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This whole vinyl thing got re-started a year ago. I had this 1990s era Pro-ject turntable which needed fixing, along with an amp and the speakers. I figured, why not, I have a lot of old vinyl. Fix the motor, got a new Ortofon cartridge. Got speakers re-coned. Put on Chicago's first album (CTA)… and WOW! The tone of good vinyl is crazy good. I'd long forgotten how good it really is. Sold the 1990s Pro-ject to a friend and got a new one (I was surprised they are still in business).
Then, looked for a nice vintage high-end turntable to restore. All I could afford. So, about $500 went into buying a fixable Sony 2251 and another $250, for the new Nagaoka cartridge. And there we are, at the moment. Anyhow, that Chicago album...
And good vinyl is the key. Years back I bought a so-called digital record player that was designed to allow me to convert my LPs over into digital. It came with very complicated software to allow me to act like a mini recording studio while playing my own LPs. I quickly learned how a minor scratch on an LP can sound like a major scratch in digital. I finally canned the whole idea.
The high-end digital "production level" (very large files) is addictive.
I spent 3 hours today listening to classical guitar in digital format. Love it.
Should note, most of my equipment experience comes from guitars and guitar amps. Here tube technology still rules. Just because of the harmonics issues. There are very few solid-state guitar amps, that can be made to sound good --- without a ton of pre-amp pedal use or post recording studio magic.
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ok i suspect that you know that this is a result of clipping.
Overdriven Solid state amps clip into a square wave, when we do Fourier analysis of the resulting waveform we get only the upper order odd harmonics and none of the even harmonics. This provides a much higher frequency signal. tubes don't share this behavior. instead fattening the harmonics odd and even near the original frequency couple with some phase shifting which gives that fatter sound.
My album of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars that I purchased new at the Navy Exchange as a "kid" was and still is one of my favorite albums of all time. Cracks me up that Bowie recounted he could not remember recording the entire album.
Have some IMF TLS 80 mkII monitors =very large
Exposure 8 power amp
Musical fidelity pre amp
Sold my linn sondeck lp12 20 years ago,worth a mint now !!
I never heard of IMF. That is one vintage setup you have! I searched Google (first line of research, these days --- then Wikipedia ) and found this photo.
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