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Fair enough Nick, but I thought we were talking about the recording medium. I understand that it is hard to separate the media from the playback device, but not all sources are created equal. Still, I'm not sure if it would be fair to try vinyl or CD on the worst possible source device you can find then declare all vinyl or CDs inferior.
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Ah, well you got me sidetracked to a discussion of specs by asserting that they were pretty much all I cared about, and questioning how big the differences were.
The paradox is that the playback of LP is almost better than the LP itself, a good TT will not add much noise but this is a hygiene factor since there is relatively much more noise on the LP to start with.
I disagree with mempool here, it is easy to tell the difference between vinyl surface noise and tape noise because you do still get tape noise on CD from some recordings and it is qualitatively different.
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I'm not suggesting that your Rega was a bad deck. I'm curious; if you don't mind my asking which one was it? I used to own a P7 for about a year and was very pleased with its performance. Eventually I moved to a SOTA Star Sapphire because I found a used one for a great price.
--Jerome
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Call it rubbish if you like I do not object.
In 1984 I bought a Rega Planar 3 with the RB300 arm, actually it sits in my Brother-in-laws attic still. I had noise trouble from day one and the speed variation is a measured value 0.9% (Stereophile I think).
For popular music the noise could be more or less buried but for classical recordings the quiet passages were really hard to take. I add I was very careful with my records.
The vinyl recording and playback system is inherently noisy, you just need to read Ben Bauer's papers in the JAES, when you consider how vinyl playback works it is impressive that the noise is even as low as it is.