Recent content by Rapscallion

All vinyl will be just a CD pressed into plastic. ie digitally mastered. A record player is a very old and poor recovery method for music. The bass (and treble) from the speakers affects the record player but on digital SSD there is no possibility to affect the bass. Digital is the best method...

Exact. One of my favourite bands only made a few albums and they managed to sell them on vinyl , CD and streaming......They have lots of money....good trick.

No do not try to upgrade. Just replace all the electrolytics and clean out the possible dust and dead insects. Arcam is quality stuff especially the old amps. I think bi-amps only work with active filters...the only benefit is that you have halved your cable runs ohmage.

I don't know the full specifications of the equipment but I had a quick look and basically those types of amplifiers have no power capabilities. Most quality Hi-Fi is for instance say you have some 8 ohm speakers that handle 100 Watts each then you will need to find an amplifier that can output...

It is a fashion statement. Not many people have a quality system or care about audio fidelity. There is also quite a lot of music hard to find on digital platforms that is available in charity shops and junk sales. A lot of people who collected vinyl are now dying off and the record collections...

Albums are : INXS - Welcome to Wherever You Are. Tom Waits - Rain Dog's. Jim Lampi - Greazy. Sorry for the confusion....I thought it was tracks. Anyway top 3 is a bit hard how about a top 100 ?

Concrete Jungle - Bob Marley and The Wailers. Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin. Just Because - Jane's Addiction. With ever advancing recording quality some music is less worth recording. I mean Django Reinhardt is fantastic music with poor recordings now sometimes you get poor music with a...

Tom Waits - Going Out West Can not rally get better Rock and Roll. The recording is spot on and the video performance is even better. For checking a sound system it is really the business.