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

Maghister, I’m 7 years behind in understanding, perhaps a few more years in age, wasted not understanding audio to an audiophile stage. Have a good one. 😀

Thanks for your kind words...

I wish you the best for this coming year....

More than one recording engineer has said to me "most people don’t realize how much manipulation goes into making something sound natural." I could not stand to listen to consumer digital formats when introduced. Digital has gotten much better, not just because the playback gear has improved, but I think engineers (I’ll lump the recordists, mixers and mastering engineers under one roof) seem to better understand how to capitalize on its strengths.

I don’t have the energy or inclination to argue analog v digital at this point, though I was a dyed-in-the-wool analog guy for many years. Now, I’m agnostic.
A recording sounds "right" to me or it doesn’t.
One telltale for me is timing from the initial attack of a note to the harmonic overtones and decay, taken together with the ambience of the environment in which the recording was made.
I don’t get to hear that on many recordings because it isn’t there- lost, somehow, in how the thing was mic’d (or DI’d from an electronic instrument) or set in an isolation booth or somehow lost in the recording process somewhere.
Given how hard it is to create the illusion of real music in a room that is typically not designed for the purpose and reproduced over gear that is relatively affordable by consumers, I’m not surprised when the illusion falls down. To the contrary, I’m surprised that it works so well so often.

whart

interesting post ... my experience resemble yours...

Merry Christmas....

The scientists call it Euphoric Distortion... that's the scientific term explaining why we humans prefer an analog sound, our ears and brain prefer the distortion from a vinyl record more then the distortion from a digital source. Why else would a person spend a ton of money on turntables, cartridges, phono preamps, record cleaning machines, brushes, anti magnetizers and anti static gear?
IMO digital sounds just as good, less work, less money and sounds closer to the actual recording, unfortunately it just leaves you feeling unsatisfied.
Long live VINYL.

Merry Christmas

My DAC has various filters that can make it sound like tubes or a vinyl recording. Considering that all newer music is recorded digitally then why would you not listen to it the way it was meant to be? You can make a digital source sound however you like. Vinyl sounds like uh vinyl.