Add my voice to the chorus, welcome back Millercarbon!
The character of analog and digital
Having just obtained some high quality analogue components, I want make some comments on the character of both analog and digital.
First of all it’s very difficult to speak of analog in general. Records vary widely (indeed wildly) in sonic character and quality. Digital recordings are much more uniform. When you play a digital file you more or less know what your getting. Of course some sound better than others, but there is a consistency of character. With records, it’s the Wild West. Variation in SQ and character are rampant.
Therefore it becomes very difficult to make generalizations on which categorically sounds better.
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The question is, and has been answered here and elsewhere ad nauseum, is what is being discussed a feature of the media or the many issues related to the recording and engineering of that recording. Judging by many comparisons between vinyl and CD, I have little faith in the skills of the geeks with hats who have an ejucaton in marketing or advertising and who pretend that they know some stuff about the fine art of producing quality music in the digital domain. In the USA there still exists capital punishment. Doesn’t work. |
To wit - grabbed a legitimate CD of Aqualung last week, and it is painful to listen to. Compared to the worn out vinyl I have from about 1971, the comparison is interesting. Ian Anderson provides a short discussion, and his voice is just perfect. So, this is not a fault of the hardware or the software, but that of the dolts who are pushing the buttons. |
@millercarbon I looked at your system. We’re talking serious level analog source. And that was compared to a CD played on the modified OPPO DVD player? Or was there another digital source that’s a bit closer to the level of your analog that you used for the comparison? Just curious. As to the character of analog and digital, in my system it’s mostly about different sound between the analog and streaming that I enjoy, although I do have few MoFi and Analog Productions albums that I prefer to streaming but those are exceptions. The two types of media have their pros and cons that have been discussed and described at length on these forums. |
@heretobuy -- Over the years I've had more stick shift cars than automatics. Right now I enjoy the hell out of my six speed manual Mazda Miata. It has the best gearbox I've ever had. Better than the ones in any of my BMWs. Certainly better than the manual trannies in my Mercedes Benzes or the Brit cars I've driven. Or the manual tranny Peugeot I rented in France. I gotta say, though, that it's still a dead heat for me between analog and digital. The game is over for me. They both win, |
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