Meanwhile, my Carver CD player with tube pre-amp sits collecting dust. Too bad the rotary drawer mechanism they used wasn’t the highest quality.
128 bit sampling is crap. 192 is okay. I’ve found myself updating my library to 256, but given how cheap storage is these days, I may just go lossless. I don’t think I’ll be paying for Mr. Young’s contraption, though.
Nowadays, I do more listening with the phone and a set of Sennheiser headphones or in the car than I ever did in the living room. Such is the nature of having a job with lots of travel time.
Vinyl was great (hiss, snap, pop) reat (hiss, snap, pop) reat...
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Not if you took care of your albums.
I was really into music in the 80s and had (still have) a pretty good album collection from black artists late 70s-mid 80s (ex - Lakeside, Barkays, SOS Band, R James, Aurra). Using a carbon fiber brush and record jackets designed to protect albums, the sound from these albums on a great system cannot be explained.
Heavy, deep, rich, thick but not the ghetto heavy like you hear from these car systems you hear thumping in neighborhoods. CDs through a great system obviously sounded great too but an album was another level.
The author/tester was right about headphones. Good and great headphones are a must with portable music.