On 18/06/2014, Paul Stamler wrote:

> On 6/17/2014 12:53 PM, Miller, Larry S wrote:
>> Regarding your reluctance to upgrade your system to the point where
>> you can't stand to listen to your favorite recordings, I completely
>> sympathize.
>
> Funny, I'm just getting ready to address that question in an article
> I'm working on (about a phono preamp design that's been percolating
> for several years). My suspicion is that the electronic gear that
> "makes pristine records sound better but makes imperfect records sound
> worse" is not, as is often asserted, "revealing more accurately just
> how bad these records really are". I suspect, instead, that imperfect
> records sometimes, through their imperfections (scratches, wear, etc.)
> stimulate misbehavior in the electronics which then causes us to hear
> the records as sounding worse.
>
I think it is a matter of total distortion. If the source has just
bearable distortion, and so does the player, they add up to unbearable
distortion.

So the player should be as neutral and free from distortion as possible.

Regards
--
Don Cox
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