The Science of Vinyl/Analog Setups

Absolue Sound.....Perfect Vision.....

yes, I held a strong opinion on the former and a weak on the latter, having banished “ TV “ from the house .....

@celander
Nice follow up on the original thread of "The Science of Cables" A lot of interesting posts here and some good points on both sides of the discussion.

 @elizabeth thanks for posting that wealth of info.

@millercarbon very good points made on harmonics that has a good deal of merit in explaining our attraction to analogue. In addition, we sometimes forget or don't realize that - at the very foundation of true analogue, whether magnetic or mechanical, it is an organic tit for tat recording (copy) of near perfect time, amplitude and substance - a natural re-creation of ex actually what is presented to it. How it is, or was processed from there sometimes becoming a bit dubious.
Digital, on the other hand is, from the beginning, an assignment of numerical bits, processed, re-processed, filtered and processed some more until finally reaching someones idea of perfect.
Don't get me wrong, I do appreciate digital, particularly it's convenience and ease of use and do admit the sound has become convincingly real.

Whether digital or analogue; whether cords, cables, components, speakers or aftermarket tweaks - I do have a problem with questionable, unsubstantiated high dollar claims of grandeur, that's pseudoscience and allure seems to find a home in HEA, but would never fly anyplace else....Jim

When did music become so much about science? Either you like it or you don't. Numbers don't mean much if they don't translate into real human experience.

Didn’t take long now did it?

In analog, unlike digital, magnets or coils are moved relative to and through fields, not numbers.  What's the resolution of a field? At least no worse than the size of the quarks, muons, gluons, higgs, electrons and other particles with spins that comprise it. Certainly higher than any digitized format. More like a continuum. Plus, that field displacement directly translates from magnet or coil to the coil and magnet of the speaker, with only gain stages on the original field. No conversion to numbers and back. Nothing lost in translation. That's why we like analog. That's why the ear/brain uses it too.