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

No, I most certain don’t conflate the two. Digital perfectly preserves timing in the analog time domain with well sub nanosecond accuracy, down even into 10's of picoseconds. Analog recording formats by virtue of their significant mechanical flaws, introduce huge variations in timing.

In your dogmatic rant you conflate 2 different concepts of timing, the timing of bits flows, and the acoustical timing events linked to the definition of "musical timbre"...

Digital perfectly preserves timing in the analog time domain

The timing we speak about in the formation of timbre is an acoustical concrete perceived phenomenon in a room first with ears in the room, not first a sound phenomenon in analog format or digital format....

The acoustic of a room is not an analog format... The speakers/room analog waves timing needs the Fourier analysis of the ears/brain to become a perceived phenomenon..... Real sound phenomenon are not analog nor digital, they are the 2 at the same time....And none is superior to the other except in your head ....

You look like the shaman in amazonia who shrink heads, you shrink sound phenomena in 2 competitive formats, analog OR digital, and declare one superior to the other....



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This is just trying to paint a fantasy brush onto reality. You don’t store sound, you store a signal, either analog of digital. The analog signal will mash up timing, frequency information, timbre, anything at all you want to use to describe said signal. Digital does not. I do declare one format superior because I was involved in recording for decades, all through the format transition, initially squeezing what we could out of analog, and have sat listening to the live feed from the microphone, tape loops, and digital loops, and can state, as would almost all my colleagues over the years, that modern digital is effectively exactly what is coming off the microphone, while analog tape, and any subsequently any analog playback after much processing, is a colored version of what was picked up.


I don’t think you understand digital well enough to understand that "timing" as it applies to analog audio signals can be perfectly captured by digital, whereas analog formats are seriously flawed.

You my prefer the colorations introduced by an analog format, and perhaps you will equate those colorations to be more natural or real because you like them, but liking something is not the same as accurate reproduction.

The timing we speak about in the formation of timbre is an acoustical phenomenon in a room first with ears in the room, not first a sound phenomenon in analog format or digital format....

The analog signal will mash up timing, frequency information, timbre, anything at all you want to use to describe said signal. Digital does not. 

Thats the funniest thing I've ever seen on this forum.
If you understood nyquist theory and how d/a converters work, you would know that digital is a little bit out all of the time - rounding errors from the sine x/x in red book CD, endemic in every calculation, are just the tip of the problem.

This is just trying to paint a fantasy brush onto reality. You don’t store sound, you store a signal, either analog of digital.

The real concrete sound in a room is not a signal, digital OR analog, it is a phenomenon which can be reduced to a format for recordering purpose but can never be only a digital or an analog phenomena only... The ears hearing sound in a room use the 2 aspects of the phenomenon not only one analog AND digital...

My thesis is simple: recording or listening format are different not superior....

Why ? because ultimately musical timbre is a human recognition phenomenon implicating not only what you called analog signals or digital signals but and it is what i affirm, the 2 simulataneously... It is the reason why in some conditions, some human prefer and vouch for analog; they are not right or wrong...

I repeat i never afirm that analog vinyl is superior at all... But i cannot go with you in the absolute superiority of digital.... World is complex and any room/brain is a world in itself...

In a word: sound phenomena need the 2 aspects to be described or recorded: digital and analog... A stick has 2 ends...



« A polygon with an infinite number of faces never equal a circle» Nicholas Of Cusa

« Sound is like a rolling ball... No, sound is like a bouncing ball... No, wait a minute sound is a soliton wave in a room or perhaps only in the brain »- Harpo Marx acoustical discoveries

« It is all that at the same time brother, it is called timing»-Groucho Marx