How Science Got Sound Wrong

I think that the point is not Digital versus Vinyl "per se"...
It is only that "the hearing brain" has his own distinguishing criteria for being "happy" that does not exactly superpose themselves with the actual frontier that separate the complex and mixed analog/digital links line in audio engineering...

In a word when somebody listen to music, his ego is listening, but his brain also, and they are not exactly the same entity or reducible to the samething… Just a 2 cent remark....

That explain why some brainless twit can enjoy trash sound from a trash source, digital or vinyl, but unbeknownst to him , his brain not so much... If we understand that perhaps we can go deeper in the analysis...

If not, there is only a trivial but very "informed" superficial but very technical debate indeed, instead of the search for a truth bigger than our own opinions...My other 2 cents... My best to all...

atdavid

... So basically Cleeds you have no point at all?

Hey, atdavid , read up just a few posts and you'll find this:

... your assertion that LP isn’t "accurate" doesn’t withstand scrutiny ...

That was my point. You can't really defend the claim, so instead you defend yourself against arguments that you invent, and then claim I made.  Have a nice day.

I think sounds are like words not only some external social communicating tools... Animals communicate... Sounds and words are together programming technology of the highest order between the brain-body and the growing self...

They program through the use of the body-brain the consciousness itself, unbeknownst to the "conscious ego" of the children or the adult who listen or speak the words or the music....It is for this reason that I distinguish ego or self and brain...If not we are in the muddy waters of ignorance, be it even enlighten by some ocean of technological information or not ...


But words and sounds are like nuts that people perceived ready made by the tree like only an end result ( be it the brain-tree or the engineered system-tree) without seeing the potential complex growing of the seeds inside...

Records were a very good innovation for delivering sound as accurately as possible with the technology available in the 1950s, almost 70 years ago.

Lots has been done to squeeze the most possible out of that inherently old technology since resulting in very expensive players that go to great ends to manage the faults and inaccuracies inherent in the system. Meanwhile quality of vinyl records continues to vary widely as it always has, but cost more than ever.

Regarding accuracy, modern digital streaming is leaps and bounds beyond that. Way more people have access to very accurate sound these days, more accurate than most anyone would ever need, than ever for very modest cost.

What sounds best to each individual is still as always up in the air, what sounds good to someone is not the same as what is accurate.

Thank you science and technology!

mapman

Lots has been done to squeeze the most possible out of that inherently old technology since resulting in very expensive players ...

Quite so!

Way more people have access to very accurate sound these days, more accurate than most anyone would ever need, than ever for very modest cost.

Agreed!

Thank you science and technology!

Right - science and technology have made these improvements possible in both analog and digital formats.