digital vs vinyl thoughts

Al, I couldn't agree more. As I've said before, I have yet to hear the consistent superiority of one format over the other.

Unsound, I absolutely agreement with you. Tmsorosk, "mombo jumbo"? where is this animosity coming from? I was stating basic Electrical Engineering. Nothing else. I never said that you or anyone else wouldn't like their digital system's sound. I certainly like mine. But, before you attack me, which I can't understand why you are doing so, please re-read my post. no way on this planet is a digital signal that has been sampled over an analog signal as accurate as an analog signal. That is all I said. So, there will be some inherent data losses in digital taken from analog. Digital to digital sampling has no losses because it goes back and checks each bit with the original digital signal. This can't happen with digital sampled from analog. However, what I did say is that if you up the sampling rate and also up the playback sampling rate to match, you can get close. But never 100%. But, mombo jumbo? Sorry, it definitely isn't. it is called Engineering and the theories behind it, and that is exactly what any electrical system's designer must know before they can design and build anything. This isn't a religious battle between digital vs vinyl. So, stay calm

Learsfool; I like what you wrote.

Thanks,

Thanks Almarg; I wasn't arguing that because digital was sampled it is a more persuasive argument for vinly. Sorry, if I may have giving that impression. I was stating an engineering fact that to sample a signal at a specific sampling frequency absolutely means that some of the signal will simply not be there. Analog means that all of the signal is there. Of course there are distortions and benefits and negatives to vinly. RIAA has it's own issues. It has been cleaned up and sort of perfected over the many years, but.... What I meant was that if one takes a recording session with good acoustics, mikes, etc. and recording it using both digital and analog recording equipment, (decent equipment mind you), the digital recording will inherently be missing some data because it was sampled. But, as mentioned earlier, if the recording session is strickly digital instruments, or highly compressed music, then the digital recording will be fairly accurate and the analog recording will require a DAC just to get it recorded into analog. I appologize if I stepped on toes. Didn't mean to. Just stating Engineering facts.
enjoy anyway.

Agreed Almarg. These are just my thoughts by reading the many posts and I am not an engineer or schooled in either of these formats outside of my home use. I understand digital has the theoretical potential to be better than analog as we know it. Analog might read more of the signal originally by the microphone but after that it is at the mercy of everything downstream. Digital has the potential to actually rebuild the signal to the closest identity. And as some have stated it might be getting pretty close. It might even be there already just some of us have experienced it yet. Just my thoughts but I may be wrong. Tell me.