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


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

I am sharing this for those with an interest. I no longer have vinyl, but I find the issues involved in the debates to be interesting. This piece raises interesting issues and relates them to philosophy, which I know is not everyone's bag. So, you've been warned. I think the philosophical ideas here are pretty well explained -- this is not a journal article. I'm not advocating these ideas, and am not staked in the issues -- so I won't be debating things here. But it's fodder for anyone with an interest, I think. So, discuss away!

https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2019/11/25/spin-me-round-why-vinyl-is-better-than-digital/amp/?fbclid...
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I think these forums are often just a window for lonely older men to try to connect with others..... 
@mahgister -- you’re telling us about your system again. Can we confine conversations a bit to the topic? It really does get long...
Sorry you dont get my point right, but i dont speak " explicity" about my components, except saying that they are low cost, but about the impact a bad embeddings can have on a very costly system...

Perhaps you dont like my "long" posts but it was never about my system but about the way a bad acoustical room can impact a digital or analog system....I spoke about the way to embed ANY system NOT about my particular system ... Do you understand that? 

The adress in my post was about an interesting youtube example not about my "ordinary" but well embed system...





I think these forums are often just a window for lonely older men to try to connect with others.....
what do you think most forums are? a free advertisement for electronic parts by ordinary dude that boast their amplifier? Or is it an audio engineer only forum here?

No it is a place where anybody can explain freely his experience and ideas mainly about audio for sure... Age has nothing to do with that but for sure i am old and i have time for music ....

My posts said something about exactly why for most people this debate analog/digital has no meaning.... Answer to that.... And dont give me lesson in elliptical rhetoric or about old age...




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@mahgister
Interesting you heard pretty much on this video what I did.
Thanks i am happy that someone had really read my post....

Yes i think that in this case the room treatment is catastrophic and the dac and the audio system is not well embedded if this is probably a very good dac like it seems...

Any room treatment must be adressed in a small room (unlike in a theater or vast concert hall where reflective surface and synchonization of waves dont play the same game) to the specific audio system and to the geometry and topology and content of the room...I learn myself for the last 2 years how to acoustically embed my own room and it is not a " formula" you can sell like some affirm it to be....It is different for each room....

Applying a computer formula in a small room will not do it...

Ears are Ears and we must wait for acoustical A.I. that is not sold for the moment... 😁

In this case i think a turntable would had been better, because in general analog is more robust to attack from a too cold and harsh room, not because digital is harsh in itself, but because a natural musical instrumental timbre digitalization apparatus is not a  so well spread product anyway, and the way to embed a dac  is not understood at all...like for the audio system embeddings anyway...Then even good dac need help....

But analog or digital anyway need badly mechanical, electrical and acoustical embeddings...

Thanks for your confirmation of my impression...

Like i already said this audio system in youtube is vastly superior to mine ( a low cost one) BUT is badly embedded and it is easy to listen to this fact....

I am not alone.... Thank you michelle....😊

Happy New Year....