Re: Audiophilia (was Re: Do Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs Require Linux?)

On 2024-05-25, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:

On 2024-05-25 3:08 a.m., RonB wrote:

On 2024-05-25, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On 25 May 2024 04:33:40 GMT, rbowman wrote:
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CDs? Who said anything about that digital crap? I'm talking about an era
with 20 lb turntables with built in strobe rings so you could get the
speed exactly right. Styli cut from diamonds mined by virgins in South
Africa. Tone arms with verniers on the counterweights so you could get
the tracking force exactly right. Built in spirit levels in case the
world was tilting.  Pure analog, baby.

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And those sharp needles wearing away a little bit more from the delicate
grooves with every play. Not to mention embedding the dust ever deeper
into the soft, yielding plastic, where you can never get it out.
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There’s a reason we normal people left that technology behind in the
1970s. That’s where it belongs.

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And yet it's making a comeback with some audiophiles. I bought a ton of
records when CDs first came out. They were cheap.

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A while back, a friend of mine's husband was trying to sell me on vinyl
as I was buying some of his CDs. He was telling me how the sound is
better, this and that. The entire time, I was reminding myself of the
constant popping I would hear when listening to albums as a kid. The
slightest thing would ruin the sound on that vinyls.
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If the technology were so great, video vinyls wouldn't have bankrupted
RCA in the 1980s.

 That probably had more to do with poor management than the medium, as other
record companies didn't go bankrupt.
 As for popping... that usually happened when records were mistreated... or
warped.