More like a round of Nagaoka vs MC...Might this now turn into a manic search for vinyl to replace those given away and maybe a round of "Kuzma versus..............."
More like a round of Nagaoka vs MC...Might this now turn into a manic search for vinyl to replace those given away and maybe a round of "Kuzma versus..............."
Twas only a jest I have had it with equipment, had a Voyd and an LP12 in the past and always find it different but not necessarily better.Ok .. you have a top class turntable - stop the what if?
You will get different flavours of sound and presentation by changing it but the thing is - what do you not like about your turntable and the sound it produces? Once you have identified if there is a problem to your ears and what it is, then you can go about sorting it .. other than that leave alone and just enjoy the music ..
Had nice MC's in the past as well, Lyra's, Miltek, Micro Benz, same tale.More like a round of Nagaoka vs MC...
Oi time to sleep go to bed. Don’t think of selling your house at 3:00 in the morning.Post script
Just bought It's Immaterial House for Sale on Vinyl, been 27 years or so in the making and I have the other two on vinyl so it makes sense to have this.
It's immaterial Song was going to be one of the hard cd's to find but that nightmare is over now, sorry to waste your time guys.
Absolutely true about the landfill stuff. I always say that the fact my setup uses far too much electricity is compensated for by all the stuff I have saved from being chucked. My better half will testify to my propensity for saving stuff from going to landfill, as is easily evidenced by a tour of my workshop, home and garage. Although a 'tour' of the garage probably requires some prowess in mountaineering.CD rot is real though rare - applies to my Harnoncourt Bach Cantata CDs. I think with CDs and LPs it's supply and demand - rare stuff has value, and the rest is charity shop. The problem is collections. Few people have the time or strength of mind to list items individually on eBay and profits would be tiny after charges. It's a bit like selling valve collections - some are valuable and TV set valves are landfill. There's just too much redundant hardware - mountains of it. Applies to cars, clothes and most other things. Junk is a real issue in a consumer world. And that's not even to speak of the radioactive junk needing disposal. Companies have never been invoiced for the junk they create - nobody cares.
I Care ...My son in law even brings me “junk” he finds in skips ..LP’s . Speakers ,so I can retrieve the drivers and the occasional Japanese turntable ..You wouldn’t believe what gets thrown away when families are clearing houses after a bereavement.CD rot is real though rare - applies to my Harnoncourt Bach Cantata CDs. I think with CDs and LPs it's supply and demand - rare stuff has value, and the rest is charity shop. The problem is collections. Few people have the time or strength of mind to list items individually on eBay and profits would be tiny after charges. It's a bit like selling valve collections - some are valuable and TV set valves are landfill. There's just too much redundant hardware - mountains of it. Applies to cars, clothes and most other things. Junk is a real issue in a consumer world. And that's not even to speak of the radioactive junk needing disposal. Companies have never been invoiced for the junk they create - nobody cares.
There are some CDs which are known to have reliability issues. Probably the most famous and problematic ones are the CDs made in the 1980s and early 1990s by PDO in the UK. These are known to suffer from the 'bronzing' problem. Some CDs pressed during around the same period in Italy have bronzing problems as well. There may be some other CDs with bronzing issues, but I suspect the great majority of them are PDO UK discs. PDO CDs pressed outside of the UK seem to be fine.CD rot? Sure as hell. I've binned about half a dozen over the last decade that have become unplayable. AFAIK, it only affects certain manufacturing plants at certain periods, but of course you have no idea where 'your' CDs were made. Most writable CDs have details of their expected life, and it's usually quoted at around 100 years, though rewritable 'RW' discs are much shorter and 'average' means just that.
Im now going to be looking at all my cd's..to see who made them.. If they're sticky? ( could be marmalade? ) if the reflective film is up the duff? ( could be my eyes?) i have to keep down a job..practice my Ukulele..think deep thoughts! I dont have time for cd evaluation! Think ill keep with Qobuz...no chaffing..no stickiness..and no worriesThere are some CDs which are known to have reliability issues. Probably the most famous and problematic ones are the CDs made in the 1980s and early 1990s by PDO in the UK. These are known to suffer from the 'bronzing' problem. Some CDs pressed during around the same period in Italy have bronzing problems as well. There may be some other CDs with bronzing issues, but I suspect the great majority of them are PDO UK discs. PDO CDs pressed outside of the UK seem to be fine.
