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March 2011 Issue 5
VINY
VINY LP
HILE
The digizine for discerning music lovers
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VINY
VINY LP
HILE
Cast of Characters
Publisher,
Editor-in-Chief Rich Teer
Graphical design Jenny Teer
Reviewers and
contributing
writers
Annie St. Jean,
John Adrian Spijkers
Advertising Rich Teer
Website rite-online.net
www.vinylphilemag.com
Got questions or comments?
Please send them to:
rich@vinylphilemag.com
(250) 317-2210
© 2011 by Vinylphile Magazine.
All rights reserved.
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Contents
Features
5
Editorial
7
Dealer Spotlight
In this installment of Dealer Spotlight, we pay a
visit to Seattle’s Deinitive Audio.
By Rich Teer
14
Annie’s Audio Adventures
Annie has the unenviable task of listening to one
of Van den Hul’s state of the art interconnects.
By Annie St. Jean
40
Final Words
40
Advertisers Index
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Equipment Reviews
Record Reviews
15
Simaudio Moon 310LP
Simaudio’s top phono stage impresses us.
By Rich Teer
30
Record Reviews
Our regular look at records old and new, including
some re-issues of popular oldies.
By Vinylphile staff
20
Spin Clean Mk 2
Now cleaning your records needn’t clean you out!
By Rich Teer
25
NAD PP 3i
We check out NAD’s budget phono stage, just for
those starting out on the path to vinyl valhalla.
By Rich Teer
15
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Editorial
I t seems that some things never
copies of records I own for my own use
(e.g., in the car), and that I’ve received
copies of records I didn’t own. Perhaps
I am in the minority here, but my only
reason for the latter was to experiment
with new music. If I liked the album, I
purchased a copy; I like supporting
artists, and like looking at cover art.
change. Back in the 1980s, when I
was growing up in England, the British
Phonographic Industry (BPI) mounted a
campaign to discourage people from
recording the records they’d purchased
onto cassettes (sound familiar?). Many
inner record sleeves featured the logo,
which had the headline “Home Taping
is Killing Music” and the tag line “And
it’s illegal”. Although I am not a lawyer
(nor do I play one
on TV), I think that
copyright laws’
fair use provisions
render the latter
inaccurate. But
it’s the former
assertion that I’d
like to talk about
here.
So, I don’t think that home taping (or
these days, recording) is killing music.
I think what is
killing music is
a combination
of two things:
crappy music
performed by
untalented artists,
and compression.
The irst of these
is arguably a generational taste issue,
so I’ll leave it at that (besides, there are
many example of great modern music).
But the second issue is more serious.
The BPI’s position (and, I assume,
that of the RIAA also) was that people
recording copies of their records
were thieves, depriving artists of their
royalties, and that the reduction in
royalties would deter musicians from
releasing their work commercially. I
don’t mind admitting that I’ve made
There are actually two types of
compression, both of which are killing
music. The irst (dynamic compression)
happens in the recording studio, usually
at the behest of misguided artists or
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