In Reply to: huh? posted by Analog Scott on March 11, 2017 at 22:12:31:
The proof of the pudding is that experiments were done (quite early in the digital age actually) which showed that when CD-quality digital recordings were made of LP tracks, listeners could not tell the difference between the actual LP playback and the digital copy.OTOH, if you make an analogue copy of a digital source, it's often quite possible to tell which recording is the copy.
I think that if learsfool is hearing all these subtleties via vinyl that he's missing on digital playback, he must have something wrong with his digital set-up.
Edits: 03/11/17
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Follow Ups
- Excellent response, Scott - Chris from Lafayette 22:27:26 03/11/17 (9)
- I think the digital v. analog( vinyl) issue is actually a kind of complex one - Analog Scott 22:48:11 03/11/17 (8)
- "All recordings have their own individual sonic issues and virtues." - rbolaw 08:08:23 03/12/17 (6)
- RE: "All recordings have their own individual sonic issues and virtues." - learsfool 22:31:20 03/14/17 (1)
- RE: "All recordings have their own individual sonic issues and virtues." - Analog Scott 09:55:38 03/16/17 (0)
- oh and about "smeantics" - Analog Scott 23:38:35 03/13/17 (0)
- RE: "All recordings have their own individual sonic issues and virtues." - Analog Scott 22:11:17 03/13/17 (2)
- "...every bit of the audible signal." Good one, Scott! - rbolaw 19:03:14 03/16/17 (1)
- "perfectly reproducing a recording is not the same as perfectly capturing a live music performance" - Analog Scott 10:50:22 03/17/17 (0)
- Yup, pretty much agree with all that [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 23:34:12 03/11/17 (0)