Analog Rantings

Myles B. Astor

Myles B. Astor

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You know what I love seeing and reading post-CES? All these clowns who were the first to ditch the medium when perfect sound arrived now jumping back on the analog bandwagon! Duh, and now you have brilliant ideas on how to save analog? It don't need saving boys. We never abandoned it and kept it alive. People like Hobson, Kassem and other software manufacturers kept it alive. Not you now or ever. You all remind me of the story Harry Weisfeld tells about the digital manufacturer who in the mid-80s who looked at him and said, "what are you going to be doing in five years?" Well that digital manufacturer is long gone and VPI and other turntable manufacturers continue grow and prosper! In fact, I don't think we've had more high-end turntable manufacturers at any point in time than now!

End of rant!
 
Amen. And how about when friends came over to your house in the late 90's/early 2000's and pointed at your turntable and laughed? Who's laughing now?
 
Except you skip over the part about more high end DAC's and streaming devices and new companies offering those every day. Analog will always remain a niche market.
 
Digital is getting better and has come a long way. I love my Lumin as much as my turntable. It's only taken me 33 years to love my digital as much as my vinyl. My beef was always CD vs LP. I saw the CD and rapid decline of LP/Vinyl/Analog - drive many audiophiles away from the hobby. They chucked their turntables for the newest CD player and all of a sudden, didn't enjoy listening as much as they once did. But they couldn't blame CD's, I mean, they were supposed to be perfect.
 
still-one said:
Except you skip over the part about more high end DAC's and streaming devices and new companies offering those every day. Analog will always remain a niche market.
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Sorry but I don't want to make this into an analog vs. Digital debate. Only about those fair weather friends.
 
Mike said:
Amen. And how about when friends came over to your house in the late 90's/early 2000's and pointed at your turntable and laughed? Who's laughing now?
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Yeah now they just point and laugh at the 15 ips R2R tapes! :) The records runeth over. My girlfriend laughed at all the records and TPs brought back from CES. Where they going to go she asked? :)
 
Myles B. Astor said:
Sorry but I don't want to make this into an analog vs. Digital debate. Only about those fair weather friends.
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Myles, I wasn't trying to continue the analog/digital debate either. (bad English) In a way I was agreeing that the rapid decline of CD album sales (-14% last year) is rapidly moving that media towards a niche product. Streaming music ripped to our own servers or from subscription devices from the likes of Spotify, Rhapsody and MOG will rapidly eliminate CD players from the average home.
 
Understood. Problem for digital manufacturers: with every new digital format comes new licensing fees :(
 
I switched from analog to digital but never thought of myself as a clown. I like the ease, convenience, and sound quality of digital and it is where I am investing my time and money. I don't think I am alone.
 
Again, this has nothing to do with a debate nor is anything about digital users.

It's about those who bad mouthed analog (not to mention high-end audio and how MC/HT was the future) and after trying their best to kill the medium, are now jumping back on the analog bandwagon to make a buck.
 
Rub it in Myles, rub it in.

Hahahahaha. U were vinyl, when vinyl wasnt cool!
 
I never lost the faith.

Quite amusing that some of my LP's I bought in the early 90's with just a blank black cover with a CD sticker stuck on the front are worth 20 fold and above to what I paid for them.

I have a bit of a laugh when I see recent vinyl adopters, most of them due to dissatisfaction with CD or lured by the small vinyl peer group pressure either paying absurd prices for out of print vinyl or salivating on every new vinyl reissue. :exciting:

better late than never I guess :peace:
 
Shure that today's turntables turn and spin all analog eyes around; they are more attractive and aesthetically an excellent match with today's high end fashion audio gear.

A digital CD/SACD player or hi-rez music server is no match (looks) to some of them beautiful turntables. ...Not even by an analog mile!
 
If I wanted to have digital that sounded like high end vinyl, what dac does everyone recommend. Need detail, big soundstage but organic you-are-there absence of electronic sheen
 
<<<>>> Some of them newer digital gear, like the illuminated dCS Da Vinci looks pretty good though (thirty years later).
...Next, dCS Vivaldi? ...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? ...Ludwig van Beethoven? ...Frederic Chopin? ...Johann Sebastian Bach?
 
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