RonM;610336 Wrote: > 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
+1 million. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - INGUZ DRC - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85590 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
