Presenting another entry in a series of big picture observations about records and audio.
John Salvatier has written a very interesting essay. It’s not short but I think it is well worth the time it will take you to read it.
The parallels to records will be clear to anyone who has spent much time in this hobby, or on this blog for that matter.
Those of us who have run record experiments by the thousands have learned to accept results which regularly defy logic.
All the way back in 2007 we learned an important lesson regarding the vagaries of record pressings: that identical looking LPs can have dramatically different sound quality.
Even two sides of the same record can have quite different sound quality. We know, we’ve played them by the hundreds.
Further Reading