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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Mellotronics M3000 HD for iPad

From: william Beith <wbeith@sbcglobal.net>
Date: 2010-12-28

I grew up on The Beatles listening on a Motorola mono machine with a 15 woofer and a 3 inch paper cone tweeter. Wonderful top load machine.
 
Last year my sister-in-law asked me to make several old family records into CD's for a family reunion, and gave me a turntable to play the vinyl. I have a rack mount pre amp with a phono input so the entire process was seamless.
 
While I was at it I made copies of my old Beatles albums. I have a pristine copy of the Second Album (American version on Capital) which I recorded into Sound Forge and made into a CD. The difference between that sound and the CD is astounding. The vinyl version leaps out at you, the additional echo and compression added by the Capital engineers, missing from the Abby Road CD's is quite the contrast. (and the version of Thank You Girl on the album is different from the CD. The vinyl has a harp solo at the end of the track, missing from the CD.)
 
Maybe this is just personal preference from growing up with them, but listening to those recordings again makes me favor the American vinyl versions over the official CD's.  The vinyl has more depth, punch and excitement.
 
Bill
 

From: Tony <atm655@verizon.net>
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, December 28, 2010 2:47:37 PM
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Mellotronics M3000 HD for iPad

 

The Victrola is 78 RPM, kinda hard to listen to "modern music".
But it entertained my great grand parents, hence the "retention" of the device.
We had a Motorola HiFi too, spun my "Meet the Beatles" on it in mono too.
 
I don't understand why so many people still want vinyl, not much channel seperation or dynamic range there.
And I'm also a trained audio engineer and piano tuner, so no "tin ear" here.
 
Tony
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Mellotronics M3000 HD for iPad

 

Cool. I still have my parents' old Motorola HiFi. Mono... Excellent for listening to early Beatles and Beach Boys records. I haven't used it in 25 years.
 
In a message dated 12/28/2010 2:50:58 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, atm655@verizon.net writes:
 

I have a Victrola, been in the family for a very long time, and it looks and works fine.
Not for sale at any price.
Tony
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Mellotronics M3000 HD for iPad

 

Does your HiFi include a Victrola? ;-)
 
In a message dated 12/28/2010 1:09:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, tronbros@aol.com writes:
We have put the iPad through our standard hifi system and it sound amazing - especially our app!  Serously, the audio is first class.