Well, isn't this list full of dickheads... Ask yourself this -
What kind of music is this list about? - Dance Music
Dance music, by definition, is music to dance to, therefore its primary
function is to be played loud with a lot of people dancing to it, This can only
be realistically achieved via two Technics - This kind of music should come out
as vinyl ......QED. Admittedly there are a lot of people (including myself )who
also like to sit at home and analyse this music via a hifi and a big
smoke. Even then I would recommend the turntable for its ability to produce
emotion in records.
for example - Aphex Twin - Digeridoo
Age of love - age of love
Gat decor - passion
Influx - Braineater e.t.c
"Dr digital waits round the corner ready to bore your system to death"
Hi Fi World Oct '93
More on the Glory of Vinyl ;
Human hearing is not digital,it is analog,this means that the incident pressure
level is continuously varying.It seems perfectly obvious to me now that the
reproduction systems should be analog in nature.Digital is a mere approximation
of what you could have if you saved some money and brought records instead of
cds. The true test of any system is to listen to it and let your ears judge.I
was once a cd buyer and invested heavily in the best equipment I could afford
(Meridian 200 / 203 combination).I thought that the sound was the best that I
had heard.Then one day I sat down and listened to a friends turntable and I was
immediately converted to analog media.The pricipal difference was that of
involvement in the music and the conveyance of emotion.CDs sounded dull flat
lifeless boring tame and uninteresting in comparison.
I now bitterly regret the fact that I did not listen to a decent turntable
before I spent 1500 on a CD machine that was easily bettered by a turntable at
a third of the price.
J and A - two Beng Electroacoustics students who know everything