I've actually seen that turntable in a couple cars! I don't think the LP is the perfect medium for music, but is about as good as we can get these days. A good reel to reel is it for me. No Dolby or DBX, but just pure music. Even a good tape cassette is better than any CD, unless you like compressed music with virtually no depth or timing.
A Nakamichi or Awia tape deck (good ones) will make a CD sound like a Fisher Price toy, and that's with cheap tape. Then you move over to a Technics reel to reel, and the whole ball game changes again. Not much to be gained unless your doing live music, but both systems are better. I have a stack of tapes that were gave to me by a sound engineer (nameless). All were taken right off the mics, and there ain't no CD in that class period!
Nice thing about CD's is that you don't need good speakers with a lot of range. The CD has nothing below 40Hz and is cut off at 16KHz. Ah but I got an SACD player! I do to, and it struggles to get below 30Hz, and is cut off at 20KHz (I think it's actually less). Still sounds better that that silver pie plate. But my CD is clean and quiet, so is 90% of my LP's! But my LP's will often go beyond Klause's speakers (not much, but some deeper bass). Not sure about the upper end, but know the LP will max out most any tweeter. Most won't know it unless they're listening to Frank Glover's "Politico." (By the way Klause's big speakers do that clarinet quite well). Now a CD or SACD will at least do an acoustic jazz trio or even a solo fairly well if the members are standing close together (bumping elbows). But we get into a quintet or a septet, and the world changes right in front of you. The width of the sound stage suddenly compresses, and the upright bass and drums seem like they are up front. All wrong, and instrument placement is extremely critical for listening (learned that from J.J. Johnson at the Chatterbox). Just moving three or four feet makes a world of difference.
Now the good thing about CD's (at my house anyway) is that when I get drunk. I can simply throw in another Miles Davis disc without ever worrying about scratching it. Suppose the samething would be true for folks in Colorado doing a nickel bag of weed. But alas the cassette also does that quite well.
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