"My belief is that there is too much (information - to be recorded) there for current digital parameters to capture as well as analog can."
I did say analog, not "vinyl" here as some of you started talking about digitally ripping copies of your records. I wasn't talking about that. I was referring to whether digital recordings can capture the information of a live event as well as analog recordings can. I know that most all recordings that end up on vinyl now were made digitally at the time the recording was made. I have not referred to any of those. I don't have any vinyl records of anything recorded after early-70's except for Jazz at the Pawnshop, Police and R.E.M. - Good point... do you have both the CD and LP of Jazz at the Pawnsho[? Compare them. GREAT RECORDING. Both sound great but many people think that the vinyl has more of the live feel of the location than the CD. Why ? I don't know. The CD is great but vinyl records sound more real to me many times. R.E.M. comes to mind. Their records sound better than their CDs to me. Maybe the guy that mastered the CDs was not so great, don't know... To clarify my analog vs digital assertion: I think a big studio tape would sound better than a top-of-the-line digital recording of the very same piece, in other words. I have not had the opportunity to hear either. I have only heard vinyl and CD. My aforementioned Engineer buddy has done a lot of studio recording and setting up studios with his speakers, amps and various other shite he makes (well). He emphatically says that the best digital recordings do not sound as good as the same event recorded on analog. Just an anecdote. Nothing more. Ultimately, it comes down to what you like as someone else said here. Speakers are wildly inaccurate compared to any artifacts we are talking about adding by a stylus or other vinyl playback equipment. We are already listening to frequency response inaccuracies. Our rooms add a lot more coloration after that.... I was only trying to make a few points: 1. to me, most vinyl records sound more "there" than the CD of the same event. I don't know if there is any way to prove that records have more or less information to be gotten from the groove than a CD has in bits. 2. MP3s are not the same as a CD when you listen to familiar, complex material over a system that you know the material on... (your music, your system). -- brjoon1021 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ brjoon1021's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12136 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
