[Vintage-Audio] Vinyl making a comeback?

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Michael,

I am delighted to hear of your return to 'real audio'! Congratulations on 
the two new systems. I am anxious to hear all the details, so fill me in. 
Please.

One thing you need to keep in mind when vinyl record shopping. Avoid 
reissues! Some are reissues of the actual original, but many are not the 
original and are simply songs by a given artist being "reissued" on a 
previously never released album.

If you have a vinyl album and a CD of the same title, such as Floyd Cramer 
"The Collector's Series", it has sixteen songs on it. The CD version has 
only eight! I have checked this against all the CD and vinyl albums that 
bear an identical title, regardless of the artist, and in nine out of ten 
cases they do not match! Either the songs are different, but in every case, 
the number of songs was less on the CD. So be careful!

If you buy the original release Michael, you will discover that the original 
audio, depth, warmth and sensational mix is present. Later versions of the 
same album, supposedly rereleases, are in fact, reissues, and are not the 
same in quality. Such as the albums before the Dynaflex albums started.

I was recording some Oldies several years ago, Ricky Nelson, to be precise. 
The song was "Travelin' Man". It did not sound right to me. But I could not 
decide exactly what was wrong. Finally it came to me. His voice was slightly 
lower. I pulled up the original 45 rpm of the hit single and played it. 
Bingo! He was older when this collection was recorded and what I heard was 
not the original "Travelin' Man"!


Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
dfischer at usol.com
HHI: Halligan's Hallicrafters International
http://www.w9wze.net
HHRP: Historic Halligan Radio Project
hhrp.w9wze.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "michael salmons" <salmonsm at missouri.edu>
To: "Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back" 
<vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Vinyl making a comeback?


> Hi Duane! I guess I'm just wrapped up in the excitement of playing  the 
> actual thing. You definitely do justice to vinyl with your superb 
> recordings. And you're right, I've been dissatisfied with all the 
> blackboxes in my life lately. The ritual of cleaning the record and 
> putting the needle down makes me pay closer attention to the music.  this 
> is one unintentional side effect of greater "convenience."  i  listen to 
> music on a computer all day while I'm working and I  sometimes realize I 
> haven't even heard the last five or six songs.
>
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