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The point I tried to make, but apparently without success...

was NOT that vinyl is crap and you all better sell your records a.s.a.p., but was that people like Fremer go to great lengths in criticizing digital, but never go and do the same for vinyl. Or did he?

Vinyl is full of technical compromises and trade-offs, otherwise you would not be able to listen to a single record. Lateral tracking error, VTA and skating force are just the tip of the iceberg. A series of articles about the technical aspects of vinyl would be quite educative, for all parties involved.

I don't think that vinyl survival is due to folks like Fremer. People with large collections will keep them simply because it's too expensive to replace it by CD and too much trouble to record everything to CD. The new kids in town, our own kids that is, think vinyl is funny and nice to look at but then go and download more tracks to their ipod.

Some years ago, when CD recording was not available or extremely expensive, I seriously thought of recording all my records to Mini Disc and then sell them. I decided not to do that and buy a Gyrodec instead, because vinyl playback and related gear has something Mini Disc hasn't. Call it nostalgia.

Faith in audio : I don't believe for one second that rigs like Fremer's are seriously retrieving more information from the LP than less expensive ones. Why should I? Because he tells me so?

E. Geddes' first chapter of his book contains a passage that fully applies here : "Just who or what is one to trust when the nature of audio stuff is fundamentally subjective. There is no guarantee that one author's subjective opinion is any better than another author's or that one expert's opinion is any better than another."

Unless Fremer & Co. are able to back up their opinion on solid non-subjective evidence, it's not more than opinion. My opinion is different, who decides which one's right (or wrong) ?


Klaus

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