Pffft.
I've been busy recording old vinyls onto the computer. It's a complicated pain in the arse.
Before I started I got new rubber bands and needle and everything. Now I've done 10 albums, and the rubber band has already stretched and the records are playing slow. Fucking lame.
I need a direct drive turntable.
I've been busy recording old vinyls onto the computer. It's a complicated pain in the arse.
Before I started I got new rubber bands and needle and everything. Now I've done 10 albums, and the rubber band has already stretched and the records are playing slow. Fucking lame.
I need a direct drive turntable.
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The LP vs. Digital issue is a subject that may challenge you in interesting ways if you want to pursue it. I've noticed you before here and there, so I know you're very smart, but none of us are born with intimate knowledge of psychology and neuroscience, so some of the completely counterintuitive machinations of the human brain routinely have us reaching and maintaining erroneous conclusions. I have no inherited immunity of course, and there was a time when I believed that vacuum tubes sounded better than transistors, and since the first CDs were ghastly and the players were worse, it made sense to believe that digital in its entirety was a fraud at worst and offered only convenience at best.
A lovely migraine headache precludes gobbling up a couple of pages with this at the moment, but you haven't told me how you determined that the TT speed was decreasing. DD is not more reliable than belts, although you clearly can't have problems associated with belts in their absence. In either arrangement there is a motor that has to turn at the correct speed and without fluctuations. There is in both a main bearing that must be smooth enough that the platter doesn't add audible rumble to the sound. With DD, the main bearing is part of the motor itself, which has to be extremely refined to not require a rubber belt to isolate its vibrations from the platter.
What I can explain in due course are the inherent shortcomings of the system of LP recording and playback, in addition to the mechanisms that allow us to perceive sound quality in ways that may or may not relate to what's actually happening. I find it endlessly fascinating and very useful, but I suppose I'm willing to keep most of it to myself if you would prefer not to know.
I just saw that you're studying architorture!* Talk about coincidence.
* A comment on U of T, not the profession!
You always seem to have the right thing to say.
I can't wait to meet you and the bombfire to. Fire rocks my socks