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Vinyl Record Day
Posted by Dr Yang on 12 August 2008 - 11:31am.
Today is apparently Vinyl Record Day, 131 years since the phonograph was invented. According to the web site it's partly a day to enjoy great music, and partly to increase awareness of a large amount of vinyl material that has not yet been transferred to CD for reasons of record company economy.
Of course, mere transfer to CD wouldn't please people like Neil Young but transfer to a digital format at good quality would be a fine start.
Anyway if you have the equipment and the time, it might be a fine day to replace the vacuum tubes and stylus, get out the oscilloscope to check that your turntable is running at the correct speed, and savour the analogue warmth.
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I have decided to transfer
"Hector And Other Pecadillos" to CD in celebration.
The great man
I salute you
http://www.mikeabsalom.com/
That's what I love about this blog.
Someone will know what you're wittering on about, whoever you mention.
Horses for courses
The endless debate about the virtues of formats will go on forever but i do find it reassuring that a copy of a single pressed in 1961 still plays prefectly well on my rega, as it did almost 50 years ago.
Multi-formating
I love playing vinyl for all the reasons no doubt expounded on before on this very blog. It does have a certain quality all of its own and the fact that the technology has been around for so long means that it has been honed to perfection. CD players are also now getting to the stage where they can truly make the most of the format (and while on the decline CD sales are still quite high). Downloads are only just beginning to be available on high bit-rate format (the latest Word-related source being a good example), but the technology is still in its infancy and it will be a while before truly good sound is available from hard disc players, and iPod seem to be going in the other direction sound quality-wise.
So I'm not giving up on vinyl or cd yet, and haven't entered the downloading revolution, my iPod is strictly for travelling and the office, and the only played through a Graham Slee Voyager amp
http://www.gspaudio.co.uk/headphoneamps/voyagerheadphoneamplifier.htm
which shows significant improvement especially with lossless files.