Vinyl Sales Outpace CD Sales!

[Addicted to hifi]

I never understand the need people have to take a crack at something that is other than their preference.

If you love CDs, or vinyl or a server based replay more power to you as long as it is making you happy. But why frame the defence of your choice by taking shots at the other ways fellow audiophiles choose to enjoy music or sound or gear? Just because something is not to your particular liking or you struggle with it doesn’t then make it bad. Might just be about your preferences or your particular sensitivities or you or your systems strengths or weaknesses.

But whether you love sound or love music or love both it’s all good. But I’ve yet to meet an audiophile who makes everything genuinely simple in their approach to this. We are all the architects of our own complex responses.

This is the completely simple way that I started my love of audio and music…

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I was totally fascinated by the music and my first record player experiences as a kid… the drives to be an audiophile lead us to somewhere possibly fantastic and different, but I’d suggest rarely any simpler

What a beauty.

 

[Addicted to hifi]

I like the feel the looks the smell of lps and cds and will never go to streaming.there’s something special when I hold them in my hand.

 

[microstrip]

(...) Tell us about your four box Vivaldi, which version and updates, and all of those cables. Wait, please don't.

Why not? The dCS Vivaldi system is simple, predictable and reliable. It comes with excellent manuals, filled with clear connecting schemes that makes the connection of the four boxes a children affair. There was only one upgrade big upgrade, it was extremely simple to carry - in a few cases of older versions of the upsampler that needed a small board replacement the dealers/distributors carried it. All else is carried transparently to the user through the net. Ah, yes we also had to play a CD that was delivered by dealers. And people who hate many boxes can get a dCS Vivaldi One.

Great analog remains great and does not change much if at all. You just have to find it and know how to set it up. Great digital seems to revolutionize every few years, or so it seems to me.

Well, I have enjoyed my digital in equal terms with analog for twenty years. You did "mistakes" for decades and only now seem to have reached nirvana in a completely different approach helped by a mentor - a real revolution, IMHO. BTW, my approach to the hobby for forty years has been music and stereo equipment, not getting stability to be buried in peace.

Now, just MHO . We can't have nothing really revolutionary in stereo - the format is limited to information being carried in two channels and the gaps in information are filled by the listener. If we want reality we should go ambisonics or multichannel.

MQA?

What is the point of MQA? We can enumerate tens of unsuccessful experiences along the years with analog, but what does it prove? BTW, I suggest you read dCS words on MQA - MQA exists, we implement it at its best form in our equipment for free. Our customers decide if they want to use it or not.

Digital must be quite simple for the billions of downloads for the many many music lovers. We here are doing something different.

And ? ...

 

[microstrip]

The change is constant. Put simply it's data processing and everything that goes with that. There are as many algorithms as there are programmers. Instead of output going to the internet or a printer or a screen or a database, it goes to a speaker.

Yes, part of the flow of information is data processing. Audio designers can use it to customize their solutions. The same way some people customize their way of collecting dust from their LPs ...

 

[wil]

I never understand the need people have to take a crack at something that is other than their preference.

If you love CDs, or vinyl or a server based replay more power to you as long as it is making you happy. But why frame the defence of your choice by taking shots at the other ways fellow audiophiles choose to enjoy music or sound or gear? Just because something is not to your particular liking or you struggle with it doesn’t then make it bad. Might just be about your preferences or your particular sensitivities or you or your systems strengths or weaknesses.

I agree. It's tiresome and misguided by vanity and ignorance.

 

[sbo6]

Micro Seiki SX 8000 II, (2) NOS SME 3012R, Technics MM: EPC-205CMK3, 3X vdH Colibri, Loricraft, KLAudio, Lamm LP2.1

--- That is: a turntable, 2 tonearms 5 cartridges, 2 record cleaners, a phono amplifier

Paul Hynes SR4T + HDPlex HD500 PSUs -> Music PC w/JCAT Femto nic, HQPlayer, Roon, Tidal / Qobuz | HDPlex HD100 PSU -> OCX clock + EtherRegen | Aqua Acoustic Quality LinQ streamer | Aqua Acoustic Quality Formula xHD Rev. 2 DAC

--- Kinda guessing here: a music server, a quiet case w/ special power supply for the music pc(?), a music pc with a special network card, an upsampler(?), 3 music sources, a power supply, a clock, a switch, a network device maybe something like router(?), a digital to analog converter

None of which has anything to do with vinyl or compact disc sales.

I'll leverage what Microstrip said as I can't say it any better - "This hobby can be as complex as we want it to be. You can have an excellent digital system that is very simple, or can make it an epic battle. The same way we can do it with vinyl."

 

[sbo6]

Micro Seiki SX 8000 II, (2) NOS SME 3012R, Technics MM: EPC-205CMK3, 3X vdH Colibri, Loricraft, KLAudio, Lamm LP2.1

--- That is: a turntable, 2 tonearms 5 cartridges, 2 record cleaners, a phono amplifier

Paul Hynes SR4T + HDPlex HD500 PSUs -> Music PC w/JCAT Femto nic, HQPlayer, Roon, Tidal / Qobuz | HDPlex HD100 PSU -> OCX clock + EtherRegen | Aqua Acoustic Quality LinQ streamer | Aqua Acoustic Quality Formula xHD Rev. 2 DAC

--- Kinda guessing here: a music server, a quiet case w/ special power supply for the music pc(?), a music pc with a special network card, an upsampler(?), 3 music sources, a power supply, a clock, a switch, a network device maybe something like router(?), a digital to analog converter

None of which has anything to do with vinyl or compact disc sales.

And BTW that's 11 vinyl components versus 8 digital. So there!