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In Reply to: Precentage Thread Below - It's pretty obvious why your guys prefer Analog to Digital posted by Balance on December 4, 2005 at 08:29:26:
A picture says a thousand words ;-)
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but c'mon you have to wonder if there is any merit to what I am saying. How someone say they prefer analog if they dont even give digital a chance. 30-40% compared to less than 10% You can't make an educated decision based on these numbers, you just can't!
Still, I don't think that reasoning explains most LP-listeners' preference for analog over digital.I have more invested in digital gear (not to mention a DAT machine is my most frequently used piece of equipment) but I still prefer the sound offered by records.
In a lot of cases guys bought into digital early on, and continued to progress with their digital setups. One day for some reason, maybe they wanted to convert a record to CD, or whatever, they pulled the turntable out of the closet. That's when they discovered that their old Dual sounded better than their brand new Krell transport and DAC. As time rocked on, the digital stuff found its way to the closet, and the turntable was exponentially upgraded, often to super analog setups. Most of us never bothered to look back as our records collections grew, and we probably never will.Me? I never left vinyl. I tried the digital, but it never set me ablaze with enthusiasm.
What if you never left vinyl but you kept buying digital equipment until one day you discovered that digital sounded better than vinyl. You discovered that digital recordings made with proper dither and played back on low jitter players with outstanding analog electronics sounded better than your best vinyl. Then you came into some money and you decided to upgrade your vinyl front end to the tune of $15,000 and low and behold, digital still sounded better. After that you knew that digital beat vinyl every time and you can't understand why all these vinyl enthusiasts can't hear the same thing you hear. You definitely hear the difference between CDs and LPs, but you prefer CDs every time. Then you get a real good high-resolution digital recorder and copy LP's to digital, and low and behold, the digital copies sound just like vinyl. This pretty much confirms all the distortion measurements you've read about relative to the two formats and you know beyond reasonable doubt that the difference in sound quality between digital and vinyl is totally due to significantly greater distortion produced by the vinyl format.What if it happened like that?
I was setting up a new sub a few weeks back and after the vinyl test I gave it a cd test.I hadn't listened to a cd in over 6 months.I was quite honestly shocked at how inferior the sound was.I thought my draw to vinyl was for the ritual and tweaking.When I looked back I was surprised how long it had been since I played a disc.Also copied a few records to disc and tried the disc on my system...sounded like an early cd.So much for wasting my time with that....I will never listen to a digital copy of a record.
Regards
Larry.
Sound judgement is forced on us by age and experience
The original allure of digital was how quiet it was, combined with the fact that stores were dropping vinyl right and left. Of course, now I know a little bit more about how to get the most from LPs.
it is a hassle to get things right. but it is worth it. cd's brought a false sense of ease but if is really about the music then ... analog/vinyl front end, even with pops, clicks, whatever, even old records that just won't clean up good, or finding out of print stuff ... there is a passion here that is not expressed in the digital domain [pun intended]
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