Comments on: Shaded Dog Days http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/shaded-dog-days/ Digital Trends is your home for technology news, CE product reviews, mobile app reviews and daily videos. Sun, 27 May 2012 18:03:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jeff http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/shaded-dog-days/#comment-58298 Jeff Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:18:49 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-58298 Find a good record and with a good rig you won't go back to CD's. The CD is dead anyway, FLAC and Internet distribution is the future. Have LP's for when the music was good, and hopefully the industry will come around with higher bit-rate files via digital distribution. Which will come much closer to vinyl if you've ever heard a god SACD. Find a good record and with a good rig you won't go back to CD's. The CD is dead anyway, FLAC and Internet distribution is the future. Have LP's for when the music was good, and hopefully the industry will come around with higher bit-rate files via digital distribution. Which will come much closer to vinyl if you've ever heard a god SACD.

]]> By: tim coop http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/shaded-dog-days/#comment-58296 tim coop Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:04:13 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-58296 To my ears cds sound very sterile, unmusical, borring, no emotion. I trashed my cd player. I have old 8 track players I collect from yard sales. They sound much better than the perfect sound forever farce. My cassettes sound light years ahead to any digital format. Inexpensive vinyl players are better sounding than digital. The cd did not kill the lp. The greedy record companies did. Why is analog so much better than digital? There is no voltage levels between 1 and 0 to form analog sine waves. What voltages are between 1 and 0? Absolutely nothing. To make a true sine wave we need a 1/2 volt 3/4 volt 5/8 volt 1/4 volt. These voltage levels are endless, they go forever. They are essential for constructing sine waves. Without them there can be no music. They give music warmth and soul. To my ears cds sound very sterile, unmusical, borring, no emotion. I trashed my cd player. I have old 8 track players I collect from yard sales. They sound much better than the perfect sound forever farce. My cassettes sound light years ahead to any digital format. Inexpensive vinyl players are better sounding than digital. The cd did not kill the lp. The greedy record companies did. Why is analog so much better than digital? There is no voltage levels between 1 and 0 to form analog sine waves. What voltages are between 1 and 0? Absolutely nothing. To make a true sine wave we need a 1/2 volt 3/4 volt 5/8 volt 1/4 volt. These voltage levels are endless, they go forever. They are essential for constructing sine waves. Without them there can be no music. They give music warmth and soul.

]]> By: Werner T http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/shaded-dog-days/#comment-58295 Werner T Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:51:45 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-58295 Yes, I remember those days, I still have my LP collection and when CD's started to take over I went and bought all my favourite LP and the ones that bring back memories of my teenage years. By the way I have mint copy,s of Dark Side of the Moon, and many more such as the Doors and Led Zeplin just to name a few, tucked in Angle sleaves, still in their plastic wrap to protect the covers. I also keep them standing on edge so their isn't any weight pushing dust into the grooves, and I wipe them before and after I listen to them.<br /> I still have my system that I bought in the mid seventies.<br /> 1. Phase linear 400 amp.<br /> 2. Amcron Ic 150 preamp made by Crown<br /> 3. Thorens TD 160 Turn Table<br /> 4. Audio technica AT155LC cartrage<br /> 5. I originally had Infinity speakers, you remember the ones that first came out with the 360 degree cone tweeters looked like an ice cream cone. Bought the Polk Audio's as the only upgrade in the late eighties, the towers with the cable running to each speaker to give you what Polks called 3D depth sound, and by george it worked as they claimed. Even with the advancement in cd players, I still can't replicate the 3d imaging that I get from LP's.<br /> haven't heard much sweeter sound since.<br /> Just to finish off, a funny story. I had a New Years get together and my Son brought his friend over, they were about 13 at the time and I put a LP on, and my Sons friend who had never seen a LP before exclaimed " Where did you get the giant CD from." Yes, I remember those days, I still have my LP collection and when CD's started to take over I went and bought all my favourite LP and the ones that bring back memories of my teenage years. By the way I have mint copy,s of Dark Side of the Moon, and many more such as the Doors and Led Zeplin just to name a few, tucked in Angle sleaves, still in their plastic wrap to protect the covers. I also keep them standing on edge so their isn't any weight pushing dust into the grooves, and I wipe them before and after I listen to them.
I still have my system that I bought in the mid seventies.
1. Phase linear 400 amp.
2. Amcron Ic 150 preamp made by Crown
3. Thorens TD 160 Turn Table
4. Audio technica AT155LC cartrage
5. I originally had Infinity speakers, you remember the ones that first came out with the 360 degree cone tweeters looked like an ice cream cone. Bought the Polk Audio's as the only upgrade in the late eighties, the towers with the cable running to each speaker to give you what Polks called 3D depth sound, and by george it worked as they claimed. Even with the advancement in cd players, I still can't replicate the 3d imaging that I get from LP's.
haven't heard much sweeter sound since.
Just to finish off, a funny story. I had a New Years get together and my Son brought his friend over, they were about 13 at the time and I put a LP on, and my Sons friend who had never seen a LP before exclaimed ” Where did you get the giant CD from.”

]]> By: Fred Ehmann http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/shaded-dog-days/#comment-58294 Fred Ehmann Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:32:37 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-58294 I remember well the first breathless demo of a (Sony) CD player I heard. They were scarcer than hen's teeth and the CDs to feed them nearly nonexistant. The salesman was excited and I was too--but then he played the music. Something was very wrong: the strings were steely and harsh. My excitement evaporated. (But damn--no surface noise.) Of course digital mastering has come a looong way in the ensuing decades, but I have to agree: There is nothing like good vinyl. It's a pain in the ass, fragile, hard to find, but man when it's right, it's heaven.<br /> <br /> My system is what I would call High-Value Audiophile: Used Oracle TT, Creek Audio Phono Preamp, Bryston integrated, Vandersteen 2Cs. And, yes--I have a lot of CDs too. They did get better, but still... I remember well the first breathless demo of a (Sony) CD player I heard. They were scarcer than hen's teeth and the CDs to feed them nearly nonexistant. The salesman was excited and I was too–but then he played the music. Something was very wrong: the strings were steely and harsh. My excitement evaporated. (But damn–no surface noise.) Of course digital mastering has come a looong way in the ensuing decades, but I have to agree: There is nothing like good vinyl. It's a pain in the ass, fragile, hard to find, but man when it's right, it's heaven.

My system is what I would call High-Value Audiophile: Used Oracle TT, Creek Audio Phono Preamp, Bryston integrated, Vandersteen 2Cs. And, yes–I have a lot of CDs too. They did get better, but still…

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