adamslim;194885 Wrote: > Opaqueice, you have taken a lot of time here to 'prove' that CD is > inherently superior to vinyl, when about ten seconds of listening will > demonstrate quite vividly the opposite. I had a mid-fi turntable setup > (an Elite Rock), which comfortably outperformed all CD players I could > come close to affording. > > It's not subtle, doesn't require DBX but can be difficult to explain > why. I agree that trying to come to some rational explanation is an > interesting discourse, but for god's sake, man, listen to the music!
I'm not trying to prove anything. This argument demonstrates that the theoretical maximum information capacity of vinyl is below that of a CD, but that doesn't say much about any particular example. As cliveb emphasized earlier, differences in mastering are in any case probably the largest effect. I've listened to a fair amount of vinyl, although mostly on 80's era mid-fi equipment, and I've heard a few more up-to-date fancy audiophile setups. To me, it doesn't sound better, although I wouldn't say worse either - just different. I don't like the audible noise, and digital is far more convenient, so that settles it for me. Sadly, DBX is relatively useless here, since the surface noise on an LP always makes it obvious which is which. Still, it might be interesting to record an LP at CD quality, and then attempt to DBX that CD versus the original. This would have to be done pretty carefully, but the results might be interesting - if vinyl really is superior, it would be easily distinguishable and sound better. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34379 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
