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Re: Hi mikel ... Just looked at your systems ... You're obviously a true audiophile.

Posted by mikel (A) on July 17, 2003 at 18:07:40

In Reply to: Hi mikel ... Just looked at your systems ... You're obviously a true audiophile. posted by Striving for Musical Clarity on July 17, 2003 at 12:13:36:

hi Ken,

thanks, but i'm not sure having nice gear means i know what i'm talking about. i just do my best and call it like i hear it.

i agree that neither of my rooms are of adaquate size to support SOTA multi-channel. my multi-channel reference is a combination of many different rooms i have heard in the last few years......many of which have sounded excellent. Ted Smith's room is one i've recently heard that will be one of the very best (when he gets a few remaining pieces). in all these rooms what i hear is certainly involving and musical, but there is a fundamental advantage to vinyl in reproducing what real instruments and voices sound like. and no matter how wide or enveloping the soundstage if a trumpet or piano sounds less veiled and more real thru vinyl then vinyl is better (IMHO). it is easy to for me in my room to compare 2 channels of sacd to vinyl. i can compare the basic, fundamental way the 2 formats reproduce music. it is clear that vinyl is better (closer to real). if you add more channels this does not change.

i am speaking of my particular musical reproduction standards, YMMV.

as far as record cleaning i am not particularly advanced. i clean all used records before i play them, and about half my new records. i use a VPI 16.5 record cleaner. i have probably cleaned about 2700 records over the last 7 years.

i have 3 different felt pick-ups for dirty, cleaner, cleanest. sometimes i need to reclean a record 2 or 3 times and i will start with the dirty one and then change as the record becomes cleaner. i will rotate my pick-ups as they are used. i vaccuum the mat on the VPI every 5 sides or so. i use Audio Advisor cleaner (please no indignant flames) and squirt it liberally on the record. after the record is fully cleaned i will put LAST record preservative on each side. i then insert it into a new inner sleeve. i put the Jacket into a new outer plastic sleeve and the record goes inside the plastic behind the Jacket.

i avoid brushing or other wise 'messing' with the record after that unless there is an excess of lint or dust. i clean my stylus every 6 sides or so with LAST cleaner. i avoid the stylus treatment since i am concerned about it wicking into the coils.

i have probably skipped a few steps but you get the idea.

i don't generally reclean any record. i like to listen to music.....not the vaccuum on the VPI.

let me finish by stateing that i love sacd and sacd multi-channel. it is certainly the future and we have it now. it doesn't need to be better than vinyl to achieve it's purpose. someday i'll learn to ignore statements that compare sacd performance to vinyl performance.

mikel

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