More Heavy Vinyl Commentaries and Reviews
I got this idea while thinking about the old saying:
Fast, cheap and good – pick two.
I’ve modified this saying into a version for audiophiles that takes into account that although some record collectors with top quality equipment may want to pursue the modern Heavy Vinyl pressing, they will run into the unavoidable reality that as their stereo continues to sound better, their new Heavy Vinyl records will start sounding worse.
They may want to get many things out of audio and record collecting, but they can’t have it all.
As will explain in detail further on, they will be forced to limit themselves to two of the following three.
Let’s assume that the audiophiles who collect modern records are those who:
- Want to have a revealing, accurate stereo.
- Want to be able to enjoy their favorite music.
- Want to continue to buy Heavy Vinyl pressings because they enjoy buying and collecting those records.
So let’s look at what happens when they pick one of the only three combinations that are logically available to them:
If they pick one and two, they get to keep their good stereo, and they can continue to enjoy their favorite music on it, but they will not be able to play Heavy Vinyl pressings anymore and will have to stop buying them.
On high-quality equipment those records reveal their manifest shortcomings and are simply no fun to play. They can have one and two but not three.
Damn!
What about one and three then?
If they pick one and three, they can still have excellent stereo reproduction in the home, and they can still buy and collect Heavy Vinyl pressings to their heart’s content, but they will not be able to enjoy the pressings they buy. Those pressings will simply not sound very good on a system that is working properly.
One hopes that before too long these folks will recognize that all they were doing was buying junk vinyl from the grifters exploiting the lo-fi and mid-fi crowd while pretending to appeal to the higher end of the market.
The lo-fi/mid-fi types are those who, lacking high-quality playback, are simply not able to tell the difference. Good systems make it easy to expose the incompetence of the pretentious hacks who make these new records.
Bad systems let them get away with murder.