if you recorded at a super high bitrate, it would be pretty dang close. but still, what you would have is a snapshot, translated into 0's and 1's. at the micro scale, all the soft edges in an analog record get turned into jagged edges..the sound is necessarily altered during the analog-to-digital conversion. visualize it as you would a digital picture -- similarly, with a digital recording, when you zoom in far enough you can see that it is made of countless identically sized "pixels". with an analog recording, there is no neat configuration of individual "pixels"....what you would see would be fuzzy, or round, and would contain a myriad of both regular and irrregular shapes.
@robin yes yes of course, that's your preference. trust me, your resignation to the disappearance of vinyl from your life does not represent the world. i sell 78's for a living, which were essentially completely discontinued 50 years ago (except in africa, where they were pressed well into the 80's). it's a small but very established market. the vinyl market is exponentially larger. just because you and your friends are getting old and losing interest, don't be mistaken...there are people who will be voracious record collectors probably for centuries to come, regardless of whether it is still being manufactured or not. ps i can tell the difference between a laptop and a record in a club (that i'm familiar with) without much effort if i bother to try to...i rarely bother. if i'm in an unfamilar spot, well shoot, who knows, maybe i couldn't say for sure whether it was an mp3 or a live band hidden from sight.. On Jan 4, 2008 8:43 AM, Odeluga, Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps playing a silent record is going to far :) ... but it's a fair > point. > > Still, if your file's digitized from vinyl you would get all the > benefits of the medium in the audio quality too, I guess?
