Death of High Fidelity
Most of my friends know that I'm an analog man. Digital is taking over the world and truth be told, not all of it is great, especially when it comes to audio. I'm a die hard. I do listen to CD's but my CD player has vacuum tubes in it. My stereo amp is all tube as well. A well played vinyl LP is out of this world. With my system I hear music that is so 3D and real that it makes you believe the artist is standing in front of you - right there, 5 feet away.
I'm not a fan of compression in the digital world at all. MP3's are handy, but they suck when it comes to sound quality. Just came across this article, it explains what I mean...
You know it really is sad that 99% of people haven't heard high fidelity audio.
"The age of the audiophile is over."
Not in my studio, not in mine...
posted by Jeremy Dueck @ 9:22 PM
5 Comments:
Hey, maybe when you've returned from your tropical retreat, you'll contribute to The Vinyl Restoration Project. You've gotta have a missing album or two or three that you'd like to have back in your collection, no?
Darrell
My brother Lowell has all the great old vinyl. Stuff that I can't find in CD or even MP3 rips of.
Remember the "Bill Mason Band - No Sham!", or "Malcolm something?? - Red Alert", or how about "Rev Counta and the Speedos".
All that great early Christian Rock and New Wave. He has some truly rare LPs. I believe he even has some early U2 on vinyl - Boy, October, and War.
I was trying to collect all of DA (Daniel Amos) CD's to replace the home taped versions of my brother's LP's. Guess what? most of their CD's are out of print and not likely to be making more. The record labels are giving DA huge grief in not letting them press more.
The funny thing is that as a kid - I had no idea that I was listening to a band that pressed maybe 1000 - 25000 records and that one day you would not be able to find them ever again.
Late last year I went crazy searching for some of these "lost" treasures. Most could not be found. I ended up spending ~$250 on CD's from artists that I thought would be 'nice' to have before they too were all gone. All the purchases were from the artist themselves or from rare online collectors. Many were from lots of less than a 100 left.
We are losing an ugly game where digital is wiping away history - and the little guys are getting lost.
I find it very sad.
Malcolm & The Mirrors - yeah, I do remember those guys. Funny: you're keen on collecting the CDs, while I'm seriously thinking about buying back some of my old vinyl.
Actually I have a good number on vinyl too. I'm starting to collect the missing albums as well - but that tends to come from eBay. Not my favorite place to shop.
As for Bill Mason or Rev Counta, I have never seen a CD, LP, MP3 or tape of them. I guess the best I can hope for is to record my brother's vinyl to CD.
A lot of my taped cassettes of vinyl are showing their age. I have around 400 albums recorded as such and wanted to add/replace with CD or MP3 (or LP). That is when I realized that it was next to impossible to get some of the stuff I have.
So the tape deck still is a part of my system.
Loved the tube amp. I realize that I usually turn my amp way up in order to fully hear most tones and ranges. I also notice that after a while of doing this, it's time to turn the music down cause it's annoying for it to be loud. It's tiring. Steph notices this all the time.
Hearing your amp was amazing. At moderate volumes, you hear all tones...everything! So much that you don't have to crank it up loud. Makes complete sense that you only need a few watts. I told Steph about this and had her sold almost
immediately. She's highly sensitive to loud sounds and noises and gets
very tired from the music experience...even though she's a music lover. Then I told her the dollar amount of the amp and that pretty much ended that conversation.
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