[sdiy] Nifty Slider/Fader alert

[James Patchell]

At 08:45 PM 6/5/2004 +0200, Rude 66 wrote:
> > Where I'm sorry I no longer have the titles from my collection on vinyl...
>I'm not
> > sorry to miss
> > the hiss, wow, pop, and skip of vinyl.
>
>that is still the biggest misconception of vinyl ever. yes, a lot of old
>vinyl sounds crappy. but if you have a decent turntable with needles, the
>vinyl you buy today is of superior quality to the old pressings. even though
>they still use the old technology, they develop as well. today they have
>crackle-free coloured vinyl, for example. if maintained well and played with
>decent needles, it should last a crackle-free lifetime.

         I am sorry, but I am afraid I am going to have to agree with Glen 
on this one....of all the vinyl pressings I had, I can remember only one 
that was crackle free.  You can make up all kinds of excuses up for vinyl, 
but the fact is, when compact disk players arrived for the first time at 
the local hi-fi store here (sometime around 1981, if I remember), I 
considered them a gift from the hi-fi gods, and was more than willing to 
pay the $900 that they cost back then (and that was for what would these 
days be considered a piece of crap).  The market place, I would say, has 
proved the point, just as right now, DVD is rapidly replacing video tape, 
CD's replaced both cassette tapes and phonograph records because CD's are a 
good product.

         But that is also what is great about the world, you don't like 
CD's, then heck, don't buy them.  Who knows, maybe the best vinyl pressing 
is much better that the best CD pressing, but you know, I never saw 
one.  My worst CD is tons better than the best vinyl I ever purchased.

>we've compared the masters on our vynalogica label with the vinyl release.
>the cd was cut to vinyl with a neumann machine, pultec eq's, etc. the vinyl
>sounds much better, warmer and fuller than the original cd master.. in the
>right hands this equipment can really make a difference.
>
>buy yourself a decent not too expensive dj turtable and a good element/
>needle. stuff like pink floyd is freshly pressed on vinyl again, last year
>they did a beautuful DSOTM 30th anniversary. also all kraftwerk vinyl is
>repressed again for all you old timers..;-)
>
>r./

         -Jim
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