music in the shed

Vinyl still beats digital for true 'Hi Fidelity' hands down and probably always will!

If you are willing to go through all the ball ache of setting up a turntable, spending loads of money on super-sensitive cartridges etc. etc. then you will be rewarded with a rich and punchy sound like no other.

You must factor in all the pops and crackles if dust gets on your record though!

Have a look here: https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question487.htm

 
Gerald said:
You are old school, aren't you? :D
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Of course I am. For example three guys running motorcycle department on largest vehicle museum in Finland. Actually it is largest if counted in number of vehicles. These three guys are me, my father who for example founded first finnish Laverda club in 1976 with one another bloke and this third guy is friend of my father who he met at mid 1960's. This third guy is for example one of the founders of finnish Moto Guzzi club.

I am also for example one of the mechanics and drivers for Mannerheim's 1926 Marmon E75.
Yes I like stuff and thoughts from time when there was no need to "piss while running". This is finnish phrase which means
there's too much hurry to do anything properly. There's actually many people of my age who desire "real things" in contrary to plastic sound of SVD packed digital music and everything that kind of fake stuff. I think the fake stuff starts to be old-fashioned on some manner and that museum stuff has many things that can be learned from it and can even be adapted to modern products and lifestyle.
 
SimonR501 said:
Vinyl still beats digital for true 'Hi Fidelity' hands down and probably always will!

If you are willing to go through all the ball ache of setting up a turntable, spending loads of money on super-sensitive cartridges etc. etc. then you will be rewarded with a rich and punchy sound like no other.

You must factor in all the pops and crackles if dust gets on your record though!

Have a look here: https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question487.htm
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I think it is possible to do much better sound with digital recording but it needs very good equipment and better formats than widely used today (and not just more bits used or higher sampling rate). Most problematic are the analog to digital and digital to analog conversions. I have found for example that most of those cheap CD-players and PC sound cards don't even run out sinusoidal waveform when playing 20 kHz sinus from high quality test discs. This can be easily experimented with oscilloscope. Signal reconstruction errors on that technology are not widely understood even today and I think it is the main problem.

It is also said that CD's has sound room of 96 decibels. Yes but if you record sinusoidal wave form on -96 dB sound level it comes out as square wave. Added dither noise doesn't solve the problem entirely.

Addition: I still don't even try to say the old is somehow overall better, for example most of the vinyls don't sound well (the audiophiles do), but it is interesting to found that the new and old technology has different limits. And both technologies have also limits which can not be found from each other's. Also the c-cassette system on my car is quite worse, but on audiophile systems it is possible to reach good sound quality with c-cassettes on limited circumstances which actually needs a lot of work.
More like 1/4" or 1/2" tape recording would reach very good sound quality.
 
NAD. Not a super special one, but serves me well with decent Wharfedale speakers. I bought that album on a whim about 4 years ago new for about $40. It goes for over $400 now. One day my kids will sell all my albums. I hope they buy the elusive SFC in my memory.  ???
 
For us in the old country - there is a three hour Old Grey Whistle test program on the BBC 4 tonight at 9.00 - should be good - for those that have never heard of it - its a legendary music program which shaped the choice of music for many during the 70 s and 80s  8) 
 
Sir Sidney Ruffdiamond said:
For us in the old country - there is a three hour Old Grey Whistle test program on the BBC 4 tonight at 9.00 - should be good - for those that have never heard of it - its a legendary music program which shaped the choice of music for many during the 70 s and 80s  8)
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Which we used to get on Auntie out here in the colonies  :LOL:

Absolutely loved it, some great bands.
 
Old Grey Whistle test is the main reason I installed a mother of a Sat dish on my roof in order to receive BBC4.
YouTube etc. doesn't even have a fraction of the "good" stuff BBC4 airs on TV. :D
 
rowdypat said:
Orange is best  :D
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Just round Laverda sticker missing from it ;)

I have two turntables.
First is old JVC with AKG cartridge. It is for Hifi use, but the player is not that good at all as the cartridge.
Second is B&O from 1967 for playing 78 speed or elder or worser condition records.
 
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - Dust My Blues - 1966
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQfZqFBXg9w

John Mayall and Mick Taylor - I Can't Quit You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwkxy2cxYg8

Woodstock - Ten Years After - I'm Going Home(Live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW5M5xljdCI

Ten Years After - I want to know (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpRAL0swOIo

Ten Years After - Feel It For Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q55sUnq8nIE

Ten Years After - Hear Me Calling (LP Stonedhenge)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biM7yobcI50

Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ripM2IbXWWA
 
Working on projects other than the Laverda last weekend, unfortunately but powered through my tasks to the music of Hoodoo Gurus

 
One of favorite bands, mainly due to the wide range of genre they were capable of:

Like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTtmjn2QqNo&list=PLm9smEh4bd5g7N-DmQCEXnGFwRibVfnVL&index=3

to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivl1rZBpeGU



 
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