well, i would never take the money for my kids future studies that already happened to spend on hi-fi components, but i do sometimes forget and spend lot´s of money in things i didn´t needed but it would improve my listening to vinil as advertised. I had looked for what was Mofi but at the end my conclusion is that they really worked a lot to achieve their intension or purpose but i lost myself when seeing Mofi cartridges and turntable and the sound was really good but not my interpretation of a good sound ,i like to hear all instruments recorded at the levels they intendent to when releasing the record all those remasterings and remixes are what i call raping the music or if sold ,it should be at very low prices ,like buying a good recorded cassette not spending a lot of money in new versions of what they think it should be the sound of a record released long ago ,as an example i some years ago read a article that was the frontman of Jethro Tull complaining about their first album sound and explaining where it was recorded and the studios in two diferent floors where the rolling Stones had recorded too. Now the record is how he wanted to be when released ,i think the guy was paid or just have his brain destroyd by the drugs ,i say this because when listening for the first time Aqualung ,i was like amazed by the sound of the band and the record sound itself i thought it was very original and good sounding ,at the same time innovative, the level one puts when listening the first track does sounded new to me as a break through to what was the standart type of recording a album, this refering to the levels of the tracks in the first music because it kind of explodes when the electric guitar and drums appear, and he complaining about that , just to say that if that album in his opinion should never sound like that ,today no one would knew that a band called jetrho tull existed ,maybe their highschool friends at the most and also i think i have to refer when buying their new records i liked at first listening but notice always a decrease in quality or if the first album wasn´t released as it was i would never get interested in this band that, i don´t remenber the name of the album, from a certain point i stoped buying his albums because they were more of the same with changes that sounded really bad. Other song in this case is a whiter shade of pale from Procul Harum ,they released a new rematered version, that sounded very well but like if the song was raped , i know that the original is not a master piece in sound but it´s how it get known by most of the people in the world and i remenber enjoying very much the song ,when released i didn´t knew it but later in time when going through my father records i was amazed by it ,also had other Procul Harum LP´s and singles, i remenber one that was a doble single with some presentation made with taste for the time it was released but none of those songs i enjoyed, the new version is just a crime in my opinion.
I arrived to the conclusion that this new wave of turntables and records also cartridges and new stylus are what i never thought it would be, i two years ago tried to find some new cartridges for my old turntables that were very good sounding to me, but not knowing exactelly the specifications of my old cartridges i went to buy them for what they sounded and i started to listen the cartridges, when looking at the prices, the ones that came closer were getting too expensive , that´s when i understood that this new wave of turntables ,even being expensive and having supposed to be good stylus but or one uses a very expensive amplifier and speakers or this turntables would never sound as they did till early 90´s that i know off . I normally say ,when asked about what one should expect of a record and it´s sound played in a turntable is "if the sound is better to the point of when changing to cd listening after listening to records, they would sound very bad no matter what cd player one has" this i say based on a 83 pioneer turntable that i opened maybe in 2017 that it was direct drive had a HUCO swiss stylus in substitution of the AT 95, the reference was PL-430 it sounded ok it was heavy , it had a good box of metal it had a tonearm with good quality ,made of a polymere of graphite ,as it says in the manual ,i sold it for a 100€ to a friend who wanted only to listen to a few records he had bought in the 80´s or late 70´s . In my opinion wasn´t that good but being new and working with perfection i have to say that it was a good turntable. After this what can i say of Project turntables or rega or even in a totally diferent way ,the Fluance, i had not heard more than one but recentelly i heard other two models and being cheaper they do give a close experience of what was the sound of a record ,some Pro-ject around 1.000€ are so bad that i couldn´t believe what i heard, the REGA are not that good but superior in quality to the Pro-ject ones, so all over the world people are being fooled by spending money on the most bad sounding turntables i ever heard ,this makes me say that any plastic turntable released in the 80´s instead of bad were perfect, i could go on but i think i already wrotte more than i should to catch the attention of another menber , sorry for my bad english
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