Yes, you are right, Jan. It's just that analog playback SOUNDS BETTER! In spite of its relatively minor problems, like scrape flutter. Head gap resonance, you mean resonating the reproduce head? We tend to avoid that with the best recording-reproduce electronics, but even if it is used, it is deliberately damped to just fill in gap loss, and then falls off at 12db/oct, rather softly compared to digital.
It all depends on whether you worry most about STATIC MEASUREMENTS or SOUND QUALITY. Sometimes you have to make a choice.
It all depends on whether you worry most about STATIC MEASUREMENTS or SOUND QUALITY. Sometimes you have to make a choice.
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I need a turntable to play my records, at least until I get around to ripping them. I'm old fashioned and I still like owning hard copies of music I buy (yeah, I buy music!) so I buy CDs but I mostly only play them in the car, I rip them to my hard drive and listen to them via my squeezebox (because I don't like having a computer in my living room). Burning CDs just doesn't make sense to me.
I think it would be fair to say it sounds better to you (and many others). What I hate is that people try to force their own preferences on the rest of us as if it is a universal truth.
I enjoy my records, I invested in a second arm on the Kuzma and a 2nd cart. And it all sounds very enjoyable. But I would be a fool to start shouting that LPs are best - they don't, not in the sense that they give the most accurate and transparent rendition of what's in the groove. I've done measurements on many vinyl replay systems - you don't want to know!
So, on a Sunday morning, fresh coffee, I really like my vinyl. I prefer it for various reasons. But it is not, by a long shot, 'the best'.
Jan
PS I meant the head gap resonance that occurs when the signal wavelength on the tape becomes a sizeable fraction of the head gap. Maybe head resonance is not the right name, I'll look it up.
Edit: lots of info here:
http://www.jrfmagnetics.com/Nortronics_pro/nortronics_silver/pdfs/Nortronics_Silvr_pp1-9.pdf
For example, a LF contour effect impact on the LF response, see attached.
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My understanding of audio only CDs has been that they are no different from data CDs in terms of how they can be used except they cost more because a fee is added to price that goes to the RIAA or somebody to compensate copyright holders of audio works for what amounts to mandatory copyright licensing. Of course, the fees can not be accurately disbursed, but apparently the major players in the record industry were in on some of the revenues so no complaints from them.
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No, regular CDR's won't mount on a consumer CD recorder at all otherwise sort of silly, you buy more expensive blanks out of a sense of fairness? You might be thinking of pro CD recorders which will mount any recordable CD.
EDIT - The CD player will play any CD it won't record on a blank that is not an audio CD, by audio I don't mean audio only just that the fee has been added.
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Okay, I never tried it on a audio CD deck. Only only a computer CD drive. Never a problem there.
To try to be fully honest, I must add that taping on my Sony cassette deck, you know, the one with multiple motors for the vibraton, three heads for authenticity, dual quartz locked capstans to appear serious, and various built in systems, like Dolby B, C and S, plus B&O's HX pro for presumably more dynamic sound, does no doubt unintentionally provide a whiff of the "bad, old days". 
This is further advanced towards the quaint by my 1977 model 604 Dual direct drive turntable, beefed up by the latest Ortofom 2M Blue cartridge un-RIAAd by Luxman's C-03 preamp. These old time punks still somehow manage to wreak a smile from me on some LPs NOT transferred to digital (to the best of my knowledge, and believe me, I looked), so I get to listen to Harry Belfonte sinf negro spititual music in a true ANALOG church acoustic environment, accompanied by a stunning group of male and female voices.
Or the ex Red Army choir, now Alexandrov, the unbelievable Russian choir second to none, who will most unfortunately never sing again after the fatal air crash a few days ago. These were the only people I know of who could take on the Mormon Tabernacle choir. But at these levels, we're talking genius in both cases. And, believe it or not, every time I put on Harry Belafonte, I somehow think of JC, saying "but, it sounds better". Despite the cracles and pops, I discovered that LP in a second hand shop in Ankara, Turkey, way back in 1965.
This is further advanced towards the quaint by my 1977 model 604 Dual direct drive turntable, beefed up by the latest Ortofom 2M Blue cartridge un-RIAAd by Luxman's C-03 preamp. These old time punks still somehow manage to wreak a smile from me on some LPs NOT transferred to digital (to the best of my knowledge, and believe me, I looked), so I get to listen to Harry Belfonte sinf negro spititual music in a true ANALOG church acoustic environment, accompanied by a stunning group of male and female voices.
Or the ex Red Army choir, now Alexandrov, the unbelievable Russian choir second to none, who will most unfortunately never sing again after the fatal air crash a few days ago. These were the only people I know of who could take on the Mormon Tabernacle choir. But at these levels, we're talking genius in both cases. And, believe it or not, every time I put on Harry Belafonte, I somehow think of JC, saying "but, it sounds better". Despite the cracles and pops, I discovered that LP in a second hand shop in Ankara, Turkey, way back in 1965.
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I have to much angst for that ...
BTW nice filter circuit. An opamp and jFETS must be the best of both worlds!
Jan
Hmmm... I just got the training then had to practice on my own. It took some effort at first, and to be honest, I think I kind of liked having fun with adjectives before. However, it didn't take me long to figure out it was worth doing. All it took was going back and reading some of the stuff I had written a year earlier and thinking about how I would like somebody else writing that way to me, or how it might be interpreted by some third party.
But, if you are serious, and don't overwhelm me, I would give a try for awhile to see if I could be of assistance to you.
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This thread is a obvious example of idiotic human nature, most of you should be ashamed of your self. Ego fighting, making fun of each other. This is all BULLS..T !
Things like measurements, science and price can NOT be blindly used for a reference for something that it is meant to reproduce music (emotions).
Or you have something else to add??
Open the "John Curl's Blowtorch preamplifier part III" and start over: feedback,opamps,analog/digital...
Human race is sick.
Things like measurements, science and price can NOT be blindly used for a reference for something that it is meant to reproduce music (emotions).
Or you have something else to add??
Open the "John Curl's Blowtorch preamplifier part III" and start over: feedback,opamps,analog/digital...
Human race is sick.
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