Worth pursuing analog sound from digital?

mr_m
fleschler,

Totally agree with your last sentence. Just listen to some of the Rock/Pop groups of the mid seventies. Compression was in (over) abundance back then. Many recording companies were too busy trying to make those recordings sound good over your car speaker.

>>>>>Huh? Compression is a relatively recent phenomenon, the truly egregious compression started in the late 90s and is so bad today that you can see many new recordings and re-issues are “flat-lined” Dynamic Range wise, as shown on the dynamic range database. Also, car speakers have very little to do with why records and CDs are compressed. The mid seventies was actually a period of high dynamic range, as were the eighties and most of the nineties. 

Dear @john1 : I never take or took the word of other to make my statements, always are first hand experiences.

The link I posted was only as an example of an analog/LP lover that knows digital is just great !.  Got it?

R.

Dear @fleschler  : """ we hear in the analog-realm.... ", yes that's what we/I think  till I read/learned that we have an ADC next highligths about but you can read the whole article there:


"""  the ear. This small organ has quite a few surprises in store for us. We' see that it's literally crammed with equalisers and dynamic compressors, including a multi‑band one. It even includes an extremely efficient filter bank, as well as a highly sophisticated analogue‑to‑digital converter.

The Inner Ear: Multi‑band Compression, Pitch Tracking & ADCThere are two kinds of hair cells. The outer hair cells are the actual receptors. When the tectorial membrane moves, so does the hair on the the outer cells. This movement is then encoded into electrical digital signals and goes to the brain through the cochlear nerve.


With the hair cells, we come to the end of the audio path inside the ear. Hair cells are neurons, and the purpose of the outer hair cells is to convert the mechanical vibrations that come from their cilia into nerve signals. Such signals are binary (all or nothing), and seem to be completely decorrelated from the analogue signals to which they correspond. In other words, they're digital signals, and the inner hair cells are analogue‑to‑digital converters. """


Btw, @tzh21y , yes and agree with your post.


Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

I hated digital when I owned bad dacs (for me they were all bad ,too digital, harsh, piercing highs even when they were not piercing they were like craking chalk on a board even subtly like that sometines   etc)…. I owned someday a NOS dac with a minimalistic design and that was game over for me... This incredible dac was too low cost for being mass convincing... (starting point systems dac)The sound was anything but not digital...Organic and natural...Viva digital life...

Wow the record side is over already ! I haven’t finished reading the album.  That’s analog for ya.