Themis;347114 Wrote: > Well, what I understood from the article, was that they were trying to > evaluate the progress made by digital audio equipment. The comparison > with analogue was pointless, as their reference systems "After the > first moments of listening, people unanimously agreed that it was no > needing to fill-in any score sheet what so ever.". In other words, the > difference was way too high.
So they say, yes. As I said, I'd love to see a blind test between a digitally recorded record and the real thing. I simply don't believe that vinyl sounds better than digital, based on both my own listening experience and the physical limitations of the medium. In fact, I think digital blows vinyl out of the water in every category from sound quality to durability to convenience. The only reason vinyl is still around is nostalgia. Which is fine, if that's what floats your boat - but believing your personal bias has any relevance for anyone else is just plain silly. > 3. DIGITAL technology all these years didn't make much progress and > various algorithms or oversampling or other tricks applied to the > digital design didn't fool the audiophile's brain after all. The 15 > year old Wadia was sonically almost equal to «State of the Art» equally > priced designs of today. This proves my statement in my introductory > notes that red book has hit the roof... Agreed, more or less. Digital is as good as it gets - the limitations in sound reproduction now have nothing to do with the limitations imposed by digital media or playback. They're due to speakers, listening rooms, recording, and the stereo format itself. > I don't agree on ALL of that, but most audiophiles consider most of it > to be true. Me too. What most audiophiles believe is as far from a reliable guide to reality as you can get. I'd trust what most sound engineers believe, or most consumers, or most researchers in acoustics - and that's that digital is far superior to vinyl as a format. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53355
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