I guess by "full music" you mean pop pop crack ruffle crack pop, yea.. ill pass. My old man had that tube crap with a high end turn table, it was even belt driven with an isolated motor, ill still pass. Ill keep my 5k songs on my laptop the size of 5 LP's stacked and ill keep my nice little digi mp3 player.. In the end your talking about differences most people dont/cant hear, well they hear the pops. I bet, I would bet anything that the majority of people would not be able to tell the difference between digi and tube/lp if they were behind curtains... If the lp didnt pop and rattle always a dead give away. In the end i think ill keep my 2k songs on my iPhone. But hey, if everyone didnt like somethin different then old/better/worse/new w/e cultures would be lost. Different strokes for different folks. Cheers
There is a little more to why people still prefer to listen to vinyl (records) over cd's & to use Tube amplifiers, it has to do with compression,dynamic range,odd order distortions,clipping & the quality of the D,A,C (Digitial to Analog Converter) that the cd player uses to convert its signal "which is bianary code that cant be heard" into a signal that can be heard, which is analog.
In the beginning of cd the Digital to Analog conversion process was crude,much information was lost in the conversion process resulting in poor sound,recording engineers still used time proven recording methods to produce quality recordings that were accurate reproductions of the music, but they still sounded bad because of the shoddy conversion rates,over time & with tech advances the Digital to Analog converters inside cd players came of age to where they are now,pretty much all DAC converters are able to accurately restructure the signal into analog,these advances in technology should have made cd a clearly beetter medium & it did briefly.
Enter the new age recording methods.
Loud is where it's at nowdays,the (behind curtians test) you spoke above is called a DBT (double blind test) & is widely used in perceptual research that goes into designing audio equipment,DBT's have been around since the early days of hifi & were pioneered by Floyd Toole & Sidney Harmon,one of the things they found durring these test's is that if people can see the stereo gear they will automatically pick by brand recognition or pick the one that costs the most as sounding better,take away the visual aspect of the comparison & they also found out that every single time test subjects will pick the louder recording as sounding better,which is rarely the case.
Recording engineers & record company big wigs picked up on this,what they did was to narrow the dynamic range of the recording & pump up the recording level's ,making every last recording as loud as possible,this type of recording is widely used & highly distorted,Vinyl as well as RTR (reel to reel) could not work as a medium being recorder in such a way so it held true to quality recording methods, while the methods for recording cd's slides farther down hill as time goes on greatly affecting the overall sound,remember louder is better & always will be to consumers,how else dose Bose pass off the junk they sell as hi-fidelity equipment & command top dollar for it.
Tube gear vs solid state (transistor) gear,there is also more to this than just a bunch of geezers living in the past,to understand why some prefer tubes over solid state you must first understand the differences in the clases of amplification.
Class A amplifiers are the best sounding at all listening levels,they also hold the lowest distortion figures of all the different classes but they have serious
drawbacks which are massive power consumption,low wattage & EXTREME HEAT & massive build costs resulting in amplifiers that weigh in excess of 100lbs & cost $5,000 & up.
Class B amplifiers,very cost efficient & are near perfect in the way they operate except one thing,all class b amplifiers sound like complete shit due to massive amounts of distortion,so bad they are never used in ANY audio application.
To get past these drawbacks of both amp classes a new class of amplifier was invented which is Class A/B,what a class a/b amp does is to run in pure class A mode in the lower range,usually between 5 to 10 percent of full power,then after a percentage the amplifier drifts more twords class b operation,remember the extremely low distortion of the Pure Class A amplifier,the farther the amp drifts twords Class B operation to meet the power demand caused by increased volume the more it drifts away from class a,also the farther the amp/receiver drifts from class a the more odd order distortion is added to the signal,this type of distortion is very unpleseant & causes "listener fatigue" very quickly.
Have you ever felt tired after listening to loud music?? if so it was listener fatigue.
With this information & knowing the fact that ALL tube amplifiers are 100% Class A its aparent why some still use tube gear over solid state gear.
I could write a novel on this subject but im sure im boring the hell outta everybody,i just thought a little information as to why some of us still prefer to spin records on tube systems was in order,it is about sound quality.
...Although I do like to have good sounds as well.
) so surround sound in my room wooo!
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