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bob:

--- Quote from: antenna on January 31, 2025, 08:51:46 pm ---> I have a couple of turntables that I'm using more lately than in decades.

A DJ on the radio station I like to listen to (  https://www.1071thepeak.com/  ) has said that he is listening to vinyl at home now.   Of course, I doubt if that station has a turntable in their studio.

But they do broadcast, and note when they do, high resolution masters of the songs they play (usually 96/24 or greater).

 If you're listening to their streaming, that won't matter.  But I listen on my McIntosh tuner, and it sounds quite good.

 > The B&O needed a new cartridge, fortunately still can get ones new.

Yeah, fortunately, I thought ahead and purchased a replacement stylus for my cartridge.  Will it last through the remaining digitization I need to do?  I wish I knew.

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Just searched on your equipment list. Very impressive. I'm in the stone age in comparison  ;)

antenna:
> Just searched on your equipment list. Very impressive.

Thanks for that.

I have always been concerned about audio quality.  As an aside, I hope the playlists I upload to the awesome CloudPlay service here convey what I hear on my vinyl to reflect that concern about audio quality. :)  Such is the issue with older analog.

Back when I was a teen, I opened up the back of the TV in my bedroom, and put an audio tap on the volume control.  I fed that tap into the stereo system I had at the time.  So, instead of listening to TV shows on a 3" speaker in the TV, I listened to it via the stereo I had at the time.  A huge difference.

Fortunately, back then, I lived in the New York City television realm, so the stations I watched and listened to were full fidelity, not the reduced fidelity that the networks imposed upon their affiliates before satellite transmission came into being.  New York City was a network origination point, so the shows were not subject to traveling over lower-quality means.

It wasn't until the mid- late-1980's when stereo audio for television emerged that the networks seemed to care about the audio quality they passed to to their affiliates. 

Stereo in TV represented, imo, a major change.  Instead of the low bandwidth feeds to affiliates over phone lines, the networks seemed to move to satellite feeds which gave a wider bandwidth for the audio.  Stated subtly differently, if you lived outside of the New York City or Los Angeles network origination areas, you could now receive a much higher quality of audio.

Of course, then digital TV came along, and we're back to 162kps audio on the networks.

 :)

 

antenna:

--- Quote from: bob on February 01, 2025, 10:59:17 am ---Just searched on your equipment list. Very impressive.

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Thanks again.

But I also want to add to my reply ...

Analog is an interesting concept.

When someone on CloudPlay service plays a playlist I uploaded, and if that playlist is based in analog (a.k.a. vinyl), then that person is experiencing what I hear here on my audio system.

Digital-oriented playlists, on the other hand, are more indicative of what the issuers of those digital versions want you to hear.

Do the record companies intentionally release lower quality versions so that they can, at a later date, sell you the 96/24 version?

I wish I knew.

But, is there a pattern?

 
So many questions??

 ;D

 


 

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