Resistor Sound Quality?

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For one thing, vinyl inherently corrupts audio in ways we would never tolerate from any other kind of equipment except possibly speakers and rooms. T
he readily and continuously audible corruption due to vinyl cursed my life until the first practical digital players became available in the early 1980s.
If we still had nothing better, well that was how things were until the early 1980s. But we have something far better, so other than recovering music from the archives, why bother with vinyl?

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if digital is better in every way you must done something wrong... the cost tell only that is serious stuff not how good sound ...please share as to me just rega p3 sound better then digital

I have a older Rega TT, and no way can it compete SQ-wize even with just a Sansa Clip. The problem is neither device, its the limitations of vinyl media itself. I've been to high end audio shows and heard what was purported to be the best, and well vinyl is what it is, and it will never be enough more.

The inherent and practically insurmountable sound quality limitations of vinyl were pretty well documented in the technical literature of audio no later than the late 1960s.

A personal preference for vinyl is easy to explain but you find the best explanations in the sciences of perception, psychology, and sociology, and not the science of audio.
 
Nothing to do with open minds, just reality, when the opinions are wrong is it not right for people to point it out?

What some may not know is that my opinion of some of these people was once (prior to 1975) far higher, and then Science intruded...


So, history shows that my mind was/is open, and I simply followed where Science and personal experience led me.
 
Do you understand that what I said is proven scientific fact, not to mention consistent with the opinions and behavior of about 99% of the people on earth?

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5,206 thread on analog source !
(analog source are Turntables, Tonearms, Cartridges, Phono Stages, Tuners, Tape Recorders, etc. to avoid your confusion)
 
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I too have a sansa clip.

Saying ' X resistor matters to me' is fine, but unless you acutally measure the effect of different loadings on the Frequency response of your cartridge you are just reinforcing a belief in yourself. These days no excuse not to get a test record and do the measurements. Then you can actually optimise. Just think, an 'optimised' setup. It might even sound better!
 
Anything anyone claims to hear that someone else seems not to is met with disbelief and a strong demand for proof.

I've given up on critical wine discussion, for instance, unless the participants are sitting at the same table with the same wine.

I would think someone would want to demonstrate their abilities for an audience. I have seen both Masters of Wine do amazing things in the perceptual domain as well as mathematical savants in their domain. As well as magicians fooling everyone.
 
Do not confuse the fact that people like to tinker for fun and for the intellectual challenge with innate superiority of a technology.

Please note the deflection from "(all) People on earth" to a tiny, as you point out, self-selected group of hobbyists. BTW, no corresponding counts from digital media subforums were provided. Our respondant's absence of clear thinking and ability to respond relevantly noted.
 
He has in the past. Generally, he likes to pull out variables that are different than the ones being actually tested (e.g., level), which don't really have validity.

As a moderator you stated that dissemination of false information can´t be tolerated but as an member you obviously can´t refrain from doing that? ;)

Beside that it doesn´t matter if someone likes any specific control proposed by me as it is the sole responsibility of the experimenter to choose sufficient ones

Positive controls are important where appropriate, but they aren't always appropriate. Inflexibility in experimental design is a sure path to failure.

Absolutely; if for example the hypothesis is in the "hears everyone who isn´t deaf" range then not much of a positive control is needed (checking for deafness is already sufficient ).

Otoh wrt to the topics we routinely discuss in these threads positive controls (and negative controls) are mandatory.
Or to cite JJ (after explaining what the purpose of positive and negative controls is):
"Do you need to have controls?
Of course, if you want to know if your test is good"
 
Mine is smaller than yours.

Mine has emigrated...!:)

For the record Nicoch I have more than one system, my favourite, because I like the presentation even though I know it is flawed and not true high fidelity is a monoblock class A SET valve amp with OB full range with either streamed music or getting my record collection out and bashing a few LPs.... There is just something so retro and it reminds me of my teenage years, when my system was my Aunts old stereo valve set-up from a music centre played through my bass cab (4x10") mono.... LP covers were very useful for other duties whilst listening to 70S prog rock:D:D
 
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