Fitzcaraldo215
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Here is something I recently posted at Computer Audiophile. Read it and weep:
The real reason for vinyl is contained in Art Dudley's response to a letter in the current Stereophile:
"To my ears and to my thinking, the phonograph is the only domestic playback source that does not dynamically compress music. I believe this is so because literally every other source component - CD players, DACs, even tape machines - works by modulating electricity originating in that product's power supply. But, in a conventional phonograph, apart from the motor drive, there is no need for a power supply, since the phono cartridge generates its own electrical current."
So, there ya go. Life made simple and (seemingly) logical by the Deputy Editor himself. Electricity = bad, unless used to spin a motor or generated electro-mechanically in the phono cartridge, which apparently has unlimited, undistorted dynamic capability, unlike all those awful power supplies that we use elsewhere. And, of course, the recording, production and pressing chain leading up to that LP in no way compromises the quality of signal, notwithstanding all the power supplies used in that chain. Who knew that the secret sauce was getting rid of power supplies?
But, I can go Art one better by playing Edison cylinders or acoustic 78's via a beautiful, flower-like acoustic horn, all powered by a hand-cranked spring. Talk about lack of dynamic compression in a system requiring no electricity at all! You guys ain't heard nothin' yet. It is the path to the future of high fidelity.
The real reason for vinyl is contained in Art Dudley's response to a letter in the current Stereophile:
"To my ears and to my thinking, the phonograph is the only domestic playback source that does not dynamically compress music. I believe this is so because literally every other source component - CD players, DACs, even tape machines - works by modulating electricity originating in that product's power supply. But, in a conventional phonograph, apart from the motor drive, there is no need for a power supply, since the phono cartridge generates its own electrical current."
So, there ya go. Life made simple and (seemingly) logical by the Deputy Editor himself. Electricity = bad, unless used to spin a motor or generated electro-mechanically in the phono cartridge, which apparently has unlimited, undistorted dynamic capability, unlike all those awful power supplies that we use elsewhere. And, of course, the recording, production and pressing chain leading up to that LP in no way compromises the quality of signal, notwithstanding all the power supplies used in that chain. Who knew that the secret sauce was getting rid of power supplies?
But, I can go Art one better by playing Edison cylinders or acoustic 78's via a beautiful, flower-like acoustic horn, all powered by a hand-cranked spring. Talk about lack of dynamic compression in a system requiring no electricity at all! You guys ain't heard nothin' yet. It is the path to the future of high fidelity.