Pneumonic;614676 Wrote: > And herein lies the issue that many people have with vinyl, and indeed > analog, in general ..... the medium itself inherently adds copious > amounts of noise/hiss and distortions which drown out the signal being > reproduced, burying much of the music under said noise/hiss and > distortions in the process. Once this information is smothered in hiss > it truly is gone forever. > > For anyone who aspires to build a playback system that accurately > reproduces what the recording has to offer, including revealing all the > little details and nuances originally available, this is unacceptable.
Your willingness to exaggerate analog's flaws in order to trumpet the virtues of digital are boundless. While it is true that badly recorded analog can have all the things you mentioned, a well recorded analog master tape is the equal of a well recorded digital master as far as sound is concerned. Digital is far superior to analog as a storage and editing medium but those qualities have little to do with the either mediums ability to capture "sound". In addition, a fourth generation copy of cassette tape is sonically no worse than a fourth generation lossly file (by fourth generation I mean something like CD->mp3->CD->wma->CD->m4a(Apple)->CD->mp3 and don't think that doesn't happen and quite often to boot). Sure the cassette (analog) copy will have lots of hiss and sound terrible but the fourth generation mp3 file will have equal amounts of distortion that many people will simply refuse to hear because the file is digital and therefore "perfect". Perfect my ass. So please do us a favor and cut out the hyperbole so that this discussion can remain meaningful and useful. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 (oops) -> Touch 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85590 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
