On Tuesday, 17 January 2017 13:11:47 UTC, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 17/01/17 12:41, DerbyBorn wrote:
at one time with turntables we used to study specifications looking at Wow
and Flutter, Rumble and other characterisitics.

You can now buy a turntable for about £50 to output to a MP3 file.

Are they rubbish

Vinyl surface noises sounds horrible when compressed at low bit rates

why use low bit rates

and cartridges in cheap decks will almost certainly be ceramic.

Everyone knows the grotty ceramics of the 60s. By the 80s ceramic pickup technology had matured, and one could get something ceramic to rival most hifi pickups for a few australian peanuts. Few would ever admit it, but it wasn't hard to fool people on that point.


NT