Comments on Profile Post by Thad E Ginathom

I think what I'd really like would be high-quality rips of good, clean vinyl.

Personally, I don't think that digital needs to be inferior to physical analogue, but I do know that a lot of CDs and "remastered" stuff is awful.

Vinyl rips is the best of both worlds.

From the little I know about the affair, it seems to fall under "The cover up is worse than the crime" (broadly construed).

I have a large collection of classical performances originally released on 78's, and never released as LPs. They're transferred to CD by *extremely* talented engineers, such as Ward Marston; and are released by boutique audio firms, who release their work on CD rather than files.

I’m into it, for cds more so now. I have a few cd types I will always pick up, RCA red seal, Sony classical rips, and AU20 cds, maybe a few mini lp cds too. I’d pick up some older philips cds from the 80s too. Factories got treated like clean rooms.

For content where the highest quality remaining version is on a record, it makes total sense to do a digital copy of that record played back on the best possible equipment.

I love needle drops. Sometimes the best "version" of an album is a needle drop. Since you really can't score that original pressing, or refuse to pay for it !

Just prior to the MoFi mess, I started dialing back my acquisition of *new* physical media to mostly boutique releases (Bandcamp, etc.) and box sets. Anything else is used: scouring local, occasionally here, and $4 CDs on the bay.

My heart is still in the hobby; just my accumulation of "things" needs to be apportioned appropriately.

Record collecting is fun if you don't let it get out of hand. Out of hand, for me anyway, is dropping more than $50 on an LP on the regular. Never mind $125 +

Of course, good used bin scores are harder and harder to find in these tulip-craze-like times. Which is why spending, say, $40 on a good re-issue starts to seem a sensible idea. You never see old Blue Note in the wild now, for example, and buying on Discogs, even when supposedly VG+, is often disappointing. So the re-issues are great.

I've got a couple Mo-Fi Miles, b/c Miles is in such heavy demand it's hard to get good used copies. They're DSD-sourced, solid, not amazing, IMO, and I thought that before Mo-Fi gate. But you get a quiet copy for your cash.