How Science Got Sound Wrong

terry9,

Here is a paper, it is about ultrasonic imaging, but that is simply a scaling issue w.r.t. frequency. It has nice graphs that clearly illustrate the ability to extract timing information and shows them as a function of sample rate. Even at a relatively low SNR, 30db, the error in extracting timing is very small. The oversampling in this case is 20x the frequency of the waveform:  https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:995652/FULLTEXT01.pdf

I don’t agree with Michael Fremer on his Analog bias , that’s very flawed 
for great digital in several areas surpasses analog 
great digital such as Lampizator with very good usb cable using Vacuum tubes 
is key to bring the so called analog sound , if properly designed ,just because it has a tube doesnot make it good .  Technologies especially digital are getting 
better every year ,vinyl  you have to buy master pressings ,not your 30 year old scratched records , same goes for quality digital. DSD recordings in many ways surpass good vinyl especially per dollar spend in comparison.
that I am convinced having had both. Vinyl now is very time consuming .
for me I don’t see any advantages . 

Thank you, David. I've obviously got some reading to do - but after I get my newest amplifiers working! 

Thanks for all the input. It had been about a month ago when I first read the article. FWIW, I am not  an electronics  tech or engineer. I am a music lover who loves to hear it as good as what I can afford. Many of you have given technical reasons for your disagreement. Great. I'm glad you are here (well.. so far) Even though  you  go way beyond my understanding I still learn something. I just know what I hear. And I'm pretty technical in how I come to my conclusions of what sounds best to me. And there is the rub...  what's best to me. The biggest question I have is this. How can an objective quantitative answer be given to such a subjective subject as music, its reproduction and one's interpretation of what they hear? Oh sure, we can give some ideas or thoughts about it. But our knowledge only goes so deep. One may look at figures and speculate what should be heard. But can we absolutely know what IS heard by 100 different people listening to the same music on the same equipment? I don't think so. My $.02 worth.