Phil Leigh;582336 Wrote: > I agree with this, but it appeared that you were also trying to > establish that there is some fundamental flaw in (good) digital. All I > can say is that analogue has different flaws. They are still flaws. All > reproduction methods are flawed. > > You happen to prefer one set of flaws, me another. That's fine, but you > can't claim that analogue is inherently superior to good digital. > I've owned and heard plenty of both and made my decision. It wasn't > based purely on convenience!. Convenience was the icing on the cake > (for me).
Agreed. And that's precisely what I wrote early on in this thread. If you'd recall, I said that you can't have audio reproduction without introducing flaws into the process (i.e. distortion). There simply is no way out of that predicament. What we're debating here is the style of the distortion. It's the same as when discussing the pros and cons of guitar amplification. Some guitar players (myself included) prefer tube amplification, because it gives us the type of distortion that we feel is more pliable. I'm not a keen advocate of the tube amplification because I think it minimizes or eliminates distortion. To the contrary, it has tons of distortion, but in a good way. Solid state amplification is much less prone to distorting the signal, but some guitarists (myself included) find that type of amplification to lack soul. On the music reproduction front, some of us feel that good analog sounds more musical than good digital. It has more 'soul'. Can you measure the amount of soul that is findable in music reproduction? I bet you can't! (some scientifically minded souls on this forum would disagree, I'm sure). -- magiccarpetride ------------------------------------------------------------------------ magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82520 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
