Maybe. This sounds a little snobby.For the most part the resurgence is a result of hype, young lemmings follow each other and playing vinyl has become cool. They rarely own capable systems anyway and i see so many especially young girls selling of their complete Collection of shit music on the used market. They can not hear the difference anyway. This resurgence will pass, they are fickle customers.
Here's a top 30 likely to be more of your era....No advantage to listening to most of that music on vinyl, badly recorded shit will sound like shit, no matter what format !
For the most part the resurgence is a result of hype, young lemmings follow each other and playing vinyl has become cool. They rarely own capable systems anyway and i see so many especially young girls selling of their complete Collection of shit music on the used market. They can not hear the difference anyway. This resurgence will pass, they are fickle customers.
I knew that I was "done", meaning I could be happy with my current components for the rest of my life, when the sound from very high end/expensive systems at dealers, shows, and colleague's homes, stopped sounding superior to what I was getting from my own system. I still enjoy going to listen to new gear, and I regularly hear systems which wouldn't fit in my small room that fill a large room with high quality sound. But it has been several years since I've heard any grouping of components that sounded better to me than my current system. I spent decades chasing that last measure of refinement, resolution, naturalness, etc. Several things ended that chase for me. Specifically: 1) the last round of modifications to my Pathos TT integrated by the late Bill Thalman, which included among other things adding Bybee Music Rails and Duelund Cast Pio Tinned Copper capacitors, 2) driver, wiring, crossover, and cabinet upgrades to my Bache Audio speakers by designer Greg Belman, and 3) serious attention to room acoustics including deploying DHDI ZR panels on the walls behind my speakers and listening position. A year or so ago my last attempt at a component upgrade sealed it for me. After nearly a decade of listening to the Modwright modified Marantz SA8005 sacd player (custom analogue tube output stage and separate tube rectified power supply) I "upgraded" to a PS Audio Perfect Wave SACD transport and top of the line Audio-GD DAC, not to improve the sound but because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to replace parts if necessary in the Marantz unit (Modwright will always service what they've modified). However I preferred the sound of the older tube SACD player so I bought a used modified unit as a backup and a used stock unit for parts and ditched the PS Audio/DAC combo. Note that putting a Wellfloat platform and Dalby Lignum Vitae feet under the Modwright-Marantz transport made an improvement equaling or exceeding a component upgrade. I will continue to experiment with tweaks just because it is fun, but the only thing that will get me to replace a component is if one fails and can't be repaired.on the KL Audio thread i responded to Ron's points about changing gear where he he responded to a @XV-1 post "Ron, just think of the turnover of your equipment in the last 18 months.
" saying "But I'm not sure that one swap of three things and an additional third thing is a lot compared to many."
with this post........"10 years from now is when you can look back to say when stuff actually settled down and were set......for 3-4 years in a row. where changing is no longer a thought."
then @tima picked up on that and responded to my point....."It is an interesting phenomena -- how do you know when you're satisfied. How do you know when you're done? "
Ron said "I'll know it when I hear it.
i was going to respond to Tim on that thread, but thinking about it, seemed like it's an important enough subject to justify it's own thread so not to comingle it with the KL Audio thread.
how do you know when you are done? and what does done mean? done listening? done talking about changing? done changing? done major piece changing? or just dialed way back on your sense of pursuit? in my mind all those things are forms of being done.
personally i have made it known i'm sorta done and i've got life style changes going on which has changed my priorities considerably. does that mean i don't think about better sound? my answer right now March 14th, 8:28am PDT is i'm not sure exactly what it means. but for sure something has changed for me in terms of how i view my hifi/music hobby path. there are no pieces of gear on my mind to acquire. i'm not thinking about my next move. yet; listening and thinking about the hobby still burns brightly.
before i made the decision last summer to change my lifestyle i think i had already felt i was done. satisfied. investigated what i needed to. acquired the media i wanted to. flirted with some major changes, but realized i was just wanting change for change sake and pulled back from that spot and realized i had what i wanted already. i was in a place of contentment. where when i listened my heart was good. my boxes were checked.
i was hearing what i needed and wanted to hear and was/am happy. day after day after day. and being retired did not want to reinvent my hifi self to explore other approaches.
in my mind no doubt if something minor is presented to me that does move the system performance needle i'm still open to that, but nothing too big. i'm good. i'm done.
what does being done mean to others? where is that for you? what needs to happen, or not happen, for you to feel like you are done? and if so is it......."at a place of rest until the next push"....or...."done for now"......or........"done till you are not done"......or "really done forever"?
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My understanding is that these beginner vinyl newcomers buy both reissue classic rock along with the Taylor Swift and Travis Scott. this group is not chasing original pressings. what they do do is to fuel the the whole vinyl manufacturing momentum and make it more likely that the overall health of vinyl will carry on.
What benefit does a DDA album carry over a CD or streamed album. Sonically that is.
FWIW, the source file for an LP release is often different from that of one for digital release. It may not contain as much compression and DSP as the digital release as there's no intention to be played in a car. The LP producer that cares about the final product will often ask the recording engineer if there is a non-DSP version of the source file. This is one reason why the LP can sound better and have wider dynamic range. Its nothing to do with the format other than the requirement to be able to play nicely in a car.
See above.
there are so many variables in how music is consumed at the entry level that there is no way to generalize. for instance, many beginner vinyl enthusiasts might consume digital files on headphones, not even own a dac or cd player, but for their turntable might have speakers. and use it for communal listening. more an event not background. just as an example of how it might work.
i agree that the vinyl reawakening since the mid-90's has driven prices higher. but......i doubt prices of original pressings or scarce vinyl, driven by collectors and audiophiles, has much to do specifically with young beginner vinyl interest. they are different things only peripherally connected.
I don't know how long it takes to create a "Master" that differs one to another. If its not that time intensive, it would be nice if studio simply released versions for car or for 2 channel, in home playback. If its not all that hard, I'm surprised non have caught on.
A lot of streaming files are 16/44,1 like CD's, the digital master used for creating vinyl might be higher resolution.
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