to or break the $1K bracket. Based on those memories, these machines were all WAY better sounding than the others available at the time.

Other than that, i think that each format has strong and weak points. I'd like to combine the best of each into one format that is both convenient, reliable and easy to store and maintain. Since i don't know of anything like that, i guess that i'll stick with a system(s) that is capable of working with either format and trying to achieve the best that both can deliver in a "somewhat affordable" manner. Sean
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I've nothing new to add to this old and somewhat stale debate forming over CD vs vinyl, however as I type I'm listening to my Tivoli radio which is playing Barbers Violin Concerto, and I'm transported. I guess I should call the station and see if this is a LP or a CD. But then, in my view, its always going to be about the music!