Well, you'll learn something genuinely useful that way about digital and vinyl playback. Plus, trust me, it'll sort the wheat from the chaff, in terms of the T/Ts used, too!
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Anyone one with Roy Orbison in dreams on vinyl, play blue bayou, it's a track with quiet passages that showcase Roy's voice, that in the room sound with reverb that sounds natural. Listening on Spotify it doesn't come close, lifeless and the reverb sounds fake.
Bakoon 13r Denon DP80 Stax UA-70 Shure Ultra 500 in a Martin Bastin body with jico stylus, project ds2 digital Rullit aero 8 field coils in tqwt speakers
Office system, DIY CSS fullrange speakers with aurum cantus G2 ribbons yulong dac Sony STR6055 receiver Jvc QL-A51 direct drive turntable, Leema sub. JVC Z4S cart is in the house
Garage system another Sony receiver, cassette deck
System components are subject to change without warning and at the discretion of the owner.
I have fallen down that rabbit hole Marco where you can get vinyl and Digital to sound the same. The trick is to find a recording where this happens. I did this with an Agnes Obel album and could not tell the difference between the two, however on most other stuff when you compare the vinyl version to the digital version the differences become very apparent.
Main system : VPI Scout 1.1 / JMW 9T / 2M Black / Croft 25R+ / Croft 7 / Heco Celan GT 702
Second System : Goldring Lenco GL75 / AT95EX / Pioneer SX590 / Spendor SP2
As well as vinyl Vs CD, a Raspberry Pi type device needs to enter as well, as Imthink that these are the nail in the coffin of the CD player.
Kevin
Too busy enjoying the music....
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Oh man I love that sentiment. That is exactly what producing prints in a darkroom is about. The prints I made were on Agfa Record Rapid exhibition grade chlorobromide paper that whilst still wet was archivally treated. I could guarantee that these prints would never fade in my lifetime or indeed any offspring's lifetime. I wonder how many people could say that about a digital print..? Maybe a monochrome print made using carbon based inks.
Lasting memories indeed, way beyond my lifetime.
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