From what I have always heard thru the years, Bill K, provided a short and precise answer. But it does add to the question: Why does vinyl sound better? It seems to have so many things against it. From the ever narrowing bandwidth from the outer groove to the inner groove, the surface noise, the tracking issues that exist just on the physical limitations of a stylus virtually banging its way side to side and up and down as it makes it way thru the groove. The list goes on, in fact Fremer addresses these issues in an article about a year or so ago. So WHY does vinyl sound so good? And now we add the pre-echo that must be present thru-out the whole playing surface, but some how we don't hear it except at the begining of a track, where it is silent enough to be heard. I personnaly am amazed at how much information a cartridge and tonearm can extract from this little squiggley groove and as much amazed at how much information is in those little squiggley grooves. And the more you can afford to spend on equipment, the more you discover. I guess that is a part of the attraction of this hobby in the first place. I paralel it to better and stronger optics and studying the stars. Who knows how much we are missing, if only we can equip ourselves better to hear or see it? Old technology sounds better than new technology, maybe it is due to our listing devices are old technology as well, our ears.
