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<blockquote data-quote="LIVESOUND" data-source="post: 1157856" data-attributes="member: 778"><p>I would have agreed with you a few years ago, but advances in turntables and DACs have changed that. A good pair of stereo monitors fed by a superb turntable playing any undamaged and reasonably well recorded vinyl, recent or old, will provide more distortion free detail than you will typically hear at a concert. Tone and dynamics will generally be better live but in some cases the differences are small.</p><p></p><p>Tim De Paravicini once said that the problem is not with the recordings, it is with the playback. I have only recently turned around and agreed with him.</p><p></p><p>I recently watched a YouTube video of an installation for a very wealthy US audiophile, where they mentioned that he had the only Dohmann Helix mkIII turntable in North America. Although I know them to be a high end expensive brand, I had never researched them. I looked at their website yesterday and discovered that they are made in Australia. I read their chapter on 'What makes their turntables different'. What they say absolutely accords with my own observations from having built my own turntable. Solving resonance issues transforms playback.</p><p></p><p>I am not a scientist so cannot provide reasons for it, but some albums play back well on most equipment and others sound bad despite the fact that they are both well recorded. It must have something to do with certain frequencies being excited by others that are generated simultaneously, thus developing excessive energy. Turntables capable of controlling resonance can make that so-called poor recording sound perfect. The problem is that most of these excellent performers are mega expensive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LIVESOUND, post: 1157856, member: 778"] I would have agreed with you a few years ago, but advances in turntables and DACs have changed that. A good pair of stereo monitors fed by a superb turntable playing any undamaged and reasonably well recorded vinyl, recent or old, will provide more distortion free detail than you will typically hear at a concert. Tone and dynamics will generally be better live but in some cases the differences are small. Tim De Paravicini once said that the problem is not with the recordings, it is with the playback. I have only recently turned around and agreed with him. I recently watched a YouTube video of an installation for a very wealthy US audiophile, where they mentioned that he had the only Dohmann Helix mkIII turntable in North America. Although I know them to be a high end expensive brand, I had never researched them. I looked at their website yesterday and discovered that they are made in Australia. I read their chapter on 'What makes their turntables different'. What they say absolutely accords with my own observations from having built my own turntable. Solving resonance issues transforms playback. I am not a scientist so cannot provide reasons for it, but some albums play back well on most equipment and others sound bad despite the fact that they are both well recorded. It must have something to do with certain frequencies being excited by others that are generated simultaneously, thus developing excessive energy. Turntables capable of controlling resonance can make that so-called poor recording sound perfect. The problem is that most of these excellent performers are mega expensive. [/QUOTE]
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