Vinyl rules: shopping for turntables in the digital age

By Steve Guttenberg on 06 March 2006

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Comments: Absolutely pro Vinyl some CD versions are fine but I would like to use some of The Rolling Stones tracks eg Brown Sugar, Respectable, Miss You, to illustrate a few points. The divine squeak of the snare drum on its stand as Charlie Watts seems to marvellously produce, does not come out on CD. Hi-hat and cymbals are disappointingly
mute. The studio acoustic ambience discernible at the end of some Stones tracks is also lost on CD.

These to me are subtle but profound parts of the listening experience that, in my mind bring you so much nearer to the original performance and performers.

Another case in point sammy Davis Jr Live at the Cocoanut Grove (circa 1961?) The CD version again misses
the nuance of the brass section, and
the 'off stage' quiet vocalisations. The LP allows you to hear the soft
'soft shoeing' of Sammy on some sections.

One final non audio point made by many others - reading 'sleeve notes' on a CD are not the same as reading from the LP. I also liked to peruse the ads for other artistes on LP inner sleeves.

I will desist further comparison before I bore!

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