Sticky Nimbus CDs made in the UK, and sometimes in the US, can be a problem as well. These problematic discs sometimes aren't necessarily unreadable, but they need to be treated with care or else they might develop problems from mishandling. They certainly should not be washed the way most other CDs can be washed without problem.
Some very early CDs, which were often made in Japan, have been reported to have problems with the reflective layer developing holes in them. It seems that these problems were ironed out pretty early on though. I have some very early CDs made in Japan in 1983-4 and they're perfectly fine.
Given that a large percentage of problematic discs were pressed in the UK, it wouldn't surprise me if CD buyers in the UK will have more problems with CDs than those living elsewhere like here in the US. That said, we certainly got a fair number of pop/classical CDs which were made by PDO UK like some from the Polygram/Universal labels and from British classical labels such as Hyperion and ASV.
As a whole though, the great majority of CDs seem to have been pressed with sufficient care. That's pretty impressive when you consider all the companies which have pressed CDs and how there is constant pressure for cost-cutting. I don't think I have to go out on a limb to say that CDs have been made with greater consistency than LPs. CDs may pose some issues for archivists wanting to preserve media for hundreds of years, but I don't think the average home album collector has much to worry about unless they're expecting to live to be 150 years old or something like that. xD
I'm also not so sure about the comment that people don't know where CDs are made. CDs made since the mid-1990s usually have IFPI codes on them which can be looked up to determine which pressing plant made the CDs. CDs made since the mid-1990s are usually not problematic so you might say that isn't too helpful, but even older CDs usually have information in the matrix which can be used to determine who made the CD.
For example if you see this...
...you know to check for bronzing.
As for CD-Rs, I have a good number of CD-Rs which were burned 20 or more years ago. Some of these were burned on respected media like Mitsubishi Azo Verbatim Data Life Plus discs, but a lot were burned on cheap discs made by the likes of CMC Magnetics and Ritek. I will say that they are brand name discs from CMC and Ritek so they are probably at least A-grade discs from those manufacturers. Anyway, I've recently scanned those CD-Rs for errors and almost all of them are reporting extremely low C1 correctable errors and no C2 non-correctable errors. They're basically scanning the way a newly burned CD-R would scan. Thus, I have no reason to think that those CD-Rs will become troublesome anytime soon.
Granted, I have stored those CD-Rs well and I think that has helped a lot. CD-Rs, especially the early cyanine dye CD-Rs, are quite sensitive to UV rays so they need to be stored properly.
Looking up IFPI codes can be quite addicting. xD If you really want to become obsessive about CD evaluation, get your hands on a PC CD/DVD drive which is known to produce good scans for C1 and C2 errors (some drives can even scan for jitter as well) and then use free programs like Nero DiscSpeed or QPXtool to do the scanning. Klassik has spent quite a few hours looking up what I already knew that my CDs are in excellent condition.Im now going to be looking at all my cd's..to see who made them.. If they're sticky? ( could be marmalade? ) if the reflective film is up the duff? ( could be my eyes?) i have to keep down a job..practice my Ukulele..think deep thoughts! I dont have time for cd evaluation! Think ill keep with Qobuz...no chaffing..no stickiness..and no worries
A quick search shows that Living Era is/was a sublabel of ASV, a British label who was known to have CDs made by PDO UK. Thus, I wouldn't be surprised if your Pearl Bailey disc was pressed by PDO UK. :SI bought a Pearl Bailey compilation on the Living Era label recently - part of a job lot of about 60 jazz CDs. This CD had a number small holes in the silver layer - very peculiar, never seen that before. Sure enough it wouldn't play through.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that it has something to do with climate? Heat and humidity.