![]() This is made worse by any foreign material (like dust) in the groove, and very few people clean their records thoroughly before each trip to the TT (especially those in their youth). Vinyl also wears, and a stylus can't help but take a little tiny bit of surface material with it over years of play. As nothing is 100% elastic, the contours of the groove walls are subtly altered over time by inelastic deformation. Vinyl is elastic, i.e. it deforms under pressure and resumes its prior shape when the pressure is removed. Both playing and aging vinyl will alter its properties in ways that degrade fidelity to the recorded signal. It's hard to believe that those " old LPs from my youth" are pristine, unworn, and untouched by the ravages of time and storage conditions. ![]() As a musician, I've owned and used dozens of ADC boxes over the years, and the basic 2x2 USB interfaces from most music industry leaders are excellent units that will do everything you need and more for a fraction of the cost of some of the devices recommended above. With all due respect to those who've suggested "better" stuff, you might find my approach to have some merit for you. (I have a Mac Mini front end with 3500 CDs ripped plus Tidal as my digital source, feeding the DSD.) Ultimately, my goal is to digitize some existing LPs, and probably acquire some select titles in the future (primarily where mastering is clearly better on the vinyl vs digital release, or perhaps a few personal favorites that have very nice physical packaging to enjoy), and listen to this music from my digital setup instead of directly from vinyl. The other option I have earmarked as a baseline in a 2 piece setup is a high quality phono stage, plus the Korg DS-DAC-10R. The NPC of course is discontinued but a few are still available at the closeout pricing or occasionally pop up on secondary markets. I've had their DirectStream DAC for a few years now and it's been fantastic. Right now my baseline pick is a PS Audio Nuwave Phono Converter. So I'm pretty open on options in terms of a one or two piece solution. I also don't have a phono stage really commensurate with the Classic - I'm using an Emotiva XPS-1 which I've had for a few years. I've recently picked up a VPI Classic TT with Ortofon Bronze cartridge, but don't have any kind of ADC capability as of yet. It’s also about insulting a fiction genre.I have some old LPs from my youth that I'm looking to convert to digital. ![]() If anything, I wonder whether a very large proportion of the novel’s readers were indeed teens, helping it to reach its sales figures of more than 200 million copies in 44 languages.īut the outrage at this publishing decision is not just about patronising teenagers. got it? And so did my cousin, aged 13, who read three other Dan Brown books afterwards, and, it seems, so did many other teens. So, if the book made me think about some of my most important values, I guess I. Visual art has since become a big part of my identity. While reading The Da Vinci Code, I stared at my dad’s book of reproductions of Leonardo’s paintings for hours. Secondly, the book got me into thinking about art. The protests that ensued in the Catholic and the Christian Orthodox Churches only confirmed my new discovery that, alongside important values, religion held a lot of… myths. And Brown came just at the right time, with his theory of an anti-feminist conspiracy of the Church in having erased Magdalene’s role in Jesus’s and Christianity’s lives. Feminism and religion, in my teen mind, contradicted each other. Influenced by my religious grandmother and school, I collected icons as a child and was all into bells and smells. To be honest, it probably wouldn’t have hooked me in as much were I reading it later.īrown’s novel did two crucial things for me at the age when I started thinking hard about who I was and what was important to me.įirstly, it helped me take religion as a story rather than the story. I was also 12 when I read the Da Vinci Code. Didn't exactly struggle.- Patrick Sproull May 18, 2016
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