heppie as much as I hate to pick a blue...

vinyl ads a lot of distortion and "warmth" to a sound. Its not automatically better or worse - it depends what you like.

Digital adds nothing and takes away nothing. You can have warmth on digital or not. Theres nothing inherent in vinyl / analogue except distortion. That distortion can be good/welcome or bad /unwelcome .

You can get "warmth" (distortion) through the source = vinyl/tape/digital or through the amp or through the speakers or through the original recording.

Have you listened to ECM jazz recordings on digital?

Let me put on my technical hat.

Right basically you can saturate an analogue tape, in the recording process meaning as it distorts, it distorts harmonically. That is how you get tape saturation, and that is why it sounds nice, also back when digital came out you got a lot of anti-aliasing and digital distorting, basically a clipping sound. I did Music Production for 3 years until I realised I didn't want to be sat in a dark studio getting Rickets, and that is what I learned.

Also my ex's dad worked for Denon and was invited on to the Gadget SHow on channel 5 to do a blind testing with  vinyl, mp3, and CD. The show's staff picked the Mp3 I think as best sounding!!!???

In fact I'll try find the clip.

Okay, I understand the distortion bit......but if you check out Miles' 'Lift to the Scaffold' with the echo removed (which all the new reeditions are doing) it sounds so much better.

I cannot believe anyone would pick an MP3 sound over vinyl or CD. You can't fill a room with it, impossible to DJ and maybe that's why all the pubs are empty with those shitty MP3 players?

That's the way. I wasn't picking a fight. Just wanting to stop you heading down a path spending on vinyl when it might be a decent amp or better speakers would make a difference , or changing to carefully produced digital.

Heard some great stuff over weekend on radio. guy  called joe Peterson and his Ragga muffins , sort of street African raggae covers of various stuff. All fun. Worked a treat for me. I'm trying to pick up the album now. I think the album is called Cape Town Streets.

I'm sure I mentioned the shit fights that occurred on rec.aus.music.hifi in the good old days of usenet are far far worse and serious thuan any I've ever seen on clothing forums. And all about tweeters, tubes amps, and especially wires effect on sound...... Threats of stalking charges, restraining orders, implied threats "my mates are all bikies etc",  harassing phones calls at 2am. Yup all on a nice hi if forum.

Last edited by fxh (2012-03-30 05:51:59)

Maybe Hayfever. Give him the benefit of the doubt? You should have told him to 'turn down the digital or shit's gonna get analogue.' You would have to assume a Denzel Washington in Training Day type persona and accent to make it work though.

Last edited by Liam Mac (2012-03-30 08:53:07)