More Entries from Tom’s Audiophile Notebook
On this blog we have a section devoted to a great many questions that often come up when audiophiles are thinking about records.
By clicking on the link above, you will find, among other subjects, discussions of the “working knowledge” some collectors use to identify what they believe to be pressings with superior sound.
To be sure, these are some very important questions, which, judging by what I read on the web, many audiophiles think they have the answers to.
Before we go any farther, we should make our position on these questions clear to our readers.
We’re really not that interested in big questions, mostly because there aren’t any big answers for them.
When it comes to records, being able to reveal deep underlying truths about a wide range of vinyl pressings is simply not possible. To be honest, we don’t think it can be done.
Knowledge
It’s not that we don’t have plenty of working knowledge. It’s that we have so much of it that we needed a blog to hold it all so that we could share it with others.
No, our working knowledge is made up of lots of little bits of data that guide us in discovering the best sounding pressings for the individual titles we choose to play.
It would be nice to have general rules to help us in our search for better sound on vinyl, but our experience tells us that general rules are so unreliable that they fail to function as rules at all.