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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Whatever floats your boat.
‘Both digital and analog can deliver the message.
Whichever does it better is of no consequence to me.
 Otherwise it would drive me bananas.
Wise advice....

My best to you....

I've been trying to figure out why I can listen to LPs all day long, but rarely listen to digital music for more than an album or two, for a few years now.

Granted, I am fascinated by everything turntable and everything vinyl. How these crazy plastic discs and clockwork contraptions sound as good as they do, still boggles my limited mental capacities.

One idea I have been mulling over, is the nature of the sound wave between analog and digital; the "pure sine wave" of analog vs the stepped wave of digital.

I have been led to understand that digital audio ends up as a true sine wave, but I assume the DAC computer "fills in" the material between the steps of its artificial waveforms.

Is this what happens inside the converter? Could this possibly be why many listeners prefer true analog music?

I imagine it probably has more to do with personal subjective proclivities (look at all the hipster vinyl aficionados who listen primarily to digital music stamped onto vinyl records), but still something seems very reptilian and basic, in my visceral positive response to analog sounds.

@fusian need better gear dude. I am a vinyl guy but my DAC and e.one stream rock and can listen all day.