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

The most interesting question for me is why it is that some are so hellbent on trying to convince me that I don’t hear what I do hear.

Scientism is the superstition or fetichism of the reality of material object absolutely outside of consciousness...

Someone posess by that materialist metaphysic cannot understand qualitative essential dimensions of experience otherwise than negating  them or reducing them to "subjective" nothingness...

Music is only bits for them....

Tomorrow A. I. will play piano better they said...




Then when you used your own ears experience you commit for the scientism the sin of deluding yourself....

Who can forgive you?




Goethe corrected Newton about his corpuscular metaphysical theory of colors but the lesson was never learned... Goethe succeed in describing colors phenomena and grounding his theory in the first physiologycal explanation of the experience...

But Goethe is a bit hard to chew for most....


Ansermet is the Goethe of music..... 😊

My best to you....


«Musical nuances are not made of bits, like the colors are not made by the Newton corpuscules» Anonymus Smith




« Do you dare to say that 2 equivalent mathematical objects can anyway differ ?» In real life yes.....

« I am sure now that you dont know the Fourier analysis translation of these 2 objects....» 😁

Folks can talk all they want but which has better sound quality. To me that's not really the important difference. The difference between digital and vinyl is a lot more like the difference between using central heat to warm your home and lighting a fire in the fireplace. It's largely aesthetic. 

I never argued except for personal convenience  for a supposedly absolute superiority of the analog or digital format....

I argued against the dogmatic affirmation by the power of numbers of absolute digital superiority.... Precisely because the human ears experience decide first.....

I use digital myself but understand those who chose analog....No conditions of the experience are the same....

audio2design, you continue to accuse me of making things up.   I don’t make things up.  My patience with your arrogance runs thin. Yours is precisely the attitude that I come across on the part of many engineers who rely on theory because they don’t have particularly good ears (at best) and even worse, considering their profession, do not have good sensibilities when it comes to music and performance.

mahgister puts it well:

**** I argued against the dogmatic affirmation by the power of numbers of absolute digital superiority.... Precisely because the human ears experience decide first.....****

Exactly.

Now, you should spend a little less energy on trying to be right (you are not) and a little more on reading what others have written more carefully.

**** I am also saying your claim that recording engineers think analog/vinyl is more "real" on average is made up ****

Nowhere did I write anything of the sort. Quite the opposite:

**** I could also point out and expound on the fact that recording engineers and musicians are often at odds as to what sounds closer to real (one reason so many recordings sound subpar) ****

He does not have the culture and deep philosophical understanding necessary to even pose the problem...

He think that measured "accuracy" always rules over ears accuracy, without being conscious of the implicit epistemological fallacy : a circle of measured numbers without human interpreters means nothing....


He essentially accuse you of lying, he accuse even a mathematician, who wrote in simple terms for general public about his own experience between digital and analog without condemning the turntable, to be unable to understand Nyquist theorem... Which is a ridiculous accusation against any mathematician...

He accuse me of ignorance in audio but that is relatively true then i will not object, but it is certainly also his case in many aspects of audio unbeknownst to him....


I dont know why i was arguing with him, except i miss my job, counselling students and discussing about their readings...Mathematics included .... 😊 i remember that i argued with him the first time because i dont like condemnation of ignorance about all turntable lovers...

All his posts demonstrate that he does not have a clue about the modelling timbre concept ( he call this euphonic subjective then unreal colors 😄) and microphones then what could we say ?.... If myself ignorant in acoustic can spot these holes, his knowledge is not what he think it is........

Anyway....

I will not ask you which is your musical instrument by discretion but 😋i guess it is piano.... 

My deepest salutations...