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Ehdin jo huolestua että tuleeko vinyylipainosta ollenkaan. Tulee, eikä ilmeisesti kovin huono prässi ole:
 
"when Thick as a Brick 1 and 2 are released in their vinyl edition later this year, therell be some people who go out and buy that, and there may even be some who sit and play it. But I think most of them will never put it on a turntable. Theyll simply want to have it, just because its all about having a piece of pristine, shiny plastic thats never been played. And, frankly, a week ago I would have said, Bloody idiots, wasting their money on a bit of black plastic! Total rubbish, sand and vinyl, blah-blah-blah.
 
But in fact I cut the vinyl just last Monday i.e. the 12th of March, 2012 at Abbey Road Studios in London. And I have to say that, 40 years down the line its the best vinyl cut I have ever heard. I ADd it next to the 24-bit master, and I thought, This is unbelievably good! The only thing that ever gave it away was the tiny, little bit of dust or whatever in the grooves. The occasional little click or noise artifact that you would hear that, I guess, just serves to remind you that you really are listening to a vinyl record. But, in terms of dynamics, in terms of low end/ high end frequency response, the transience, the almost complete lack of any distortion, I just couldnt believe it.
 
And its 53 minutes and 40-odd seconds long. Its one of the longest vinyl albums to be cut. And its unbelievably good, and its only about a decibel and a half down on normal operating level. I mean, amazingly good job, actually done on the same old lathes that were used to cut the Beatles records. But, with todays digital technology, and the better understanding of how to do these thingsplus, cutting it on a copper master, rather than into soft lacqueryou can do this job really pretty well these days.
 
I mean, its taken me 40 years to get a vinyl record that I actually thought, Wow, thats pretty good! Laughs Bit of a surprise, but it made me actually rethink the whole scenario of vinyl in this day and age. But whether its enough to send me out to where every specialist suppliers might be able to sell me an up-to-date fantastic quality turntable, Im not sure that it would.
 
I think I still have one, somewhere. I was told that my old Shure V15 cartridges and styluses that Ive had since the '70s, today avid collectors will pay up to five, six thousand dollars for one of those cartridges. Add to that the SME tone arm, and the Techniques turntable and all the rest of it, youve probably got eight to ten thousand dollars of kit just on your turntable alone. Laughs
 
So, yeah, its an expensive habit being an audiophile. Its probably cheaper to seriously get into crack cocainejust as enjoyable and half the cost. Laughs"