Post by KeithL on Jun 6, 2022 9:52:34 GMT -5
That's exactly how I remember it...
Carefully remove vinyl from sleeve... hoping it was still flat and clean.
Carefully place on turntable.
Get out the D'stat, and the cleaner, and carefully clean the record.
Check it to make sure.
Maybe a shot from the Zerostat if it was a dry day...
Gently lower the arm...
And it sounds great...
(For a whole 20 minutes... with luck.)
Then... BANG!... a tick.
Get up, clean the record again, restart the track...
With luck no more tick...
Or... BANG! again...
Get up...
Clean again...
Try again...
And hope it isn't going to end in a trip to the record store for a new copy.
No thanks....
Been there; done that.
I'll stick to hi-res files that play perfectly almost every time.
And I can run a checksum if I even suspect that they might not be perfect.
(And, if one day I do hear a tick, I KNOW it isn't in the file, so it WILL be gone the next time.)
Maybe Vinyl cannot compete with lossless audio. But its nowhere near as fun
The way you worded that, I wasn’t sure which one you thought was MORE fun, but I assume you mean records are more fun.
I would only add that as with most things of interest, FUN is a matter of perception.
For years I spun records because there was nothing else and the “fun” came AFTER the the cleaning, the Dstat.,and whatever else it took to RUN, over to the infamous sweet spot for a maximum of around 20 minutes (or a few more at times).
So, to that end (on a personal level) all the fun comes from basking in high fidelity uninterrupted for, at times as long as 3 hours. That is a LOT of fun! (Try that with a “LP”) which in and of itself has become an oxymoron.