I would. These days people have so little experience listening to ANY music on a quality system that it's impossible to say that they would recognize any drawbacks to an OM-10, as well as recognize the superiority of a CD.

Back in the past....caution: artsy-fartsy New Age Stuff

In the early 70s there was a thing called Touch For Health (it still exists). One of the things they would do was a test to point out bad stuff (vibrations). You'd hold your right arm straight out sideways from your body, then bend the elbow so the forearm went forward.

You'd then hold something predicted to have bad vibrations in your left hand. If indeed it DID have bad vibrations, a person could push down on your right hand and your arm could not resist the push -- the arm would go down. If you were holding something with good vibrations, it was near impossible to push down the arm. This method was suggested for testing, say, vegetables in supermarkets. Real New Age Stuff.

When CDs came out and the initial ones sounded all screechy, I wondered if anyone had ever done a TFH test while listening to them. See, I had a girlfriend in college who was quite a wonderful violinist, and more than once I listened to her practicing from close up. VIOLINS MAKE HORRIDLY SCREECHY SOUNDS. My experience of hearing this, from a pro, at about five feet made me wonder if all the initial screechy sounding CDs weren't perhaps the accurate recordings. Nobody ever tested for that with the Touch For Health test.

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There are ways to save the tracks in higher-resolution formats, though. Not with this, but with an outboard DAC. Also, it's possible to remove the clicks & pops with something like Audacity, so that helps with the dynamics.

If I could stand the tedium, I would convert all of my vinyl to digital, so I could listen to that music outside of the house.

I would bet that she was trying to play quietly, which is when the screechy sounds happen most. It's easy to play a violin loudly- the bow is in better contact with the strings but to play quietly, there's less pressure and the bow doesn't move as fast. A good violin is surprisingly loud.

Well I just lost $20

You should have known. Anything is possible...LOL

Well, looks like the article is really down for good. LOL

As I was reading the above with the TV on, a news guy used the phrase "heaping pile."

That's what the article was: a heaping pile.

Sure, that's good. But it's not good enough to just sweep it under the rug and make it go away.

They need to fess up to the mistake(s) and issue an apology.

Then they could print two reviews - one of the turntable and one of the DAC.

It's too bad so many people are getting into vinyl as a way to be trendy. Hipsters suck and when they decide to drop it, that industry is gonna crash hard.

Trade you three Beanie Babies with tags for your copy of Dark Side of the Moon?

Recently had someone say "Most of this audiophile stuff is just plain malarkey designed to rob you of your hard earned money.".

I guess he bought a lot of Monster Cable and is pissed?

Not just that industry. Remember the tech boom of, what, 1990something? It crashed after state governments (my stupid California government, at least) had ratcheted up their budgets and their pensions because all this tax money was going to be coming in forever... and when the tech boom burst, all that was left was commitments to pay hugely increased pensions.

There's a smell of boom in the air and California is once more seeing the wonderful things that government can spend us into.

You funny man.