You wouldn't like my music room then!In my view open shelves are "clutter." That stuff should all be behind doors!
I found years ago the more cluttered my room the better the sound.
You wouldn't like my music room then!In my view open shelves are "clutter." That stuff should all be behind doors!
I am extremely surprised to read this.I’d almost prefer this. I’m at least old enough to have experience with cassettes! Besides that, a good Type IV tape and Dolby S noise reduction sounds close enough to a CD for me; not that either of those things help in a day and age where no one produces metal tape and Dolby won’t license their noise reduction anymore.
I see this but that is a problem of people and short-termism not digital.
It did. It may be that the music I like is either classical, and track hopping a symphony would be barmy, or stuff I have liked for a long time and I find most musicians I like are worth giving the benefit of listening to their whole work, whether Frank Zappa or Judy Collins.I agree Frank, but you have to admit, digital gave us instant track jumping and with that the short attention span/lack of patience for a song you didn't know.
I found years ago the more cluttered my room the better the sound.
I agree Frank, but you have to admit, digital gave us instant track jumping and with that the short attention span/lack of patience for a song you didn't know.
NO, it counts you as a luny.Does listening to the same track on repeat for hours count as a long attention span?
I am extremely surprised to read this.
I used Cassette for years for home recording and with a good quality machine, I have a Nakamichi CR7E, and the best tape, which was expensive, careful setting of levels to minimise tape overload distortion whilst keeping levels high enough for noise not to be intrusive pretty good recordings were possible but even the first digital recorder I used (DAT) was much, much better, in fact its output was pretty well indistinguishable from the microphone feed, which I had never experienced with tape.
Pre-recorded cassettes otoh were truly awful, much, much worse than LPs never mind CD. I can see the attraction of LPs since the SQ isn't bad enough to worry most people but pre-recorded cassette??????????????
I am extremely surprised to read this.
I used Cassette for years for home recording and with a good quality machine, I have a Nakamichi CR7E, and the best tape, which was expensive, careful setting of levels to minimise tape overload distortion whilst keeping levels high enough for noise not to be intrusive pretty good recordings were possible but even the first digital recorder I used (DAT) was much, much better, in fact its output was pretty well indistinguishable from the microphone feed, which I had never experienced with tape.
Pre-recorded cassettes otoh were truly awful, much, much worse than LPs never mind CD.
I cansee the attraction of LPs since the SQ isn't bad enough to worry most people but pre-recorded cassette??????????????
I still use my turntables regularly, but my experience with cassettes mirrors Frank's. I had en extremely well set up Nakamichi, and only used That's metal cassettes, and it did make decent recordings, but the sheer faff of keeping the machine aligned meant I gave it up as soon as a pro quality PCMCIA soundcard (Digigram VX Pocket) became available and I could do better recordings without the faff.A bug, not a feature.
A lot of what I hear is classical. Can't express how much pleasure can be found in playing the entirety of the Well Tempered Klavier without interruption. Or Bruckner symphonies without side changes.
Flipping LPs is a bug, not a feature.
I couldn't agree more. Very often those tracks between the hits in the long run reveal themselves as the better stuff.But seriously you track and channel jumpers, stop and smell the roses. There's excellent stuff going on between the hits.
With vinyl I get to just leave my phone, my ipads, my computer, "unplug" and take a break from computer technology while immersing myself in the music. I find the break to be nourishing.
NO, it counts you as a luny.
At least the awful pre-recorded cassette will be consistently bad. No clicks or pops, no IGD, no off-center cassettes. I'm not defending pre-recorded cassettes [save the Connoisseur Society In Sync cassettes], but it helps to explain why they made significant inroads for music sales in the 1970s/80s as LP quality declined significantly. Once portable CD playback was the norm, it was pretty much "game over" for cassettes. DATs sealed the deal.I cansee the attraction of LPs since the SQ isn't bad enough to worry most people but pre-recorded cassette??????????????
A bug, not a feature.
It did. It may be that the music I like is either classical, and track hopping a symphony would be barmy, or stuff I have liked for a long time and I find most musicians I like are worth giving the benefit of listening to their whole work, whether Frank Zappa or Judy Collins.
I suspect nowadays young musicians start out with a digital rig in the bedroom and have never even thought of assembling an album.
Amen!You wouldn't like my music room then!
I found years ago the more cluttered my room the better the sound.
I suspect the "those of us" to whom you refer is just you.And for THOSE OF US who experience a more desultory listening experience when using digital, insofar as vinyl encourages longer listening and more patience in evaluating the body of an artists work on an album, which reaps satisfying rewards, it's a valuable addition to how we listen to our music.