This is Too Funny Vinyl is Still King

I remember watching that when it originally aired on MTV (or Empty V as I like to pronounce it). Maybe I'll break of my ORG reissue of Nevermind and compare it to the CD this weekend just for fun.

Interesting theories but they did't stand up to technical scrutiny then and they still do not today. I suspect the main reason that analog works well is that you can actually hear below a noise floor (well known that you can hear up to 15 db below a noise floor). It is the higher noise floor (hiss) that allows you to hear or focus on certain nuances. It certainly changes the presentation adding a slightly greater emphasis to background details - instead of disappearing below audibility as they do on CD the noise floor remains modulated by the nuances allowing our ears to pick it up. Analog tape is similar. Think of it like a background for a painting or photo - what is in the background can certainly affect what you see even if the subject of the photo or painting is unchanged.

Stickman451-Thanks, that is fun to see.

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-Mikey

Michael Fremer was never young. His real name is Abel. He faked his death and framed his brother Cain for his murder.

When looking closely at the CD format, problems seem to occur when there are massed high frequencies. It doesn't seem like CD sampling rates could properly record things like massed strings. High frequency harmonics would seem to be lost or misread. But that's just my opinion. CD proponents would say that those differences in hf harmonics are not in the audible spectrum (I think they are). But they would be if the resulting [erroneous] recorded signal would be in the audible spectrum. Is this the grain we hear in massed violins on CDs?

I agree with Shadorne's noise floor comments.