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The nexus between Social Security disability hearings and music-related ephemera is small, but it is there.

I looked up information on Henry Koltys, an Administrative Law Judge out of Santa Barbara, and I found this article pertaining to Jerry Garcia's toilet.

Thief Gets Away with Grateful Dead Leader's Toilet

The long, strange trip continues for Jerry Garcia's toilet.Police say the Grateful Dead leader's commode was stolen recently from a driveway along with three other toilets and a bidet.
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Unsomnambulist said:
What is the point of vinyl if the recording was made digitally?
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That's an interesting philosophical question. One could also ask the converse: "what's the point of digital if the recording was made analog?" The answer lies in how much importance you attribute to the medium apart from the recording.

Younger people have rediscovered the joy of pulling a 12" disc out of a colorful jacket and putting it on a turntable. Who am I (or Billie Eilish) to deny them that pleasure?

On the flip side, some dear friends recently gave me the latest digital vinyl remaster of Revolver. I'm in the midst of rediscovering The Beatles' U.S. Capitol catalog on vinyl, so I was really looking forward to this one. However, I found that the sound, while "improved", changed the impact of the album for me. I didn't mind that when the CD version first came out in 1987. In fact, it was a revelation finally to hear all of the nuances. But my ears still expect vinyl to sound analog.

Unsom will rightfully point out that I play my turntable through my computer, so it's not really analog. Fair point, so perhaps part of my reaction is emotional rather than rational. That may be, but I still appreciate the sonic "artifacts" (some might call them defects :worm:) inherent not only in the vinyl itself but also in the obsolete styles of mixing and mastering back in the day. I don't mind John and Paul in one channel and George and Ringo in another because that's the way I remember them. It would be like "helping" Monet by photoshopping in some "purer" colors.

So my bright new copy of Revolver (Capitol 0602445599691) went off to Amoeba and I will buy as nice a used copy of ST 2576 as I can find. And don't get me started on how much better even the catalog numbers were back then. :rolleyes:

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Unsomnambulist said:
It could be argued that converting analog to digital serves the purpose of preserving the recording for posterity, but you wouldn't know anything about that, I guess.
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I have a handful (yes, less than five) Blue Note albums that were converted from analog-to-digital. When I listen to them on my home audio, I can rightfully imagine that I am hearing the original vinyl.

It just sounds (like) analog.

Convince me otherwise. Anyone can play.
 
axolotl said:
I have a handful (yes, less than five) Blue Note albums that were converted from analog-to-digital. When I listen to them on my home audio, I can rightfully imagine that I am hearing the original vinyl.

It just sounds (like) analog.

Convince me otherwise. Anyone can play.
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Some of my best sounding albums I have in FLAC were originally recorded to analog tape.
 
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