Re: Vinyl vs CD.. here we go again
Reply #6 – 2020-08-04 23:29:47
Here is a post about playing a record through an analog-to-digital-to-analog connection and nobody could tell the difference between that and the direct-analog sound. (He didn't make a CD and he doesn't mention what resolution was used.) From the level of ajinfla's hardware expertise, I wouldn't doubt it as being a valid test. Though he only proved that vinyl, at most, may sometimes, under special circumstances*, sound like digital audio, and that alone can only carry all those well-known digital audio detractors' wacky claims so far - nothing in the sense of "better than digital"! *circumstances which are far from ordinary and cheap - both regarding the time and money spent with such "quests for perfection" from something which obviously is not perfect, as one can infer from reports such as this one, detailing an analogue-to-digital transfer (can we can them rips?) from a Nirvana MTV Acoustic LP - an album which on CD has very good to great audio quality, IMHO. And let us not even get started on the supposedly wider DR they usually claim to get from such rips! So why bother? Hasn't it ever gone for a split second through these people's minds the "if ain't broken, don't fix it" saying while they're at it!?Technical Informations[sic] Hannl"limited" Record Cleaning Machine with Rotating Brush Music Hall MMF 5.1 Turntable with ProJect Speedbox Goldring 1042GX reference Cartridge Belari VP-129 Tube Phono PreAmp with Sylvania 12AX7WA Tascam US-144 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface Interconnections by "Goldkabel" Wavelab 5 recording software Vacuum Cleaning > TT > Belari > Laptop > Wavelab 5.01 (24/96) > manual click removal analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset)