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In Reply to: wonderful sound of vinyl posted by red carerra on June 07, 2004 at 12:54:57:
The key here is representation. It is not true analog sound, only trying to represent analog sound.
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What went on during mastering stage isn't exactly a secret nowadays.
First is that, simply because *theoretically* vinyl is a "worse" representation of the original signal, doesn't mean that it is less pleasant to listen to.The second is that whilse the original analog tapes of 40-year-old historic recording sessions may deteriorate with age, the vinyl will *not* flake or become unstable. In fact it will outlive us all by many many years *and* will have the benefit of having working playback equipment to use for future generations to enjoy. Just keep in mind that there is a vast amount of data that NASA is having trouble accessing because the computer equipment used to store it is no longer around.
Cheers
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.
Cheers
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