Digital and vinyl both have the potential to sound very good.
I prefer to bitch about the degradation of the media after the initial recording process. Post production and compression takes incredible amounts of fidelity and dynamic range away from the initial recording.
The mediocrity of modern click track recording takes the spontaneity and musicianship out of most recording. After all the degradation the original recording takes fencing about the analog or digital mastering of a recording originally recorded in analog is lost in the subjectivity of personal taste.
Try this: listen to any CD, rip. or digital download of Weather Reports "Birdland" then listen to the Bernie Grundman mastered 45 RPM LP.
Compared to digital, quality phono playback can suffer greatly from the quality of the components in the playback chain. In the example above one should be able to hear the superior mastering with a modest phono chain.
It's not about digital or vinyl its about how its produced. Both can be very good.
I prefer to bitch about the degradation of the media after the initial recording process. Post production and compression takes incredible amounts of fidelity and dynamic range away from the initial recording.
The mediocrity of modern click track recording takes the spontaneity and musicianship out of most recording. After all the degradation the original recording takes fencing about the analog or digital mastering of a recording originally recorded in analog is lost in the subjectivity of personal taste.
Try this: listen to any CD, rip. or digital download of Weather Reports "Birdland" then listen to the Bernie Grundman mastered 45 RPM LP.
Compared to digital, quality phono playback can suffer greatly from the quality of the components in the playback chain. In the example above one should be able to hear the superior mastering with a modest phono chain.
It's not about digital or vinyl its about how its produced. Both can be very good.