Jimbos Audio ramblings

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

Why do you still buy CDs Grant? I thought you were all-in with the streaming these days.

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well i stream but also steam my own library.. also i like the back up of cds. ive hundreds of them and if i needed to could go back to a cd player

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

Not sure that's going to happen Martin. The wider world (young folk) don't think like us dinosaurs, and will keep on with streaming/file-based, because it's a better fit for their lifestyles. They want the convenience, and have only a passing interest in SQ, where their smartphones and bluetooth earbuds and smart speakers are more than adequate. CDs (and records) are too much of an encumberence.

I predict that the vinyl bubble will burst, and sellers will be forced to stop taking the piss. And I'll be there with cash ready :) And CDs will continue to be the great VFM that they are.

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I'm not saying it will come back as a mass-market thing but as a desirable niche format like vinyl is now.

Seems to me if youngsters are buying vinyl as its retro and cool they will do the same with CD.

Just the fact that it's a physical format - they are not used to that so it has novelty, and its cheap enough second hand to be attractive. Just like vinyl was up to about ten years ago.


Anyway time will tell.

Yes Album art can be very cool and nice to be able to read it without a microscope!

Flicking through some vinyl....

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Nice.

All about the improved sound quality of course. :D

Sitting waiting to spin some tunes tonight and listening to the hiss and hum as the system warms up! I bet this would drive some OCD audiophiles mad?

At least I know the system is on:lol:

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Originally Posted by Jimbo

Sitting waiting to spin some tunes tonight and listening to the hiss and hum as the system warms up! I bet this would drive some OCD audiophiles mad?

At least I know the system is on:lol:

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You're not wrong there Jim - it would drive me nuts.
I have used valve amplification in the past (Quad II/22 and Radford STA15/III), and neither made any noise whilst warm up.

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Originally Posted by Barry

You're not wrong there Jim - it would drive me nuts.
I have used valve amplification in the past (Quad II/22 and Radford STA15/III), and neither made any noise whilst warm up.

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Its just a bit of tube rush and toroids buzzing in the amps. Can't hear any of it when the music is playing at 90dB:lol:

My system buzz's a little then calms down and then is virtually silent apart from some Tx hum from the amp and a very very faint hum through the speakers. All goes when playing music and strangely things do improve markedly when the systems been on for a couple of hours you can hear even less hum/buzz.

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Originally Posted by Wakefield Turntables

My system buzz's a little then calms down and then is virtually silent apart from some Tx hum from the amp and a very very faint hum through the speakers. All goes when playing music and strangely things do improve markedly when the systems been on for a couple of hours you can hear even less hum/buzz.

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Yes funnily my system really sounds at its best a couple of hours in.