On 07/03/2014 12:21 PM, michael norman wrote:
My knowledge of the laws of physics is about nil.
That says it all. You're making claims without any understanding of how things work.
I didn't say there was no friction between a stylus and a record groove. What I'm thinking about is how detrimental that is to the record and how long it might be before it becomes audible. I do not accept that it's a big problem for vinyl replay. I've played lots of records for many years and never worn any of them audibly. Microscopes would no doubt show the degradation between plays of any given record, but so what ?
Every time you play a record, you are causing some wear. That is absolute fact. By appropriate choice of equipment, you can minimize that wear, but you can never eliminate it.
Trying to reproduce music by means of audio equipment is pretty much looking for some sort of Holy Grail and by definition unachievable. So you use the tools available, in my case I get the best results from vinyl. I am not anti digital per se I just don't find it as musically satisfying as vinyl.
From a reproduction accuracy point of view, CDs are much better than vinyl, but then I doubt you'd know enough about the process to understand that. When it comes to frequency response, dynamic range and noise level, CDs are vastly superior to vinyl and that is fact. There are many who prefer vinyl, but that's because they prefer the distortions it causes to audio accuracy.
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