Also analog does not have endless resolution vinyl is equvavilent of 11bit dithered digital or 13bit undithered aproximately.
If one wants to argue the virtues of analog use reel to reel tape as an example ,vinyl has compromises it simply does not sound as the master tapes and the master engineer has to tweak a lot of stuff even to make it work in the cutting process! That's part of the vinyl "sound" but it is a "sound" ( just as mono bass 20dB channel separation in the midrange, >0.5% 2nd order distortion etc ) With modern digital audio with dither the noise is just as random as good old analog noise so it practically equvavilent . Edit: equvavilent with the very best theoretical analog that rarely exist in practice It true that when you digitise vinyl it would not always sound the same but in the best case it does. When you digitise it you usually don't crank up the volume so you miss the acoustic feedback that is a part of the vinyl sound :) so it migth actually sound better . The phono stage used can also influence a lot the modern anti riaa curve has a cutoff in the subsonic range older phono stages migth not have this or you can chose to use subsonic filter separately. The give away if you see your speaker cones wobble in an out , (if I remember correctly many subsonic filters where not particularly well made , I thinks it's better done in modern phono stages ) .the rumble and clicks and pops can actually have more amplitude than the music so you migth need the recording headroom of 16bits or better I would sugest to be carefull with the recording levels so you don't get digital clipping ! That is nasty . Cheers -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101023 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
