I was reading a post somewhere (not on these forums) from someone who had been ripping his old vinyl to digital. He was very gratified that the "wonderful warm sound of vinyl" was still present in the digital rips. Sigh. He completely failed to understand that this meant the "wonderful warm sound" was an ARTIFACT introduced by the vinyl reproduction, in fact a distortion of the original music. If that sound could be captured digitally in his rips, there would be no barrier to capturing it directly to CD.
A music producer acquaintance once noted to me that the qualities many people believe inherent in vinyl can be reproduced by adding various effects to the digital versions of the music. It may well be that in some abstruse fashion "analog" can have advantages over "digital", but I tend to think that most of the claims simply flow from habituation to the sonic side-effects of analog reproduction. Ron -- RonM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RonM's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17029 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85590 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
