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In Reply to: Why does Vinyl sound better than SACD? posted by newbie on December 9, 2001 at 16:25:05:
hi newbie,i may be walking into a sucker punch here, but here goes;
i am no scientist, but professional audio people i have put this question to have answered me that for digital to have the RESOLUTION of a master tape it would require 7 or 8 times the sampling rate now used for 192/24 or sacd. something like 2,000khz or whatever that would convert to for DSD. vinyl is like half that. notice i am not saying that resolution is the only issue. clearly, master tape and vinyl have more inherent noise and especially with vinyl less frequency extension. but where the rubber meets the road these analog systems have less gaps between bits of information, and more information means closer to real. maybe not as "accurate" as our machines can measure, but the true measurement is our ears, and they vote for analog (at least mine do).
when digital music storage and delivery systems are developed with this 7x higher resolution for the masses, or maybe something somewhat less, then i would expect that digital will be much better.
an analogy i have heard is that digital is like a clean mirror broken into many small pieces and glued back together. when you look into it the image is accurate but missing something, no matter how small the pieces are. analog is like a dirty mirror. when you look into it you see something whole and real if not perfect.
enjoy
mikel
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- Re: Why does Vinyl sound better than SACD? - mikel 12/9/0116:53:45 12/9/01 (17)
- Interesting, - oitzman 12:35:48 12/10/01 (0)
- So perhaps SACD/DVD-A are obsolete... - oscar 18:13:36 12/9/01 (2)
- Perhaps, with DataPlay, unfortunately. - Michi 00:08:33 12/10/01 (0)
- i agree and chose SACD too, and the next digital format...... - mikel 18:28:22 12/9/01 (0)
- Re: Why does Vinyl sound better than SACD? - M 17:45:35 12/9/01 (1)
- Re: Why does Vinyl sound better than SACD? - mikel 18:35:14 12/9/01 (0)
- that broken mirror is an interesting analogy, mikel - sgb 17:44:10 12/9/01 (0)
- Good analogy, that last one! (nt) - Peter 17:41:30 12/9/01 (0)
- Re: Why does Vinyl sound better than SACD? - lenardd 17:29:22 12/9/01 (8)
- yes, analog clocks do have more resolution than....... - mikel 18:47:26 12/9/01 (7)
- Isn't tape resolute down to the molecular level... - SACD Enthusiast 20:35:10 12/9/01 (2)
- Re: Isn't tape resolute down to the molecular level... - Michi 08:01:32 12/10/01 (0)
- Re: Isn't tape resolute down to the molecular level... - mikel 21:19:54 12/9/01 (0)
- If you take that logic to the extreme then....... - saywhat 20:17:07 12/9/01 (0)
- You completely ignored.... - SimonTJU 20:10:21 12/9/01 (1)
- resolution is different than accuracy....... - mikel 21:08:36 12/9/01 (0)
- Watching too many reruns of Matrix ? (nt) - oscar 19:03:40 12/9/01 (0)
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