More Basic Concepts and Realities Explained
Some approaches to this audio hobby tend to produce better results than others. When your thinking about audio and records does not comport with reality, you are much less likely to achieve the improvements you seek.
Without a good stereo, it is hard to find better records. Without better records, it is hard to improve your stereo.
You need both, and thinking about them the right way, using the results of carefully run experiments — not feelings, opinions, theories, received wisdom or dogma — is surely the best way to acquire better sound.
An empirically-based approach to audio will surely result in notable improvements to the quality of your playback.
This will in turn make the job of recognizing high quality pressings — the ones you find for yourself, or the ones we find for you — much, much easier.
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