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RE: i wonder....

"With regard to the digital recordings that I made from your turntable"

What turntable might you be referring to? Have you had access to a non-belt drive Teres?

"If you want audibly perfect speed stability, you need to go digital from beginning to end."

What about digital jitter? Jitter is a well documented problem that degrades the sound of digital recordings. It is a distortion in the time domain and remarkably small amounts of jitter are easily heard.

Analog is no different. Small errors in the time domain are easily heard. Wow & flutter measurements are coarse errors that are low in frequency and generally do not correlate well sound quality. It's like harmonic distortion. Easy to measure but not useful. Very small time distortions similar to digital jitter exist in analog and have the same sort of effect on sound. Many do not recognize it as such.

All sound recording techniques share the challenge of accurate reconstruction in the time domain. It's naive to say that digital is somehow immune.




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