So? I've never denied being "mental." I bet most folks here are, at least a
little bit. Reality is only what I perceive it to be, not what it really is.
Sometimes I think all of you exist only in my imagination, and so if I choose
not to imagine you, then there will be no more Olympus List.
I think I'll go now and run nekkid in the yard with an OM-4 and a silly hat.
I'll probably wear shoes, though.
Walt
--
Everybody has a photographic
memory. Some people just don't
have any film.
-------------- Original message from Winsor Crosby : --------------
>
> I used to chalk it up to hearing as well. But when I have, even on
> superb equipment, pointed out the clicks, pops, cutter rumble recorded
> on the LP, wow from off center holes, rolled off bass not equalized by
> RIAA curves, a groove that is distorted a little more each time you
> play it, and a shallow noise floor, most "analog is better types" admit
> hearing them, but insist that it still sounds better. I have concluded
> it not hearing ability. It is mental. :-)
>
>
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California
> USA
> On Jun 17, 2004, at 8:48 AM, Walt Wayman wrote:
>
> > But, oh, they sound so much better. An LP played with a good
> > cartridge and tone arm on a proper turntable, not some piece of crap
> > from Circuit City or Best Buy for $200, is still today, 20 years after
> > we were told we were getting "perfect sound forever," obviously, to
> > any but the hearing impaired, superior to a CD. And if the amp and
> > pre-amp give off both the aural and visual glow of tubes, so much the
> > better. I've got lots of CDs, but I still buy vinyl when I can find
> > it.
>
>
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