Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 v7 ucbtopaz-1.8; site ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!ucbvax!ucbtopaz!mwm From: mwm@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA (Mike (I'll be mellow when I'm dead) Meyer) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: CD vs LP experiences Message-ID: <950@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> Date: Tue, 28-May-85 01:59:26 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbtopaz.950 Posted: Tue May 28 01:59:26 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 30-May-85 03:41:20 EDT References: <141@utflis.UUCP> <301@moncol.UUCP> <494@edison.UUCP> <142@harvard.ARPA> Reply-To: mwm@ucbtopaz.UUCP (Mike (I'll be mellow when I'm dead) Meyer) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 45 In article <142@harvard.ARPA> sasaki@harvard.UUCP (Marty sasaki) writes: >However, if you are willing to spend more money on the analog player, >then things become confusing. When things are set up properly a good >analog player is simply amazing. (The LP advocates are knowingly nodding >their heads and smiling at this point. The CD advocates have already hit >the 'n' key.) I listened to a small jazz group and could place the exact >position of each drum and cymbal. Of course the front end cost over >$3000 (Sota Star Saphire, Souther arm, a Kiseki (I forget which one) >cart feeding a Klyne pre-preamp). I've never heard such precise imaging >from a CD. But is this worth $2000? I've heard that kind of imaging from a CD player - the Kyocera at $1600. Some unknown pre-amp, the Threshold SA/1, and a pair of ITC-1s (what I was actually listening to). My Magnavox at home isn't far from it with a NAD 2200 and the ITC-1s. The source wasn't a small jazz group, it was The London Early Music group, but the effect is the same. On a different note, a digitalphobe friend of mine had just decided to buy a turntable (the Oracle Delphi, I think), and the store had the new Nak CD players, so we played with it a while. He eventually decided not to buy the turntable, but to get the Nak, because "it has better imaging." He has notes on exactly what was used, and said he would post them, but monster interlink fanatics might note that the system used MonsterCable Interlink (I, not II) everywhere but to the Nak - it was connected with whatever came in the box with it. >Top CD players and top LP players both produce very good sound, but the >sounds are different. Who is to say which is better? At best, you are >comparing the sound that you hear through your audio system with what >you think you remember the "real" thing sounds like. True, they do sound different. I have as yet to decide which I like, but the cost will probably keep me from buying a turntable that sounds as good as my CD players. Another point to continue pounding into the ground is the convenience of CD players. I'm setting up a CD player & system in my office, and will take selected CDs to work on my bike. Want to try that with your LPs? Better yet, I will probably buy a Walkman type CD sometime in the (far) future. Anybody want to put money on Sony (or anybody else, for that matter) producing a Walkman type LP player? Or one for your car? With such beasts, I can get music anywhere you can with a cassette deck, and of *much* better quality.