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In Reply to: RE: Audio transformers and hi-resoluition digital posted by Paul Joppa on October 20, 2015 at 14:19:10
I attended digital audio training at Bang and Olufsen in the mid-'80s. Not that I remember all that much of it, but one thing I know: resolution isn't frequency response. Resolution is the value of the increments available to reproduce the signal, or in other words, bits per volt. Within this definition, analog processing provides near-infinite resolution. Digital audio doesn't even come close. Regrettably, my hearing no longer allows me to detect differences so easily. My daughter, on the other hand, can readily discern the higher fidelity of an LP vs standard CDs, even when reproduced by my lowly tube-type circuitry. :)
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"analog processing provides near-infinite resolution"
Cassette tapes are also analog, no where near the resolution of CD.
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Digital resolution is strictly limited by the step size, an inverse function of the number of bits. How many bits are there in a 1 volt sine wave from a cassette?EDIT: Just to be clear, there are zero bits creating the 1 volt analog sine wave. The reciprocal of that is infinity. Now, how many bits are there in a CD? Less than infinity? If so, the CD exhibits less resolution than an analog cassette.
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Edits: 10/23/15
This doesn't make sense; a cassette copied 100 (or 1000) times) still has no bits. What will it sound like? Pure crap (my opinion of a "good" factory cassette as well)
Edits: 10/24/15
We weren't talking about sound quality, we were talking about resolution. Resolution is only one aspect of high fidelity reproduction.
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