Have you ever heard really good, say direct to disc, recordings on LP on a $10K and up turntable? If you havent, then your contention is moot. If you have, and still think best CD sounds justs as good/realistic as best LP, then either your ears are shot/well below average or the playback system is suspect not worthy of the task.
CD at its best is not awful terrible no, but its certainly not a transparent or refined as LP at its finest. This isnt a personal opinion or based on my or your ears, it's the consensus opinion of most music lovers/audiophiles. If CD format was good enough, than higher resolution digital formats would not have needed/been developed but they were because CD format digital was not audibly good enough to get the job done then or now or ever compared to LP or even the later higher rez digital audio formats. -- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) Join the CD PLAYER & DISC Discussions : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdsound/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph McAllister Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:19 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Vinyl vs. Digital On Nov 13, 2009, at 16:42 , J.C. O'Connell wrote: > as good as a $2500 or even $10,000 digital rig sounds, > it doesn't sound nearly as nice a $2500 LP rig. Dollar > for dollar LP sounds better from about $250 and up and > at some point lP just pulls away forver from what even > the worlds finest CD rigs can do at any cost. A. Read what you are responding to - for comprehension. B. Listening to music is a personal thing - my ears are not your ears. C. Ears. A flapping diaphragm that conducts air pressure changes to the brain through a series of cartilaginous bone, that the brain interprets as sound (music) based on a lifelong learning curve. Ca. I'm older than you are, therefor I hear sound better than you do. (True? BS?) D. Arguments with absolutes are not arguments, they are foolishness. There is a disconnect between measurements found in a Audiophile' magazine and the empirical hearing of the individual. E. Try recording the sound of the waves hitting the shore, the birds, and the wind. The recording may be absolutely accurate (tho usually without the feeling of the space around one) but it is without the emotion each individual would feel sitting at that spot. F. Most of this is crap put down while watching Law & Order, Bones, and Numb3rs. I do not care for a response. It's just my thoughts on recorded sound and JC's arguments and the validity or lack thereof of his or any other theory. Joseph McAllister [email protected] "If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug a camera." -Lewis Hine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
