I tend to agree with the original poster. I think quite often it’s not that things are
more optimized for human listening, but are more easily reproduced by all the electronics and physical interactions involved.
A tweeter capable of producing frequencies well above human hearing will reproduce those frequencies while also trying to reproduce the frequencies that are audible to us. Is this desirable? Wouldnt the tweeter perform more accurately more efficiently if it were only reproducing the frequencies that we can hear? A lot of nasty things can present themselves as high frequencies in digital formats.
Even sending frequencies below the capabilities of your woofer is changing the accuracy and efficiency of the woofer. Why do we have a rumble filter for vinyl.
There is also the fact that the mastering that occurs to make something appropriate for vinyl does but much tighter controls on frequency response, in a sense making the presentation more stable and consistent.
Honestly, tape is the most enjoyable playback medium that I have found. And it seems like there is a lot of information there... I have a feeling eventually we are going to find out that there is more artifacting in digital reproduction than we currently realize, much of it happening at the time of digitization.
more optimized for human listening, but are more easily reproduced by all the electronics and physical interactions involved.
A tweeter capable of producing frequencies well above human hearing will reproduce those frequencies while also trying to reproduce the frequencies that are audible to us. Is this desirable? Wouldnt the tweeter perform more accurately more efficiently if it were only reproducing the frequencies that we can hear? A lot of nasty things can present themselves as high frequencies in digital formats.
Even sending frequencies below the capabilities of your woofer is changing the accuracy and efficiency of the woofer. Why do we have a rumble filter for vinyl.
There is also the fact that the mastering that occurs to make something appropriate for vinyl does but much tighter controls on frequency response, in a sense making the presentation more stable and consistent.
Honestly, tape is the most enjoyable playback medium that I have found. And it seems like there is a lot of information there... I have a feeling eventually we are going to find out that there is more artifacting in digital reproduction than we currently realize, much of it happening at the time of digitization.