actually, the machines producing your favorite sounds are producing AT LEAST, and DONT ARGUE 24bit sound, sometimes even at 48000 or higher khz. when this is mixed down professionally and PRESSED (NOT BURNED, DIGITALLY) to vinyl, that sound is kept, because of it's format. speakers are analog, and they must put out analog sound. therefor, when your CD plays, the data is converted by the speaker so it can play. when you burn higher quality music to a cd, the quality is automatically dithered to 16bit, sometimes with adverse effects. the vinyl produces a sound for the speakers, that digital can only emulate, and can for the most part only reach 16bit quality. say you like the quality of the cleanest CD you've ever heard, now imagine TWICE that quality! kinda hard.. huh maybe that's why people tend to go crazy to the vinyl ----- Original Message ----- From: "--autopilot--" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 5:58 AM Subject: Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are.
> >I think alot of the quality of the audio goes out the window after digital > >quantizantion. > > Something I don't understand here - so much music is made with samplers and > other digital devices, so presumably the sound coming out is quantised to > 16-bit/44.1KHz by definition anyway - how can writing that quantised sound > onto vinyl suddenly give it a better dynamic range / quality ? > > I suspect there's a bit of retro-fetishism going on here (not that there's > anything wrong with that - just that vinyl rules for reasons other than > sound quality). > > Debates r.e. the quality of mp3 files are mainly irrelevant at present since > the primary point of mp3 files is swapping, i.e. you take what you can get > in terms of bitrate. Sure, higher bitrates sound better, but most extant > files are lower bitrate. Since it's a lossy compression system there will > always be a difference, and the louder the P.A. the more audible that > difference will be. Personally I'm not ready to make the switch yet, though > I do play with WAVs off a puter. > > :-) (-: > Ash > --autopilot-- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.autopilot.co.uk > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
