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In Reply to: The room we are in is the "Vinyl Asylum" and Vinyl is an analog format. posted by Teresa on September 14, 2006 at 12:54:33:
I think you must be misunderstanding something....No one I have ever met has ever claimed digital is perfect, merely that at some level my/your ears are not sufficient to tell a difference with all else being equal.
The thing that bugs me even more than anaphobes is anazealots who seem to be under the impression that all things analog must be perfect. For example one never encounters discussions on this vinyl board about the inherent error that is present in all types of analog controlled tools such as a record cutting machine. Did you ever stop to think that even if you had perfect analog front end and playback setup that the error introduced to vinyl recording by it's record creation machines will never allow a particular recording to meet the quality of that same recording in it's master form or even in it's digitzed forms which might be available. Of course this would be very software dependent but certainly not beyond the realm of possibility.
I mean it's not like there isn't error in analog systems it's just that the error is different.
For example if running a signal through particular electric circuit were to result in completely distorted signal containing only even harmonics it is still going to be listenable to most since the even the distortion conforms to what many in the west might consider a musical result. However, if that distortion are suddenly odd harmonics of the same amplitudes instead then no one likes it.
All I really mean to say here is why limit oneself to one source format when there is much evidence to show that each format can shine under the right conditions. Saying that analog is always better would be a sure sign of the ignorance of the person making that statement, at least in my mind.
Perhaps those that find one format more pleasing than another are really just less annoyed by the type of distortion present in that particular form of playback than with the type of distortion present in the types of systems they don't care for.
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