CD v Vinyl (by John Peel)

Posted by: Hammerhead on 30 October 2001

From todays Metro 30th October 2001

Metro: So your not a vinyl junkie?
John Peel: Well yes, I’d like to think I prefer vinyl but if you actually blindfolded me and put on a new record and a new CD on a good system I doubt whether I’d be able to tell them apart. I’m not one of those obsessive people.

Discuss.

Steve

[This message was edited by Stevie D on TUESDAY 30 October 2001 at 10:21.]

Posted on: 30 October 2001 by uem

I think it's not Vinyl OR CD - it has to be Vinyl AND CD....!
Just ensure they both sound good - and with NAIM you are as close as you can get..
(...No, I'm not sponsored by NAIM..)

Urs

Posted on: 30 October 2001 by Hammerhead

quote:
Originally posted by Declan:
Who cares
What John Peel thinks, or anyone else for that matter?

Why read and partake in a Forum in that case?

Chill dude,

Steve

Posted on: 31 October 2001 by Goose

I think it's quite intersting to hear opinions of 'famous'/ 'knowledgeable' /people in the music industry, on music , cd and vinyl. Perhaps its not just us who debate and listen to the different formats.

Perhaps John Peel couldn't be bothered to get into a debate, as he's a chilled guy, good he still acknowledges the presence of vinyl these days.

Anyone know of any celebraties and what systems they have ( regardless of whether they like their music ( or their system!) )

1) Slash has /had a active DBL system
2) Richard Ashcroft ( rumour ) has Well Tempered 'The Record Player'
3) Eric Clapton had/has a Denon mini system!

Cheers
Goose

Posted on: 31 October 2001 by Stephen Bennett

Most musicians I know, some quite well known, have the worst hi-fi imaginable. There are quite a few with decent systems though. I can understand why if you're 'struggling' - there's always a demand from other quarters for instruments/studio equipment and so on. I once sold a Linn/Nait/Kan system to buy a Hammond C3. But I replaced it with a Rega/NAD/Summat - I had to have a reasonably decent system. But as for the 'better off ones'? Dunno.

Some musician friends think my system sounds great but they'd rather spend the money on CDs/girls/drugs/paternity charges (delete where applicable)

Stephen

Posted on: 31 October 2001 by Tony L

quote:
Anyone know of any celebraties and what systems they have ( regardless of whether they like their music ( or their system!) )

According to a magazine article I read at one point that the jazz bassist Charlie Hayden has a LP12 / 82 / 180 / SBL system, and a extreme tinitus kind of hearing disorder so plays it very quietly.

Kate Bush apparently has a full Naim rig ending in SBLs and on Mana, this was reported on the Mana forum ages ago.

I heard from a London dealer that one of the Oasis lot has a DBL system.

I remember hearing years ago that John Peel had Isobariks, though I don't know what he had upstream.

Tony.

Posted on: 31 October 2001 by Jez Quigley

Who was editor of Hi-Fi Answers in its glory days, last I heard still runs an LP12/135's into briks, I'm not sure what cdp or pre he has though.

Posted on: 02 November 2001 by Hammerhead

But is it a good thing for Linn? Seems odd to publicly diss your own 12K CD player against your own 3-4k record player..

Posted on: 02 November 2001 by MarkEJ

quote:
Originally posted by Stephen Bennett:
I once sold a Linn/Nait/Kan system to buy a Hammond C3.

Now you're talking. Always wanted one of those, or better still, an A100 (smaller cabinet). Stick the C3 on the X/19's roof, put your Leslie 122 in the "boot", and you're away into the sunset...

Shouldn't be hard to spot, anyway!

Best;

Mark

(an imperfect
forum environment is
better than none)

Posted on: 02 November 2001 by Stephen Bennett

..I do like the A too. At the moment I'm using a Voce module as It can't get a Hammond into the studio. But - one day...

the Voce is very good through a Leslie I have to say!

Stephen

Posted on: 02 November 2001 by NigelP

I believe the Paul Merton has a B&W speaker system around Nautilus 801 and 802. Don't know what his sources are.

Posted on: 02 November 2001 by Andrew Randle

This was a subject I was contemplating to write a few months ago. I was interest to know if the guys at Naim (such as Doug and Paul D) have had any contact with celebrities through their work... a simple "yes" or "no" would surfice as I appreciate that a customer-base should be kept anonymous (unless permission is given).

I've heard that Noel Gallagher has an LP12... so he may be the one with the DBLs.

Andrew

Andrew Randle
2B || !2B;
4 ^ = ?;

Posted on: 02 November 2001 by Martin C

Tony,

One of the staff in my dealer knows Kate Bush, he told me that she has a top flight naim gears, CDSII/52/Super/DBL (not sure whether it's active/passive - could be 6-pack), maybe she upgraded by then.

Peter Gabriel also uses top flight naim gears, as well as Mr Michael Caine!!!!!

Interesting!

Cheers
Martin

Posted on: 02 November 2001 by David Dever

quote:
Now you're talking. Always wanted one of those, or better still, an A100 (smaller cabinet). Stick the C3 on the X/19's roof, put your Leslie 122 in the "boot", and you're away into the sunset... shouldn't be hard to spot, anyway!

I owned a (self-) cut-down BCV twice my age until about three years ago--too expensive to store at a practice space--but still own a 122RV Leslie cabinet.

The BCV had a "mechanical" chorus unit, rather than the typical bucket-brigade electronic variant--in other words, twice the tonewheels! (Also owned an L-101, but that's another story...)

Dave Dever, NANA

P.S. For college radio programmers in the 1980s, John Peel was a god.

Posted on: 03 November 2001 by Chris Dolan

I vaguely recall a magazine atricle on Kate Bush in the mid-80s when she had (I think) an LP12 Naim amps and Linn Saras.

I use both formats but generally prefer vinyl - but if all cds sounded as good as Naim ones it would be closer.

Chris

Posted on: 05 November 2001 by Stephen Bennett

I too, used to have a L100 series. Very dissapointing until I got a really dirty sounding Leslie 122. I'm hoping to have space soon for another Hammond - and a Rhodes. I used to cart around a Hammond, Leslie, Rhodes, Minimoog and a polysynth. I rehearsed last week with a JV1080 & the Voce organ module/korg leslie. I would say 99% of the audience won't be able to tell the difference. And it has some nice mellotron sounds too - I never dared to take one of those out on the road!

And it all fits inside my X1/9

Nice

stephen