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Re: Is Analog really betterthan digital?

Frequency Response better with digital? With traditional redbook cd the upper limit is 22K (Nyquist thereom) and due to all the filtering necessary it is sonically noticeable. That is the reason for the hi-rez formats-sacd and dvd-audio and the attempts at upsampling. If you raise the sampling frequency you can raise the upper frequency limit so that it will not be audible when it it's filtered or may not require filtering. Upsampling adds dither or random noise to raise the bit count and sampling frequency. Some say it sounds great other well...
Some dacs have no oversampling and are filterless, some say that's an improvement.

Now you go back to analog that requires no upper frequency filtering and I feel because of that it's has a more natural presentation. Yeah there are shortcomings but there is nothing like good analog. I certainly don't have the best turntable out there but I can hear what everyone loves about it.

Jim


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