On 07/03/2014 12:50 PM, michael norman wrote:
I don't know anything about the fact that cd is superior to vinyl, and I suspect I know more about the process than you do. What do you mean by reproduction accuracy ? When it comes to frequency response dynamic range and noise level analogue is in fact better than cd and that is fact.
There's something called "transfer function". It compares what goes in with what goes out. If there's any difference, other than level, it's distortion. So, a perfect amp would exactly replicate the input, with no distortion. And yes, I do know a fair bit about the process. I studied Electrical Engineering and have over 40 years experience in the telecommunications industry, where digital audio has been in use for almost 50 years. The description of the process was covered in courses I took at work and elsewhere.
Those of us who prefer vinyl are interested in music, I have no idea what you mean by audio accuracy.
See above.
I can and do compare the same music on vinyl and cd I know which sounds better to me.
CD as introduced was and is a crippled format with a limited sample bitrate, if you doubt what I say please explain why mastering engineers working in digital use a much higher quality. And why there is now a market (albeit small) for high quality music downloads from say here http://www.hdtracks.com/ if cd is so perfect ?
How did you get that idea? A CD can reproduce up to 22 KHz, but vinyl is limited, by mechanical factors, to significantly less. The dynamic range of vinyl is limited by the maximum level, which is determined by mechanical factors divided by the noise floor. In the best vinyl, that's about 70 dB or so. The dynamic range of a CD is 96 dB, always, though the recording or playback process may diminish that.
Neil Young and Jack White are on my side too.
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