I don't have the patience for vinyl, but I have to admit this is pretty cool
https://maglevaudio.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky0D00iyHAA
https://maglevaudio.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky0D00iyHAA
Cool yes, but technically quite flawed I'd imagine.
Looking at the video, there is a definite up/down movement of the platter as it spins. Not good!
Looking at the video, there is a definite up/down movement of the platter as it spins. Not good!
Plus there is no device to help hold the record flat which a lot of higher end players seem to have.
That's probably a good thing. Clamping the record in the centre only makes it "ping" like a guitar string. Also not good. Even if it does look all technical and precise. Got to love a bit of high end hypocrisy!!
This all makes me grateful that I ditched all my analog gear many moons ago including my Nakamichi tape deck and Dual Turntable. I don't miss them at all. Tape hiss, cleaning records, demagnetizing tape heads, tapes stretching out or getting eaten, static guns, etc.. etc.. It all feels like death by a thousand cuts.
Now I skip the purgatory and just play whatever I want instantly and build whatever high resolution playlists I want.
Agree for the most part. I'd also add "using CDs" to the "Death by a thousand cuts" list too!
LOL .................I don't even see the 'cool' factor !
Me either! Just another way to pry rich folks from their money, look...I can stick my hand or another part of my male anatomy under it
Give me an old Thorens any day of the week, with a great arm/cart combo and Mark, you are missing something my friend. I know you have a great ear, love your digital streamed gear. I use some myself, very clean...maybe too clean. What is music?
It's a vibration, not a computer's version in 1's and 0's. I'll not knock anyone's method of enjoyment, nor say they are wrong. Most of the music from WWII till the 1990's was made with microphones to a big tape deck, this was re-mixed on to another tape or a digital DAC, which sounds better? F if I know for sure, my ears love that analog realness, my Momma didn't raise no fool, digital has gotten very close to what it needs to preserve the realness of the producer. There are just some things that anyone who understands how a plucked string, or the tone a piece of wood vibrates can enjoy when they hear it. Sometimes it takes a rock drug through a ditch to achieve bliss
Sadly I'm about to move my speakers to make room for a large Christmas tree (one of three we set up) and I won't have my listening area back until mid-January.
Can't you make do with two Christmas trees?
"I" could
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