The character of analog and digital

Hi @brianaus, It seems that you are full of generalizations today, and while generalizations may have truth in them, they’re usually not very useful.

You like vinyl. Great. I have no problem with people who prefer vinyl or listen to vinyl exclusively. I just don’t understand people who think that everyone should like the same things they like, though.

There are many albums recorded digitally that sound great. If you like any music recorded after about 1980, it has probably been digitized at some point.

You like Japanese receivers and British speakers. That’s great, but it’s not the only route to good sound. People have different hearing and different tastes, many people may prefer a different sound, believe it or not.

I’m American and have never heard Australians described as "Americans in training." Americans generally have a very good opinion of Aussies and see them as different from us and certainly not trying to be like us.

We are saddened to see the Australian government getting a little power hungry and recently treating our Australian friends badly, though.

Although this is a mostly American website, we enjoy hearing from people from other parts of the world. Unfortunately, opinions on an American website are going to be "Americo-centric" as you put it. Stick around and contribute in a positive fashion and we’ll be more than happy to hear a different point of view.

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( some unkind people call Australians- " Americans in training")
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@brianaus - that is a cracker of an insult.

A lot of opinions and theorizing when the answer is found in the OP’s original post itself.  No mention of the obvious:

**** First of all it’s very difficult to speak of analog in general. Records vary widely (indeed wildly) in sonic character and quality. Digital recordings are much more uniform. When you play a digital file you more or less know what your getting. Of course some sound better than others, but there is a consistency of character. With records, it’s the Wild West. Variation in SQ and character are rampant. ****

Bingo!  Records vary wildly in sonic character because recordings vary wildly in sonic character.  This is a good thing, not a negative.  The fact that “there is a consistency of character” with digital recordings is a negative, not a positive.

Both technologies have an intrinsic character.  Why wouldn’t they?  However, to my ears and in spite of the excellence that both are capable of, digital imposes more of its character on the music.  

@holmz 

that is a cracker of an insult.

'can oath.

Whoever made that assertion to @brianaus  doesn't know that we share nothing in common except for a dissimilar concept of the English language. 

Americans generally have a very good opinion of Aussies and see them as different from us and certainly not trying to be like us.

This is correct and pleasant and is as it ought to be in western Judeo/Christian culture with shared geo-political alliances.

Then there are times when us Aussies think that Americans are really on another planet and perhaps nobody can quite phrase the feeling as concisely as the Aussie actor Hugh Jackman did here.