But consider this...

Miles Davis' produced a sound - an analog sound. That sound traveled a not so smooth journey through a bunch of wires to an analog tape recorder. After transfer to vinyl or other medium (consumer reel-2-reel is the best analog medium so far produced), it goes through my stereo system's many wires to my speakers, recreating that waveform that Miles blew 40 years ago.

Now, in between all that, they want to stick some digital thingamajiggie instead of vinyl or reel tape. I'm sorry, but I just don't see how passing a perfectly good analog signal through a brick wall low-pass filter, with it's inherent colourations, then turning it into a very limited number of bits thus losing vast amounts of data, sending it through far more wires than I originally had only to come out the other end as a less-than-pleasing sound makes the slightest bit of sense.

I also notice that you, like a lot of other digital adherents, approach the arguements from an entirely theoretical point of view. Not once have I heard you say with any real conviction that the sound of vinyl is at all unpleasant to your ears, or that you find digital so overwhelmingly more satisfying that you can't possibly imagine anyone listening to analog ever again. You've simply stated cold hard facts. Sorry, but the music I listen to isn't cold or hard. And it ain't digital.

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Topic - wonderful sound of vinyl - red carerra 12:54:57 06/07/04 (24)

Re: wonderful sound of vinyl - Retsel 13:13:32 06/10/04 (0)

Re: wonderful sound of vinyl - Todd Krieger 09:52:24 06/08/04 (0)

Digital is only a good representation of analog sound - jnhvac 22:15:37 06/07/04 (3)

LP is an even worse representation of the analog master tape - jeromelang 23:35:16 06/07/04 (2)

Sorry, just a couple of other thoughts... - ElbowGeek 06:40:38 06/08/04 (0)

But consider this... - ElbowGeek 06:31:09 06/08/04 (0)

SCAD vs vinyl - Daveslater 21:46:18 06/07/04 (2)

this is the general consensus - tunenut 09:35:43 06/08/04 (0)

Totally agree... - JCS 02:29:44 06/08/04 (0)

Re: wonderful sound of vinyl - gregg@levethan.com 19:05:48 06/07/04 (0)

Re: wonderful sound of vinyl - DaveV 17:17:53 06/07/04 (11)

Re: wonderful sound of vinyl - red carerra 18:12:34 06/07/04 (0)

The problem is not digital recording - jeromelang 18:12:06 06/07/04 (9)

Re: The problem is not digital recording - DaveV 20:32:17 06/07/04 (8)

Digital done right will be better than LP playback - jeromelang 22:07:30 06/07/04 (7)

Not in my system.. - JCS 02:40:07 06/08/04 (6)

You mean you can hear the effect of 12-sec repeat on your SCD-1 - jeromelang 17:55:47 06/08/04 (5)

Yes.. - JCS 18:17:59 06/08/04 (4)

OK, let's get the facts correct first - you admit that the 12-sec repeat procedure is audible in your system? - jeromelang 00:58:42 06/09/04 (3)

Re: OK, let's get the facts correct first - you admit that the 12-sec repeat procedure is audible in your system? - JCS 02:17:03 06/09/04 (2)

Can't make a blind man experience colours - jeromelang 03:37:23 06/09/04 (1)

Re: Can't make a blind man experience colours - JCS 08:39:06 06/09/04 (0)

Re: wonderful sound of vinyl - bublitchki 13:34:44 06/07/04 (0)

Because -- - kavakidd 13:30:25 06/07/04 (0)

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But consider this... - ElbowGeek 06:31:09 06/08/04 (0)

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