opaqueice;347132 Wrote: > > 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.
Most sound engineers? Almost all would argue that digital is far more convenient, practical and economical, but in regards to sound, I really disagree with your comment, in fact, I think is a fabrication of your "know it all attitude". In recording, vinyl has a cult status, and its seen as superior format of music reproduction. However, very few can achieve superior reproduction of vinyl, since a lot of care and patience is needed for this. Very different from handling cd's, pressing an open button and dropping it in the tray.... Red Book compact discs have this advantage, and when you balance it, the sound of cd's is not that bad. Besides, recording studios have hundreds of thousand, if not, million euros invested in digital equipment. Since the early 80's almost everyone trusted digital blindly. Its a matter of market (capitalism) over format, economy over format, convenience over format, but for shure not music over format. Most consumers? Any regular consumer would buy what sells in your average consumer electronics store. The consumer's will is limited by decisions taken at Sony, Philips or Samsung. In the early 80's the reality was simple: CD's cost much less to manufacture! therefore they are faster to produce, easier to distribute and had the novelty to be able to attract consumers into the "future", plus they sounded OK, for sure better than cassettes, and almost as DAT's, not to mention the manufacturing of the players. For a regular consumer it was simple. Most of them never heard vinyl reproduced in a high quality system; Cd's were marketed fiercely and vinyl vanished, it was just to delicate, difficult and complicated. Researchers in acoustics? There we go again... THIS IS NOT ABOUT PSEUDO SCIENCE OR SCIENCE, MEASURABLE ACCURACIES, AND CONTROLLED LAB EXPERIMENTS, ULTIMATELY, IT IS ABOUT THE REPRODUCTION OF MUSICAL EMOTION, FEELINGS, WONDER, ITS ABOUT MUSIC!!!!!! AND THIS AREA IS WHERE GOOD QUALITY VINYL PLAYBACK IS STILL THE KING AND WHERE AUDIOPHILES KNOW MUCH BETTER THAN YOUR "ACOUSTIC RESEARCHERS." I THERE ANYONE TO LISTEN TO WELL PLAYED VINYL AGAIN OR FOR THE FIRST TIME, YOU WILL BE SPEECHLESS! Opaque, you are part of a crowd of pseudo scientists or a scientists, or a want to be scientists, and these are the ones I trust the less for anything related to art, they are actually the worst! -- GuyDebord Kharma Ceramique 3.2FE's wired with v/d Hul Inspiration. AMPS: Pathos Classic One MKIII's in mono config. ANALOGUE: Clearaudio Ambient CMB, Satisfy Carbon & Lyra Helikon SL, ASR Basis Exclusive phono preamp, link: AcousticZen Silver Reference2 XLRs. DIGITAL: SlimDevices Transporter, link: WireWorld SilverEclipse 5.2. AC: Isotek MiniSub GII, Isotek Elite (MiniSub), ASR Magic Cord (ASR), Siltech SPX30 MKII's (Pathos) & v/d Hul Mainserver (Transporter). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GuyDebord's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14587 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53355
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