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Originally Posted by Ayn Marx
Getting a microscopically small sculptured diamond to track the grooves in an LP is a mature science the rules of which are well known.
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Sure, you can spend tens of thousands on getting a deck that eliminates some of the common problems with LPs. Like you write, it's gonna cost ya.
Or you could, you know, switch to a medium which doesn't have those problems, is more convenient and generally has better masters (digital).
Why spend thousands polishing a turd?
As someone who makes music, I find it morbidly interesting to see someone could willingly spend more money on a turntable than I spent on my entire studio.
In music production communities, they talk about GAS which is short for Gear Acquisition Syndrome which is a sort of mental illness where you just gotta have stuff or better stuff for less and less gain. You can lose sight of the important stuff. I sometimes like to think about studios like Motown and how they'd cut their cables and just twine them together. So many recording engineers, producers, musicians didn't have state of the art equip or barely knew what they were doing, yet still managed to make great music. The beauty in a song isn't found in the 70 000+ Hz frequencies that your diamond stylus can pick up (and that generally don't exist because we cut them off with an EQ).