earwaxer9;585730 Wrote: > ... Vinyl is superior to digital in some areas due to the non step like > nature of analog vs. digital... I trust you realise this is simply not true?
Information Theory explains the maths. The fact that a good needle-drop is possible proves it. Nothing essential is lost. Almost all vinyl pressed in the last 20 years will have come via a digital master source. At the end of the day, there is no truly "analogue" signal in our universe. Everything is quantised... (* This is my 56kbps moment :-) Some people just like the sound of vinyl. It is not in any absolute way superior. Nowadays it is a subtle FX treatment - an extension of the remastering. For example, even the best cutting heads can't physically cut onto vinyl the sort of low frequency energy you can capture digitally. Unfortunately, this indirectly lead to the "loudness wars"... The real problem here is that early (1984-199x) CONSUMER digital was not well implemented and recording engineers did not get to grips with the best techniques until later too. Understanding of jitter, dither etc also evolved. In the meantime, vinyl held its own. It did sound nicer. Many people still prefer it - despite the quantized provenance of what they are listening to! But this was nothing to do with any inherent flaws in the principles of sampling/quantization etc - it was ALL about the quality of implementation. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82870 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
