dcat
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Moonlapse said:Dunno. I don't have any issues with digital audio. The maximum rate we can record at these days is 24 bit/192khz. That basically gives you 96,000Hz of the frequency spectrum (we only hear roughly from 20hz to 20khz and that's at the PEAK of our hearing ability) and 144dB of dynamic range. The noise floor on all systems sets in way before then, so it's just superfluous, but it's nice to know that it's there!
Most speakers can't recreate that level of audio fidelity, so it leaves you wondering, if vinyl is truly a purer form of sound storage, who cares?
Sorry, but I am a bit of an audio purist, I have heard the most amazing sounds from the old technology, digital audio in comparison sounded gross, although it is now alot better but still old beats new...
Compared measured specifications doesn't support this but it's a fact, something happens whether it is our mental processing or something I dunno.
It is like television and flourescent lighting flicker rate's we have this thing called "Persistance of Vision" that compensates... watch a TV, crt type and cough, you will see the picture scanning lines for an instant, try it
Audio reproduction and especially Vinyl reproduction is a black art, I can enter a room and listen to a Vinyl record being played, the moment the stylus lands on the run in groove with the volume turned up, I can tell if it's going to sound good or bad even b 4 the music starts...
This has been garnered from years of setting up very high quality Turntable front ends, without a well sorted Vinyl "Front End" CD sounds better and no matter how good or big your speakers are the sound has already been compromised.
But listening to a well set up Vinyl front end as it snaps into place, something amazing happens, ambience dynamic range ect... tis a revelation and highly addictive, but in time it slips out of tune so maintainance is essential.
This IS my reason for being here but digital audio has made in roads and ppl are happy with second best so the slide downwards continue's with just a happy bunch of audio nuts carrying it on...
Please join us... keep it alive and when there is a medium that is better well that would be great, but sad cos there is some great old kit out there and billions of great Vinyl records with magic in them there groove's.