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Author Topic: Yggdrasil vs Gungnir Multibit (Yggy vs. Gumby) Comprehensive Comparison  (Read 12393 times)

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Re: Yggdrasil vs Gungnir Multibit (Yggy vs. Gumby) Comprehensive Comparison
« Reply #20 on: August 23, 2015, 06:21:09 AM »
Quote from: insidious meme on August 23, 2015, 06:15:14 AM
Not really. Stillheart knows all. "Death to purrin's sycophants!"

How little he knows. You guys do realize that I use this dome in camp Pendleton to control your minds.

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Re: Yggdrasil vs Gungnir Multibit (Yggy vs. Gumby) Comprehensive Comparison
« Reply #21 on: August 23, 2015, 06:37:27 AM »
Quote from: Merv on August 23, 2015, 06:18:38 AM
Well shit. It was the best darn thing I'd heard in all aspects until fairly recently.
WTF,  Yggy is not on the top of your list now??? What has toppled the Yggy from its pedestal?
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Re: Yggdrasil vs Gungnir Multibit (Yggy vs. Gumby) Comprehensive Comparison
« Reply #22 on: August 23, 2015, 07:09:09 AM »
Quote from: lukeap69 on August 23, 2015, 06:37:27 AM
WTF,  Yggy is not on the top of your list now??? What has toppled the Yggy from its pedestal?

Vinyl
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Re: Yggdrasil vs Gungnir Multibit (Yggy vs. Gumby) Comprehensive Comparison
« Reply #23 on: August 23, 2015, 07:50:25 AM »
Quote from: Anaxilus on August 23, 2015, 07:09:09 AM
Vinyl

Ha! New customers for TTVJ! ☺
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Re: Yggdrasil vs Gungnir Multibit (Yggy vs. Gumby) Comprehensive Comparison
« Reply #24 on: August 23, 2015, 11:00:18 AM »
Quote from: lukeap69 on August 23, 2015, 07:50:25 AM
Ha! New customers for TTVJ! ☺


Once again a reminder that when you think you've reached your end-game, there is no end-game... (sigh)
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Re: Yggdrasil vs Gungnir Multibit (Yggy vs. Gumby) Comprehensive Comparison
« Reply #25 on: August 23, 2015, 11:48:12 AM »
run us through your vinyl rig marv?
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Re: Yggdrasil vs Gungnir Multibit (Yggy vs. Gumby) Comprehensive Comparison
« Reply #26 on: August 23, 2015, 11:58:11 AM »
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Re: Yggdrasil vs Gungnir Multibit (Yggy vs. Gumby) Comprehensive Comparison
« Reply #27 on: August 23, 2015, 08:12:47 PM »
Quote from: Anaxilus on August 23, 2015, 07:09:09 AM
Vinyl
Having mastered vinyl, that knocks down my mental impression of Yggy (which I have not heard) a notch.

Having spent a lifetime fussing with table/arm/cartridge adjustments, record cleaning, and the worst part - endless variations between pressings of a particular title - I've lost interest.

J. Gordon Holt once told me (rough quote): "The quality of the performance is inversely proportional to the quality of the recording."

My corollary is "The quality of the performance is inversely proportional to the quality of vinyl available in that year."

I stopped doing vinyl because some of my favorite albums were released during periods of a shortage of vinyl, when records were melted down with labels still on them...
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Re: Yggdrasil vs Gungnir Multibit (Yggy vs. Gumby) Comprehensive Comparison
« Reply #28 on: August 23, 2015, 09:04:11 PM »
Quote from: Original_Ken on August 23, 2015, 08:12:47 PM
Having mastered vinyl, that knocks down my mental impression of Yggy (which I have not heard) a notch.

Having spent a lifetime fussing with table/arm/cartridge adjustments, record cleaning, and the worst part - endless variations between pressings of a particular title - I've lost interest.

J. Gordon Holt once told me (rough quote): "The quality of the performance is inversely proportional to the quality of the recording."

My corollary is "The quality of the performance is inversely proportional to the quality of vinyl available in that year."

I stopped doing vinyl because some of my favorite albums were released during periods of a shortage of vinyl, when records were melted down with labels still on them...

Talk about correlation without causation. ::)

How about something more constructive like comparing your best possible sonic experience using vinyl versus the best digital experience you've had so we can get a mental impression of what it is you are actually talking about. Feel free to use names and specifics.
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Re: Yggdrasil vs Gungnir Multibit (Yggy vs. Gumby) Comprehensive Comparison
« Reply #29 on: August 23, 2015, 09:12:38 PM »
You're clearly not familiar with mastering vinyl.

It involves comparing the input to the lathe with the eventual vinyl playback.

The output of the process is colored relative to the input, so vinyl is not a good reference.

But most of my post is just saying that vinyl is no general solution because most pressings are crap.  (The ones that are not crap, i.e. the "180gram" blah blah, are done from master tapes that are old and faded)

So, if you want to listen to a particular album, it may not have a good vinyl copy, or it may take you $500 and several weeks to get one.
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