My first venture into Vinyl
2017-11-11 11:21:18
Hi all, this is just some feedback on my first venture into the world of Vinyl. Since I am a big fan of 60's and 70's rock, thanks to my dad, I thought its about time I raided his collection of Vinyl. I got myself an Audio Technica AT-LP5 and am running it into my Denon AVR-X3300W which has Wharfedale Diamond 230's for the fronts, with a BK Elec P12-300 subwoofer. All I can say is... Oh my, what have I been missing. It is an absolute PLEASURE to hear these records as they were originally intended and I have very quickly begun to realise what people mean when they go on about bad mastering on certain CD releases of these old records. I am enjoying it so much that I decided to connect the turntable up to my Soundblaster X7 and 'rip' a few of my favourite LP's in 24/96. I really wasn't expecting such a huge difference in sound, but when I compare for example the CD version of AC/DC Let The Be Rock, to my dads 1977 Vinyl copy its like night and day! To my ears, and obviously this is subjective, the original record is warmer, smoother and even more 'dynamic' than the CD that I have been listening to for the past 10 years. Switching between my vinyl rip and the cd rip it becomes so obvious that the mastering process for the CD must have just been 'compress the nuts off it and crank the volume!'. So overall a FANTASTIC new experience for me, just thought i'd share :-)