Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"

Utter rubbish.

I’ve tried to show that vinyl records and associated equipment offer certain features of appreciation and evaluation that are unavailable in digital formats. Auditory features are warmer, richer, and deeper, and there are also tactile, visual, and epistemic features that expand the artistic platform and enrich the aesthetic experience.

There is mainly 2 groups of argument by the author of the article...

First: auditory features, warmer,richer, and deeper...

That makes no sense, because the primary musical sound phenomenon is not "warm" or "cold" or "clean" it is the accurate timbre instrument rendition and perception...And the acoustical setting of the listener room will way more impact the timbre perception than the vinyl choice versus the digital choice...The perception of depth in sound is also way more increased by acoustical room control than by choosing a vinyl versus a dac....

The writer speak also of the esthetical tactile and esthetical visual aspect of the vinyl object, but it is no more music here, it is fetichism....😊

And for the epistemic feature, if i listen music from my computer files and dac i can access way more visual and written information than the few pages of a booklet...I can activate a silent film akin to the music for example... Etc


Only one thing is true  the tactile aspect of the object is no more there, but contrary to sex, music dont need to be touch by hand... 😊

This article reflect only the writer taste absolutely nothing else...Except the sociological evident fact that compressed files are not good neither esthetically nor pedagogically ... And he is right about that because younger poor listener choose a digital format that is portable and low cost(phone) for a music that is more commercially produced than really refined...

Utter rubbish.

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« "Utter rubbish" is an argument only if we lack a gun or a brain» - Groucho Marx

I dont even know if you speak of my post or about the article... Anyway...

Merry Christmas...

I am certainly not an expert in either analog or digital recording or playback. I look at the more simplistic analysis, in that we humans are analog creatures, naturally not a bit of digital in the body (yes we can add digital items such as cochlear hearing, heart pace makers and such).
Could it be a fundamental thing (for want of a better expression) that our brains are attuned to analog more so than the sound digital zero and ones produce from the source.
Digital devices can manipulate sounds to any requirement, but to my limited understanding analog can also be manipulated (cartridges, speakers) but they are still analog, in tune with the brain.

Have I got this one way out there?   🇦🇺

i was thinking exactly the same 7 years ago...My dac was horrible and i have no clue about the way to embed, mechanically, electrically and acoustically my audio system... The sound was like all this description of digital by vinyl amateur...

But now none of these qualification apply...My lossless files are read by a very good Nos dac and mostly the acoustical setting of my room gives me a natural timbre perception...

Merry christmas to you....