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Originally Posted by Radio Wrangler
Opinions vary, but everyone agrees that anything digital in place of moving coil would be completely unacceptable.
David
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Absolutely true. Moving coil meters improve sound quality but LED meters ruin it. Why else do you think cassette decks died out? Oh yes, the powers-that-be will prattle on about hiss, cassette fragility and the arrival of CD, but the fact is that it was the change from moving coil VU meters to digital ones - this ruined the sweet and mellifluous sound of the format and people stopped buying it.
As an aside, this is also why the older 1970s B&O Beocord 2400 cassette deck is so much better than its Beocord 1900 stablemate. Yes, there are tiny insignificant factors like the 2400 being more highly specified and having different circuitry in, but the actual reason for its superiority is simple. The 1900's big, beautiful moving coil meters only work on record - the 2400's work on record and playback.