Vinyl

Those corners are a real nuiscance. In my old house I had 2 to contend with as well as fireplace that stuck out. Now in my new house it's much better although there is still a corner with a door. Generally the sound is decent although I do definitely get better sound from the left speaker. It's a floor standing speaker but I've had to treat it like a cabinet speaker for the sake of getting a cabinet into the allotted space. I've then raised the right speaker off the floor by putting it on a small table which is out of view. Altogether much happier. ( i do have a turntable but it's to the side of the camera in another corner)

Catcher10 wrote: ^ Speaker placement is the most important setup to get as right as possible. Glad you recognized that R speaker is not optimal. Ideally if you can pull them out from the back wall and away from the side walls that will improve the soundstage....a lot. Plus that is a free tweak that pays back. Just try it, some people will pull the speakers out if they cannot stay there normally, then put them back against the wall. Put some tape down so you know where to put them the next time after you find the right spot. The starting spot is an equilateral triangle from your listening spot.

And actually, that's what the set up is, except that it's for my desk. In front of my desk is a couch for chillin' and that will be the new sweet spot. Plus I don't subscribe to heavy toed in speaker thing. I find a more subtle angle to provide a better dispersion of sound while still maintaining the sound stage works better.

JD wrote: Catcher10 wrote: ^ Speaker placement is the most important setup to get as right as possible. Glad you recognized that R speaker is not optimal. Ideally if you can pull them out from the back wall and away from the side walls that will improve the soundstage....a lot. Plus that is a free tweak that pays back. Just try it, some people will pull the speakers out if they cannot stay there normally, then put them back against the wall. Put some tape down so you know where to put them the next time after you find the right spot. The starting spot is an equilateral triangle from your listening spot.  And actually, that's what the set up is, except that it's for my desk. In front of my desk is a couch for chillin' and that will be the new sweet spot. Plus I don't subscribe to heavy toed in speaker thing. I find a more subtle angle to provide a better dispersion of sound while still maintaining the sound stage works better. Poor JD, always chasing the elusive perfect sound.

The picture shows exaggerated toe in, mine are very slight maybe 12mm toe in. Again it’s a free tweak to play with speaker position.

David_D wrote: Catcher10 wrote: David_D wrote: JD wrote: Welcome Back My Friends to the Debate That Never Ends...Ladies and Gentlemen LP or CD ? Btw, now can this debate be done in a more objective way compared to in the 1980s when the new CD technology was promoted by whatever means. Go ahead and start that debate, you first.... I've already said what I have to say....more or less.

JD wrote: I think I got it right. Listening to Trilogy now and WOW. Lovin' it !

This is for sure good news, for us vinyl lovers. Finally a new pressing machine is available for plants to purchase, most plants are working with presses that are from the 60s-70s probably and need retooling, which is probably too cost prohibitive.

Some records bought over the last week or so:

I’m very proud of my vinyl collection. 50 years of collecting NM copies of everything I’ve loved over the years. Nice cabinets to store them in. A decent system to play them on. It’s a great hobby, but I buy CDs regularly as well. As for sound, I believe that it’s vinyls lack of digital precision that makes it sound warmer and fills room with an imperfect sound that I know and love from my youth, like a concert. But I don’t diss the perfection of CD quality.   I try to stay away from vinyl re-issues that were just copied from a CD. But it’s hard to determine that. My best example of poor re-issued vinyl would be Hawkwind 180 gram re-issues I bought. The original vinyl outclasses the re-issues noticeably. I’d go as far as to say the reissues I bought are garbage with nice packaging.

Yep the vinyl edition I have of ELP - Brain Salad Surgery is very poor, the Sony CD reissue beats it into a cocked hat.

JD wrote: It absolutely kills me when they advertise vinyl releases with big HypeStickers "CUT FROM 24 BIT/96KHZ FILES". Ok...so maybe I'll just buy the CD then.