Phil Leigh;582024 Wrote: > No there isn't. You prefer the sound of analogue. That's fine. > > For example, many people like to listen to 24/96 vinyl rips on high-end > (?) digital gear because it captures the euphonic distortions of vinyl > replay / the nuances of the record-cutting mix master very accurately. > Nothing wrong with that - it's a taste choice. > > Too many people fall into the trap of believing that all "analogue" is > intrinsically "better" - this despite the fact that what they are > listening to often has "digital" in it somewhere. Bought any vinyl > records recorded, mastered or cut in the last 20 years? > > Well recorded and mastered "digital" can sound better than vinyl. The > converse can also be true. > > Now that recording engineers know how to operate and assess the digital > chain properly (and it only took them 20 years!) there is no longer any > basis to claim that digital always sounds inferior. > > Sure, if you are listening to a 1984 issue CD, incorrectly pressed from > the uncorrected 2nd or 3rd gen backup copy of the vinyl EQ master tape, > played back on some nasty 14-bit CD-player... that will sound rather > bad!
Exactly. As I've explained earlier in this thread, analog sources are loaded with the soft-knee kind of distortion. This kind of distortion (based on the mathematical principle of harmonics) is pleasing to many audiophiles' ears. The digital source is world famous for having noticeably less distortion than the analog, however, that trifle bit of digital distortion sounds very grating. Many people have described digital sound as being 'nervous'. It feels like having a pleasant walk along a beautiful seaside walkway while being annoyed by a pebble in your shoe. You can have a very high resolution, high quality digital sound source and still have this uneasy feeling of nervousness when listening to it, something you don't get when listening to a high quality, high resolution analog source. -- magiccarpetride ------------------------------------------------------------------------ magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82520 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
