LP's and sound quality

[fossyant]

Daughter bought us a 'new' The Smiths LP for our wedding anniversary. Got round to playing it, and the sound quality isn't great, loss of range. Anyway, there are 8 tracks per side so it's been compressed - noticeably less quality than other LP's.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

The LPs I have head since the1970s ARE the true sound

For example Dark Side of The Moon sounds weird when I have heard it played live

because my copy came vis Mail Order and when it arrived the LP was bent - not flat
Hence the arm slows down fractionally when "going uphill" and speeds up fractionally when "going downhill"

so that is how I expect it to be

Wish You Were Here is also strange - my copy was very "skiddy" and I used to put a penny (OLD style) on the stylus otherwise it would skid across the disc
It worked better when I got a proper turntable in about 1980 - and I no longer needed the penny
as you can imagine the sound changed a bit
BUT THAT IS THE CORRECT SOUND
because that was what I listened to in my bedroom right through my teenage years

 

[SpokeyDokey]

The LPs I have head since the1970s ARE the true sound

For example Dark Side of The Moon sounds weird when I have heard it played live

because my copy came vis Mail Order and when it arrived the LP was bent - not flat
Hence the arm slows down fractionally when "going uphill" and speeds up fractionally when "going downhill"

so that is how I expect it to be

Wish You Were Here is also strange - my copy was very "skiddy" and I used to put a penny (OLD style) on the stylus otherwise it would skid across the disc
It worked better when I got a proper turntable in about 1980 - and I no longer needed the penny
as you can imagine the sound changed a bit
BUT THAT IS THE CORRECT SOUND
because that was what I listened to in my bedroom right through my teenage years

The joys of vinyl.

 

[postman]

The joys of vinyl.

Oh Matron ,no piccies required.

 

[Pblakeney]

Daughter bought us a 'new' The Smiths LP for our wedding anniversary. Got round to playing it, and the sound quality isn't great, loss of range. Anyway, there are 8 tracks per side so it's been compressed - noticeably less quality than other LP's.

All recordings are not equal, all pressing are not equal, and anything "re-mastered" is certainly not equal.

 

[fossyant]

Well, an original older LP is on (Thompson Twins) and it sounds way better. So it's definitely not my 40 year old JVC separates system (it's has a new needle).

We're off to see Tom Bailey of the Thompson Twins and Blancmange tomorrow.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Oh Matron ,no piccies required.

You are certainly not getting any piccies of me alone in my room when I was a teenager!!!!

 

[farfromtheland]

Daughter bought us a 'new' The Smiths LP for our wedding anniversary. Got round to playing it, and the sound quality isn't great, loss of range. Anyway, there are 8 tracks per side so it's been compressed - noticeably less quality than other LP's.

I guess the album was 'remastered' from the 44.1 sample rate cd quality file. This standard is poor for editing,
probably not 'compression' as such.

When working as a sound engineer I used a minimum of 88.2 KHz, which presenves high frequency resonances and is almost as good as high-end analogue quality.

 

[ianrauk]

Daughter bought us a 'new' The Smiths LP for our wedding anniversary. Got round to playing it, and the sound quality isn't great, loss of range. Anyway, there are 8 tracks per side so it's been compressed - noticeably less quality than other LP's.

That's The Smiths for you 😀

 

[fossyant]

That's The Smiths for you 😀

How very dare you !

 

[fossyant]

We've played a few LP's today. How very quaint getting up every 20 minutes to flip it over.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

We've played a few LP's today. How very quaint getting up every 20 minutes to flip it over.

This is one of the many reasons why Millennials and Gen Z are less fit and healthy than older generations. Also see, TV remote and doom scrolling

 

[ktmbiker58]

We've played a few LP's today. How very quaint getting up every 20 minutes to flip it over.

20 minutes pah - last night I listened to Beethovens Concerto No 3 in C Minor on 78s that required 7 flips at 5 minute intervals - I think I've got my 10,000 steps in

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Daughter bought us a 'new' The Smiths LP for our wedding anniversary. Got round to playing it, and the sound quality isn't great, loss of range. Anyway, there are 8 tracks per side so it's been compressed - noticeably less quality than other LP's.

Isn't there a meme, along the lines of

Tommy Has One Smiths LP (or was it Morrisey?)
He Bought Another One

What Does Tommy Have Now?

Depression..............

 

[MontyVeda]

Daughter bought us a 'new' The Smiths LP for our wedding anniversary. Got round to playing it, and the sound quality isn't great, loss of range. Anyway, there are 8 tracks per side so it's been compressed - noticeably less quality than other LP's.

have they stuck a load of 'bonus' tracks on it?